Allied for Climate Transformation By 2025 (ACT2025)

Right now, almost 3.6 billion people live in countries highly vulnerable to climate impacts.  An alarming wave of recent data shows how close we are to surpassing the 1.5 degrees C temperature threshold — the guiding star for climate action. Unless urgent action is taken, climate change impacts, from raging wildfires and deadly floods to megadroughts and record heat waves, are set to get worse. These shifts in the climate are undermining the world’s food, water and energy sources, threatening human health and causing costly damage to livelihoods, infrastructure and economies.

While climate change affects everyone, it disproportionately impacts vulnerable developing countries. For them, climate change is not a distant threat but an existential crisis unfolding in real time. To fight its impacts, these countries are putting forward bold commitments and pioneering innovative solutions to enhance resilience, accelerate the transition to clean energy and drive sustainable economic growth, all while keeping equity at the heart of national climate planning. However, most major emitters have yet to fulfill sufficiently ambitious goals, meaning vulnerable countries face even greater climate risks in the future. This injustice has eroded trust and solidarity among nations. Yet there are a growing number of untapped opportunities for climate action that would greatly benefit from building bridges, enhancing trust and improving understanding among countries.

The Allied for Climate Transformation by 2025 (ACT2025) consortium is a unique coalition representing voices and expertise from around the world — people committed to understanding and amplifying the climate needs and priorities of vulnerable countries and ensuring they are prioritized at UN climate negotiations. The consortium convenes key stakeholders to determine how to design just and ambitious outcomes at these negotiations that will rebuild trust, foster solidarity and drive greater climate action on the ground. The ultimate goal is to promote a prosperous, low-carbon and climate-resilient future for all.

The consortium aims to:

• Amplify and leverage the voices of the vulnerable to effectively influence decisions.
• Foster collaboration and a renewed sense of solidarity and trust among the stakeholders needed to achieve ambitious and just climate goals.
• Identify areas of convergence and facilitate negotiating breakthroughs.
• Promote negotiated outcomes at the UN climate summits that are clear, ambitious, equitable and balanced, while holding countries accountable for their climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.
• Champion the pursuit of climate policy goals despite global political and economic challenges.
• Support existing coalitions and empower new and emerging ones that gather progressive countries and stakeholders.
• Promote a narrative of shared prosperity and a vision for a collective future that is ultimately safer, low-carbon and climate resilient for all.

ACT2025 seeks to achieve these goals by creating safe spaces to test ideas and approaches, producing analyses, and driving public communications and targeted outreach.

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Project Partner Experts

Mark Bynoe

Assistant Executive Director, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre

Chukwumerije Okereke

Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development at AEFUNAI

Saleemul Huq [In memoriam]

Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh

Tony La Viña

Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations, Manila Observatory, Philippines

Mohamed Adow

Director, Power Shift Africa

Felipe Arango García

Executive Director, Transforma

Gabrielle Swaby

Diplomacy and Partnerships Manager, ACT2025, WRI