Strengthening International Cooperation on Climate

Reaching the Paris Agreement target of holding warming to 1.5 degrees C will take both major emissions cuts by 2030 and ambitious commitments to climate finance and just energy transition for the decades beyond.

We work to build the political and political will to do it.

Under the Paris Agreement, countries are due to submit national climate action plans for the next decade – known as NDCs 3.0 – in 2025. We aim to seize this moment of opportunity and build demand for aggressive NDCs that can meet our Paris goals and stop rising temperatures.

In particular, we focus on wealthy nations with the responsibility for the bulk of global emissions and the resources to lead on energy transition and climate finance.

The world can only meet our Paris Agreement targets together. And yet, too many developing nations – living with devastating climate impacts they did nothing to create – lack access to fair credit terms or finance necessary to pursue clean energy development without adding to crushing debt burdens.

We attack this issue from two angles. First, we work to build pressure on the wealthy G20 nations primarily responsible for greenhouse gas emissions – and mandated to provide climate finance - to increase fair financing for clean energy projects in Global South countries.

Second, we work to reform pivotal financial institutions like World Bank and other multilateral development banks. Our goal is to not only shift funding flows from fossil fuels to clean energy and adaptation projects but also attract greater levels of private investment. All on terms favorable to receiving nations.

In theory, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) creates a process for progress on climate action. Each year, nearly 200 countries party to the UNFCCC meet for UN COP climate talks to discuss and accelerate global efforts toward the Paris Agreement goals of holding warming to 1.5 degrees C.

In practice, the current format allows a small number of petrostates and a growing number of fossil fuel interests attending the talks to limit action on fossil fuels and hold back progress for billions.

We work to expose these conflicts of interest and strengthen the COP process to become a vehicle for the ambitious climate action the world needs.