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The shift to a zero-carbon future is underway. It is creating good jobs, driving sustainable growth, building resilience, protecting people’s health and building a better future for us all. This platform tells stories of progress, from across the planet, being delivered by business, governments, cities, civil society, faith groups and more.

Together they show, if we pick up the pace, that this is a race we can win. Stories come from the coalition of net-zero initiatives that make up the UNFCCC’s Race to Zero Campaign, and beyond, built on a platform conceived and developed by the We Mean Business coalition.

Topic: Challenges

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Economy

Launch of the UN Race to Zero emissions Breakthroughs

High Level Climate Champions launch the Race to Zero Breakthroughs at Davos, galvanizing business leadership around specific near-term challenges across the sectors of the global economy

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
Resilience

Young people demonstrate initiative during crises

Youth groups in Satkhira have been at the forefront of supporting the impoverished, climate-vulnerable communities and building their adaptive capacities and resilience.

  • Challenges
  • Just Transition
Resilience

Ambitious plans to help two million people build resilience

From Peru to Indonesia, climate vulnerable people have acted to cope with climate change and build community resilience to natural hazards.

  • Challenges
  • Just Transition
Resilience

Understanding Resilience

Over the past decades, few concepts have gained such prominence as resilience, but the content has often lacked a clear definition.

  • Challenges
  • Just Transition
Water

On time and water

Telling the story of the Okjökull glacier in Iceland, Magnason explains why we need to start connecting to the future in a more intimate way.

  • Challenges
  • Culture
  • Supply
Water

Cities are stepping up on water

Cities are leading on ensuring a safe and steady supply of water and setting an example for others to follow.

  • Challenges
  • Policy
Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius
Cities

Keeping cities cool as the planet warms

Cities around the world are looking to innovative solutions to combat rising temperatures in urban centres, as a way to improve health, save lives and reduce dependence on electrified air conditioning.

  • Challenges
  • Demand
  • Pioneers
  • Technology
Cities

The construction sector can pave the way for a green economic recovery

We need to build our way out of the social and financial crisis provoked by COVID-19, without losing sight of our net-zero targets.

  • Challenges
  • Investment
  • Supply
  • Technology
Industry

Now is the time to decarbonize steelmaking

At this critical juncture, we must speed up collaboration and accelerate the transition towards a responsible, net zero steel industry.

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
  • Demand
  • Supply
Economy

“I want to arrive in Glasgow with a critical mass of messengers”

Chilean social entrepreneur and COP25 High-Level Climate Champion Gonzalo Muñoz on how the Race to Zero can be won. And he’s on a mission to bring a big list of business pledges to Glasgow in 2021.

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
  • Just Transition
Economy

Christiana Figueres: The case for stubborn optimism on climate

“This decade is a moment of choice unlike any we have ever lived,” says Christiana Figueres, the architect of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement.

  • Challenges
  • Pioneers
Transport

A sea-change in shipping?

Seaborne freight is one of the more challenging sectors to decarbonize, but ambition is accelerating in the race to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

  • Challenges
  • Pioneers
  • Supply
  • Technology
Economy

Navigating the nuances of net-zero targets

While net zero commitments have doubled in 2020, nuances in target implementation approaches can determine the real ambition and impact of actors’ net-zero pledges.

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
Industry

Tackling the plastic challenge

An increasing number of consumer brands are responding to the challenge of decarbonizing plastics and packaging.

  • Challenges
  • Pioneers
  • Supply
  • Technology
Cities

How cities are detoxing transportation

People around the world are demanding clean air — and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya.

  • Challenges
  • Culture
  • Pioneers
  • Technology
Industry

LafargeHolcim commits to bold climate action

LafargeHolcim has raised the bar for climate ambition in the cement industry, joining the Business Ambition for 1.5°C commitment.

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
  • Investment
  • Pioneers
Industry

Brazil’s largest aluminium co to set science-based target

Brazil’s largest aluminium producer Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio (CBA) has committed to setting a science-based target (SBT).

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
  • Investment
  • Pioneers
Industry

EDF on green growth, low-carbon infrastructure

Colin Matthews, Chairman of EDF Energy and co-chair of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group, urges UK organisations to commit to rebuilding the economy and tackling climate change.

  • Business Action
  • Challenges
  • Investment
  • Pioneers
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