Grow Asia joins 132 entities in Letter to COP30 | The Decade of Implementation: Seizing the Opportunity Together

Dear COP Presidencies, Climate High-Level Champions and all Participants of COP30,

Momentum is underway and unstoppable. We are in an era of implementation, and those who want to succeed are acting – making the transition more affordable, faster, and better for everyone.

We are coalitions of doers, working with cities, financial institutions, businesses, communities, academia, civil society, and national and subnational governments, proving that transformation is not only possible, but is beneficial - creating jobs, building resilience, and opening the door to a new economy that works for all people everywhere.

We congratulate the Presidency and Climate High-Level Champions for putting implementation and the mutirão at the heart of COP30. We offer our support to future Presidencies and Climate High-Level Champions, to drive continuity, inclusivity and make the Action Agenda an ever more powerful engine for delivery year-on-year. We are not waiting. We will deliver the Plans to Accelerate Solutions through key milestones next year and return to show measurable progress, share lessons, and take the next steps in advancing implementation.

We are already delivering results in every continent: a tenfold increase in solar energy in ten years, more than 1000 clean industrial plants in development, a tenfold increase in private finance for nature in four years, tripling investment in regenerative agriculture in two years, and supporting almost half a billion people to live with enhanced resilience over five years.

Together, we have the solutions and we can close the gaps identified in the Global Stocktake in support of the Paris Agreement in this decade of delivery – from energy transition and nature regeneration to resilient finance and inclusive prosperity. We must tackle the implementation barriers to unlock investment at speed and scale and put people first to deliver the future that citizens, employees and people on the frontline want. These collaborative efforts support the delivery of nationally determined contributions and adaptation plans and should give confidence to all actors to accelerate implementation. 

Our message is clear: those who want to thrive in the rising new economy are coming together to seize the opportunities.

Join the Doers. Deliver the Future.

Signed by Global Climate Action Agenda Initiatives

Axis 1: Transitioning Energy, Industry and Transport

1. Breakthrough Agenda

2. NDC Partnership

3. Equitable Framework and Finance for Extractive-based Countries in Transition (EFFECT)

4. Global Renewables Alliance

5. Global Platform for Clean Cooking in Schools

6. Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA)

7. Mission Possible Partnership

8. WBCSD Centre for Demand Decarbonization Acceleration (CDDA)

9. Mission Innovation

10. WBCSD Zero Emission Vehicle Emerging Markets Initiative (ZEV-EMI)

11. ReNew2030

12. Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples (REP) [language]

13. TERAMED Initiative

14. International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy (IPHE)

15. COP29 Green Energy Zones and Corridors Initiative

16. Alliance for Industry Decarbonization (AFID)

17. Global Electric Cooking Coalition (GeCCo)

18. Green Grids Initiative

19. Clean Hydrogen Mission (CHM)

20. Global Offshore Wind Alliance

21. Global Commission on People-Centred Clean Energy Transitions

22. UNIDO's Net Zero Partnership for Industrial Decarbonization

23. Efficiency for Access Coalition

24. MI - Green Powered Future Mission (MI GPFM)

25. Planet Mark

26. Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP)

27. International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN)

28. Accelerating to Zero Coalition

29. Smart Freight Centre

30. The Real Urban Emissions Initiative (TRUE)

31. Mission Efficiency

32. Zero-Emission Shipping Mission (ZESM)

33. Council On Ethanol Clean Cooking (CECC)

34. Global Grids Catalyst

35. MI Integrated Biorefineries Mission for Fuels and Chemicals

36. Worldsteel

37. Clean Cooking Alliance

38. Net-Zero Industries Mission

39. Climate Group

40. UNIDO's Global Programme for Hydrogen in Industry

41. Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA)

