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High-Level Champions

Driving collaborative climate action across sectors, countries and communities.

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Connecting decision-makers across industries, cities, and communities to accelerate climate solutions.

The UN Climate Change High-Level Champions connect decision-makers across industries, cities, and communities to accelerate climate solutions that protect people, build stronger economies, and ensure a stable future. Guided by the goals of the Paris Agreement, the HLCs work to mobilize ambition and action, at the scale needed, across energy, nature, finance, and more to drive the transformations needed.

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High-Level Champions

High-Level Champions

The HLCs work with businesses, investors, and community leaders to make climate action faster and more effective, ensuring commitments turn into solutions that benefit people today and in the future.

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Campaigns

Campaigns

Uniting efforts to tackle the climate crisis, our campaigns accelerate the race to a healthier, fairer and more resilient world. Find out more and help drive change across companies, countries and communities.

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Frameworks

Frameworks

Discover our resources to support climate action, including the 2030 Climate Solutions roadmap which outlines the most effective interventions to drive transformation across key systems.

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Nigar Arpadarai
From villages to cities, from small businesses to governments, people are already rising to the occasion. Solutions are emerging in the most unexpected places, reminding us that a better world is within our reach. And in those stories, in the quiet moments of change, that is where hope takes root.

Nigar Arpadarai

UN Climate Change High-Level Champion, COP 29

Previous High-Level Champions

Find out more about previous High-Level Champions and what they and the Marrakech Partnership have achieved since 2016.

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 Gaia Vince: “When I look at the practical progress that's been made, it is in cities where the most progressive action is taking place"

Gaia Vince: “When I look at the practical progress that's been made, it is in cities where the most progressive action is taking place"

Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2025 – applications now open Applications Now Open

Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2025 – applications now open

Tuesday, 18 February 2025

The Climate Champions Team is now looking for its fifth cohort Youth Fellows, supporting the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP 29 and COP 30.

UN Climate Change High-Level Champion launches Impact Makers – a new campaign to amplify climate solutions

UN Climate Change High-Level Champion launches Impact Makers – a new campaign to amplify climate solutions

Thursday, 12 September 2024

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Egyptian Carbon Center Appointed Accelerator for the Race to Zero

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Microsoft CSO, Melanie Nakagawa: “Sustainability is a team sport”

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

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Net zero leaders: Brian Unsted on driving South Africa’s real estate sector to net zero

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