We deepen knowledge and generate interest in new governance for climate action.

The Future of Climate Cooperation played a key role in ensuring that the Declaration on Future Generations was adopted as an annex to the Pact for the Future during the Summit for the Future in New York in September 2024. This declaration is already helping to accelerate implementation of the global sustainability goals. It has re-energized the future generations agenda by formally recognising the role of future generations in decision making. In addition, the declaration identifies key actions to upgrade global governance. 

Created alongside the Paris Agreement in 2015, the UN High-level Climate Champions are appointed by each COP host tasked to mobilize action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement from business, cities, states/regions, investors, and across society as a whole. We helped convene actors and experts across the climate action ecosystem to review and refine the mandate of Champions in both 2019 and 2024, when their mandate needed renewal by the Parties to the UNFCCC. 

The Future Climate Cooperation played a key role in redesigning the ISO London Declaration in 2021, outlining reforms to key standards that would align them with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Standards affect almost every aspect of the economy. By adopting the ISO net zero guidelines, some of the member countries developed stronger national regulations.

We identify and advance reforms for the global trade, investment, and finance systems that can either remove barriers or accelerate catalytic climate action.

Key but often under-examined pillars of climate finance are financing, guarantees and insurance provided by public finance institutions. Much interest and research has been on multilateral regional development banks, but less on other important but well known public finance institutions. The creation of the UN led Net Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliance (NZECA), incubated by the Future of Climate Cooperation and launched in Dubai in December 2023 during the COP28 is filling this gap. 

We improve the coordination and cooperation of the ‘ecosystem’ of global climate action necessary to transition economic sectors with the speed, scale and justice required.

The Climate Action Ecosystem Tracking Platform, developed with Systems Change Lab, focuses on governance dimensions of transformational change to help communities to assess their capabilities systematically across capacity, connectivity, knowledge, financing and integrity to promote successful approaches. The platform also ensures that gaps are identified and that action is taken quickly to build on strengths and close the gaps. The Interactive stakeholder map helps identify key cooperative initiatives and actors active at the global level to support all stakeholders on the topic of strengthening sectoral cooperation for climate action.