42. e-FAST Brasil

43. ConcreteZero

44. SteelZero

45. Global Battery Alliance

46. Energy Transition Council (ETC)

47. ResponsibleSteel

48. Smart Energy Coalition (formerly EP100)

49. REN21

50. We Mean Business Coalition's Responsible Policy Engagement Program

51. Just Energy Transition Partnership - Country Platform

52. WBCSD Carbon Removal Launchpad

53. World Benchmarking Alliance

54. WorldGBC Building Efficiency, Electrification and Renewable Integration (BEERI)

    Axis 2: Stewarding Forests, Oceans and Biodiversity

55. Climate Solutions Alliance

56. Blue Azores Programme

57. Coastal 500

58. Forests Forward

59. Nature4Climate

60. WBCSD’s Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA)

61. Global Ocean Energy Alliance for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

62. The Freshwater Challenge

63. ENACT: Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for an Accelerated Climate Transformation

64. Tropical Forest Alliance

65. Nature Positive Initiative Secretariat

66. WBCSD Forest Solutions Group

67. Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

68. Restor

69. Accountability Framework Initiative

70. Grow Asia

71. Marine Biodiversity and Ocean Health Breakthrough for International Shipping

72. Acción Andina

    Axis 3: Transforming Agriculture and Food Systems

73. Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes

74. Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition (I-CAN)

75. Young Emerging Farmers Initiative

76. Instituto Regenera

77. Global Flagship Initiative for Food Security

78. Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health (CA4SH)

79. Agricultural Innovation Mechanism (AIM) for Scale

80. The Coffee Public-Private Task Force

81. FAIRR Initiative

82. One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B)

83. Regenerative School Meals

84. Clim-Eat

85. Agriculture is a Part of the Solution

86. Advancing Food Security and Nutrition through Food Recovery and Food Loss & Waste

87. LUPPA - Urban Laboratory of Public Food Policies

88. System of Rice Intensification (SRI) 2030

89. Aquatic Blue Food Coalition

90. Dairy Methane Action Alliance

    Axis 4: Building Resilience for Cities, Infrastructure and Water

91. Buildings Breakthrough

92. Global Alliance of Subnational Development Banks

93. WBCSD Built Environment Market Transformation Action Agenda

94. Zero Emission and Resilient Buildings (ZERB) Accelerator

95. WorldGBC Building the Transition

96. Food Waste Breakthrough

97. Finance Your Cities - Country Platforms for Localizing Finance

98. Global Transformation Agenda on Water Investments - Global Investment Platform

99. GBDI Global Building Data Initiative

100. ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability

101. Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA)

102. IOM Climate Mobility Innovation Lab

103. Urban Transitions Mission

104. Town Hall COP Initiative

     Axis 5: Fostering Human and Social Development

105. Decarbonizing the Built Environment through Heritage

106. Creatives for Climate

107. ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group, Focal Point

108. Higher Education Climate Network of Networks (NoN)

109. Accelerating Finance for Climate Mobility Solutions

110. Business Action Bank

111. Race to Zero for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)

112. Global Citizens' Assembly

     Axis 6: Unleashing Enablers and Accelerators, including on Financing, Technology and Capacity Building

113. Adaptation and Resilience Investment Platforms (ARIPs)

114. Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI)

115. ISOxGHG-P Partnership

116. SME Climate Hub

117. Locally-led Adaptation (LLA) Program

118. Global Circularity Protocol for Business (GCP)

119. Climate Action Data Trust

120. Carbon Accounting Alliance

121. PACT (Partnership for Carbon Transparency)

122. EmPower: Women for Climate Resilient Societies

123. Climate Investment Coalition

124. WBCSD Avoided Emissions Program

125. 10 Year Framework on Sustainable Consumption and Production (10YFP) and One Planet Network

126. Forest Agriculture and Commodity Trade (FACT) Dialogue

127. Transition Digital

128. The Roadmap for Advancing Interoperability and Comparability of Sustainable Finance Taxonomies (Taxonomy Roadmap Initiative)

129. International Transition Plan Network (ITPN)

130. Transition Digital

131. Green Digital Action

132. IIGCC

133. Earth Investment Engine