The Race is On: Net Zero & Nature Positive for Climate Action
The Climate Champions are hosting two events at London Climate Action Week on Monday 26 June 2023.
The Climate Champions are hosting two events at London Climate Action Week on Monday 26 June 2023.
Explore the impactful outcomes of ‘The Road to COP28’ event held in Dubai on 29 May, inspiring collective action for climate change in the UAE.
The latest from the Race to Zero team — from new team members to continued work to catalyze ambitious voluntary actions throughout the economy.
With five months until COP28, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion from the COP28 Presidency, H.E Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak has told stakeholders at an event in Dubai on Monday they must promote collective climate action.
It was a busy, but exciting, month for Race to Zero in April, starting with the release of the updated ‘Who’s in’ section. The campaign now has over 11,000 members committed to net zero by 2050.
Former UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP25 and COP26, Gonzalo Munoz and Nigel Topping will join a group of renowned global leaders charged with supporting the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience.
From the launch of a new Data Explorer to partners’ new reporting frameworks, it’s been a busy month for the Race to Zero campaign.
The Race to Resilience (R2R) has launched a new tool to help support the campaign’s mission to increase the resilience of four billion people living in vulnerable communities.
This year the focus for Race to Zero will be supporting the implementation of robust net zero criteria, driving systems transformation, and activating policy.
Here are just some of the highlights of Race to Zero’s main activities at COP27.
Governments representing over half of global GDP set out 12-month action plan to help make clean technologies cheaper and more accessible everywhere.
The COP26 and COP27 Presidents, the UNFCCC Executive Secretary and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP26 & COP27, Nigel Topping and Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, will open the Global Climate Action Agenda at COP27 with their event “Making Good On Promises”
The incoming Presidency of COP27, together with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, have published the calendar of the thematic programme of COP27.
Race to Resilience and Race to Zero Forum concludes with launch of adaptation & resilience breakthroughs and push for new era of climate regulation
It has been brought to our attention that there may be cause for legal concern with text in the Expert Peer Review Group’s Interpretation Guide, which accompanies the campaign’s Criteria. We therefore want to reaffirm key elements of the Criteria.
Making good on promises — proving that ambitious targets are for real and are being backed by immediate implementation — is the theme of this year’s Climate Week NYC.
Ahead of COP27 in November 2022, the incoming Egyptian Presidency of COP27, the United Nations Regional Commissions, and the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP26 and COP27 are jointly organising a series of regional forums to accelerate financial flows to the projects needed to reduce emissions, build climate resilience, and advance the 2030 Sustainable […]
ACW 2022 will be held from 29 August to 2 September in Gabon. Africa Climate Week 2022 will engage and empower stakeholders to drive climate action across countries, communities and economies.
Projected impacts and related losses and damages are set to intensify with every fraction of a degree, meaning action to address this must dramatically accelerate. The UN Climate Change High-Level Champions aim to play an instrumental part in this process.
UN-backed Race to Zero campaign updates its criteria following major international consultation with over 200 experts and civil society groups.
First launched in 2019, the Climate Action Pathways set out sectoral visions for achieving a 1.5°C resilient world in 2050, with overarching transformational milestones, and key impacts that need to be achieved to realize them.