The Climate Champions Team provides support to the UN High Level Climate Champions to deliver on the mandate from Parties: to drive climate action and enhance ambition by non-state actors. Working with the Marrakech Partnership and other partners, we mobilise businesses, investors, cities, regions and civil society and act as a bridge between non-state actors and national governments to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. At COP26, the two serving High Level Climate Champions launched a five year plan to deliver on the mandate from Parties. It sets out objectives and details of the tools employed to achieve them, across six key functions for the work of the Climate Champions Team for the period 2021 – 2025.

The global team is resourced to support the major campaigns Race to Zero, Race to Resilience, as well as sector-focused systems transformation using  the Climate Action Pathways,  2030 Breakthroughs and the Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA) launched at COP 27 by the COP Presidency in collaboration of the HLCs. 

We are now looking to fill a number of key roles in the team to maintain the momentum and further accelerate climate action leading up to COP29 and beyond.

The links below set out descriptions of the roles which are currently open. Please check back regularly for updates.

• Carbon Removals Lead

  As Carbon Removal Lead you will play a key role in the global carbon removal agenda, for the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions. 

  The successful candidate will likely have +10 years of experience with a strong understanding of the issues related to the agenda and a good network of actors already working on carbon removals at a system-level. 

  In this role, you will take ownership for shaping and delivering the work plan on Carbon Removals within the Climate Champions Team (CCT), under the guidance of the CCT Senior Team.

  For more information on the role, click here

  To apply, click here

  Deadline for applications is Mon 6 Jan 2025; followed by interviews with shortlisted candidates starting w/c 13 Jan 2025.

Unite behind the science: we commit to make the changes scientists tell us are needed.

Build upon the incredible work to date: we will cross-fertilize and amplify the work of the many heroes who have already committed so much to addressing climate change.

Take into account different ideas and perspectives: we’re willing to be challenged and to challenge, we look for the best in people and the best, most sound and most credible ideas, wherever they come from.

Practice stubborn optimism: we recognize the scale of the problem, combined with an absolute determination to build our way out.

Seek progress not perfection: all of us can be criticized and many of those best able to advance this issue are currently the biggest causes of it. We can’t allow cynical greenwashing, but all who are serious about tackling climate change positively will be welcomed.

Be humble and generous: we keep our egos in check and work together for the good of the whole.