Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action

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Under the leadership of the High-Level Champions, the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action supports implementation of the Paris Agreement by enabling collaboration between governments and the cities, regions, businesses and investors that must act on climate change.

Our mission is to strengthen collaboration between governments and key stakeholders to immediately lower emissions and increase resilience against climate impacts. These actions are guided by the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement and undertaken in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The focus is on environmental, economic and social system transformation, promoting higher ambition of all stakeholders to collectively strive for the 1.5 °C temperature goal and a climate-neutral and resilient world.

	High-Level Champions To connect the work of governments with the many voluntary and collaborative actions taken by cities, regions, businesses and investors, nations decided to appoint two high-level champions. Find out who they are.
	About the Marrakech Partnership Our mission is to strengthen collaboration between governments and key stakeholders to immediately lower emissions and increase resilience against climate impacts. See the history of non-Party stakeholder engagement, and the Marrakech Partnership background information.
	Strategic Engagement The Marrakech Partnership engages in a variety of activities, including Regional Climate Weeks, the organization of meetings at Conferences of the Parties, the Global Climate Action Summit, the technical examination process on mitigation, etc.
	Climate Action Pathways The Climate Action Pathways outline the longer-term vision for a 1.5-degree climate-resilient world from the perspective of non-Party stakeholders and sets out actions needed to achieve that future.
	2030 Breakthroughs The 2030 Breakthroughs pinpoint specific tipping points across a range of sectors within the areas that must be achieved by 2030 to keep on track with the Pathways’ vision. They include a challenge for at least 20 per cent of key players across sectors to join Race to Zero, thus demonstrating sectoral support for the necessary transformation. The idea is that, by generating enough momentum among a critical mass of actors within a sector, the pace of systemic change picks up to the point of no return.
	Breakthrough Agenda The Breakthrough Agenda was launched by 45 world leaders at COP 26 and is a commitment to work together this decade to accelerate innovation and deployment of clean technologies, making them accessible and affordable for all. To kick start this Agenda, countries endorsed the goals of making clean technologies and sustainable practices more affordable, accessible, and attractive compared to their alternatives by 2030 in the power, road transport, steel, hydrogen and agriculture sectors.
	Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda Recognising that progress towards adapting to climate consequences and enhancing resilience is crucially needed, the COP 27 Presidency presented the Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda in partnership with the High-Level Champions and the Marrakech Partnership. It portrays a total of 30 global adaptation outcome targets by 2030 that are urgently needed to increase the resilience of four billion people to accelerate transformation across five impact systems: food and agriculture, water and nature, coastal and oceans, human settlements, and infrastructure, and including enabling solutions for planning and finance. Find the Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda here.
Credit: Pexels	2030 Climate Solutions The 2030 Climate Solutions represent an integrated framework refined by the Marrakech Partnership under the leadership of the HLCs, designed to bring together the existing 2030 frameworks and tools of the HLCs, the Marrakech Partnership and the extended network of partners and initiatives (i.e. Climate Action Pathways, 2030 Breakthroughs, Breakthrough Agenda, Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda and Race to Zero and Race to Resilience campaigns) into a comprehensive and coherent climate action roadmap to accelerate climate action through specific real economy and on-the-ground solutions by 2030. Find more information on the 2030 Climate Solutions here.
	Tracking and Recognition The Global Climate Action Portal and the Yearbook of Global Climate Action track and report the state of global climate action. In addition, a periodical report is published on the achievements of the High-level Champions and the Marrakech Partnership. Work is underway to enhance the accountability of non-Party stakeholders’ climate action. See more information here.
	Race to Zero Campaign Race To Zero mobilizes actors outside of national governments to join the Climate Ambition Alliance, which was launched at the UNSG’s Climate Action Summit 2019 by the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera. The Climate Ambition Alliance is a group of countries and non-Party stakeholders determined to follow the recommendations of science as regards climate change.
Credit: Allan Joyner_Pixabay	Race to Resilience Campaign Race to Resilience campaign aims to drive climate resilience across the world, by mobilizing action from non-Party stakeholders and ensuring that the voices of front-line communities are heard.