Action Agenda

What is the Action Agenda?

The Action Agenda is the pillar of the Climate Convention that mobilizes voluntary climate action by civil society, businesses, investors, cities, states and countries to scale up greenhouse gas emissions reduction, adaptation to climate change, and the transition to sustainable economies, as set out in the Paris Agreement.

Climate High-Level Champions

The role of the High-Level Climate Champions was established at COP21, in Paris. Each COP Presidency appoints a person who works in tandem with the previous Champion, mobilizing voluntary action by actors who do not negotiate agreements but who are essential to putting them into practice.

The COP30 Presidency decided to work side by side with its Champion, Dan Ioschpe, and the COP29 Champion, Nigar Arpadarai, to drive forward a single agenda.

COP30 Action Agenda Priorities

The COP30 Action Agenda introduced a framework to mobilize actors and efforts to accelerate implementation of what has already been negotiated, building on the results of the first Global Stocktake (GST-1). The Global Stocktake is the Paris Agreement tool that, in five-year cycles, assesses progress in implementing its objectives and guides a global action plan.

The COP30 Presidency translated the Global Stocktake results into six major thematic pillars and thirty key objectives, driven by multiple solutions.

The six pillars of the Action Agenda cover efforts across mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology and capacity-building:

The 30 key objectives of COP30 elevate climate action that begins and ends with people, including women and youth, among other diverse groups:

The Action Agenda also offers COP30 an opportunity to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through solutions that advance climate justice, combat hunger and poverty, and address structural inequalities, including those related to gender, race, and socioeconomic status.

We are not starting from scratch: many initiatives are already underway, and our role is to connect, support, and scale them in order to accelerate and expand climate action. To make this vision possible, 30 activation groups were created.