Global Partners

“Mayors of the world’s greatest cities are committed to delivering on the highest ambition of the Paris Agreement and are delivering bold policies for a sustainable future. Collaboration with business leaders, states, regional governments and civil society is essential to delivering on this ambitious vision. C40 Cities is proud to join this important initiative to accelerate climate action in countries around the world.”

- Mark Watts, Executive Director, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

“While national governments are vital to the transition to low-carbon, it is through collective action and collaboration between companies, investors, cities, states and regions that we will reach the pace and scale needed to truly build a sustainable economy. Data and transparency are vital to this transition, with disclosure of environmental risk and impacts being the crucial first step for action. CDP holds the richest global dataset of self-reported environmental data from companies and cities around the world, and we are seeing unprecedented action. The transformation of the global economy is already underway. Now is the time to urgently accelerate this shift to meet the goals of the historic Paris Agreement.”
 

- Paul Simpson, CEO, CDP

“The climate crisis has no borders and will require sustained efforts, global solidarity and ambitious commitments, including on long-term finance. These will only be achieved through strong cooperation among different stakeholders and civil society. Along with the Alliances for Climate Action, we aim at nurturing such an environment at the regional and national levels, building strategies that will allow climate impacts to be highlighted and stimulate the development of truly transformative climate action plans.”

- Tasneem Essop, Executive Director, Climate Action Network - International (CAN)

“The Climate Group brings together powerful networks of businesses and state and regional governments to accelerate climate action. We know that through effective collaboration at the subnational level we can shift global markets and policies towards a world of under 2 ℃ of warming.”
 

- Helen Clarkson, CEO, The Climate Group

“We have long held that inclusive dialogue and diverse perspectives create better policy solutions, and that actors at all levels must work together to tackle the climate crisis. The Stanley Center is proud to join ACAs as a global partner to help catalyze non-state and subnational action and drive impact through collaboration. We will continue our partnership with ACAs to bring a surge of momentum in climate ambition to international moments and to land those moments back in local contexts in tangible and actionable ways.”

- Keith Porter, President and CEO, the Stanley Center for Peace and Security

“Ensuring a climate safe future requires cooperation at all levels. Avina is working with non-state actors and national governments to build multi-stakeholder partnerships and the new institutional frameworks needed for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Our joint work with ACA and its members enable us to enhance scale, accelerate innovation and increase our impact building truly national movements for climate action.”

- Gabriel Baracatt, Executive Director, Fundación Avina.

“Businesses around the world are rapidly taking up the challenge to set science-based targets and taking action to help keep global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Their actions can inspire their customers and wider supply chains, creating the positive Ambition Loop we need to create a net-zero economy. Business and policy must work in synergy: business action inspires new policies, and policy implementation allows businesses to go further and faster. The ACA movement builds on these mechanics to mobilize different constituencies, whether faith groups, local governments, or universities to advocate for 1.5°C aligned climate policies. The great collaboration of the ACAs gives policymakers the confidence they need by showing they have the support of the whole of society to set the ambitious climate policy needed to reach net-zero by 2050.”

- María Mendiluce, CEO, We Mean Business Coalition

“There’s a new face of climate leadership emerging from around the world: CEOs, university presidents, civil society and leaders from local government and indigenous communities. They are demanding climate action and partnering together to accelerate implementation in key countries. This is a global groundswell and we are all in.”

- Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Leader, WWF's global climate and energy programme