At COP30, the Global Climate Action Partnership enters a new era of faster climate implementation. Join us to see how shared knowledge and proven solutions drive results for climate and the SDGs.

A demonstration of Guatemala’s open-access energy statistical modules enabling better planning, transparency, and climate action.

An event spotlighting the Pakistan's Prime Minister’s Youth Programme’s efforts to empower young Pakistanis in leading climate action.

This event will explore how renewable energy can serve as a unifying driver across SDGs 7, 13, 3, 2, 1, 8, 6, 5 and 17 to advance resilient, inclusive, low-carbon development

Mobilizing capital markets and PPPs to finance climate innovation and social justice in developing countries through sustainable finance solutions.

This event explores how countries can use tailored analysis to develop smart industrial policy that advances just transition and economic competitiveness.

Open waste burning persists across the Global South, harming health and climate. This session explores key actions, partnerships, and enabling conditions to eliminate the practice worldwide.

This event will showcase and foster strategies for effective climate action in SIDS

To more efficiently facilitate the global shift towards decarbonization for a sustainable climate, Energy Transition will be discussed highlighting digital technologies that can facilitate deployments

A climate-resilient amphibious home in Bangladesh uses low-carbon, nature-based materials and integrated food, water, and energy systems to cut emissions, enhance livelihoods, and withstand climate disasters.

With ClientEarth, WWF, and a representative of the Government of Vanuatu, we'll be exploring what the ICJ ruling means for governments seeking clarity on their climate obligations, and how COP30 marks an era of implementation across the SDGs and NDCs.

A technical side event showcasing how LLDCs Eswatini and Uganda are integrating climate resilience into development planning to advance SDGs and NDCs.

This session will highlight the importance of integrating health into Nationally Determined Contributions to strengthen climate action, population wellbeing, and sustainable development.

This Side Event will discuss the capabilities of the SIDS Global Data Hub as a tangible means to leverage space-derived data and geospatial solutions in accelerating climate resilience for SIDS.

Join our session online or in person to hear directly from community groups from key rainforest countries highlighting their struggles and solutions in each part of the world; as well as sharing tools and resources for practical support to community activists through the Zovu platform.

This event will showcase examples of collaboration between international organizations and Member States, and explore future frameworks for joint efforts.

Approaching the second GST & the end of the 2030 Agenda, this event explores how the climate regime can be strategically recalibrated, not reinvented, to drive stronger, more integrated climate-development outcomes through 2030 & beyond.

Explores how gender-transformative energy and climate strategies empower women, drive innovation & sustainability, boost economic benefits, and underscore gender data to track progress.

This high-level event will officially launch the first pilot projects of the Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund - UNHCR’s flagship climate finance mechanism linking carbon markets to clean cooking and reforestation in refugee-hosting areas. With implementation underway in Uganda and Rwanda, the session will spotlight how these investments deliver measurable co-benefits, including reduced pollution, improved nutrition, and ecosystem resilience. Panelists will discuss implementation pathways, displacement inclusion under Article 6.4, and the case for directing nature-based climate finance to fragile, underserved contexts.

The event will explore how integrated renewable energy systems drive resilient, equitable, and secure economies, showcasing how renewables power development, industrialisation, and wellbeing, especially in developing countries..

This UNIDO side event will explore how innovative technologies can accelerate the global energy transition and drive sustainable industrial development. It will highlight partnerships, financing mechanisms, and technology solutions to foster inclusive and climate-resilient growth.

Advertising, media & information integrity experts explain how measures to strengthen information integrity can help bolster public interest media, sustain quality journalism & benefit the bottom line.

Climate action is most effective when the local and global efforts become synergized. The session will present the case that localizing SDGs in many municipalities proves to be the important bottom-up exercises to implementing the principles of global governance related to climate action while informing local good practices to the rest of the world to stimulate similar initiative through appropriate channels. Actual practices in local cities and communities in Japan will be introduced/ which aim to go beyond the conventional “sustainability” goals to achieve “Net-Positive” impact in addressing local challenges.

On the road to universal energy access in Latin America, the session will emphasize community participation, innovative financing, and youth leadership as the key drivers to bridge the last mile.

This event is to bring together key stakeholders from government, industry, civil society, and international organizations to discuss how to advance climate tech solutions for the energy-water nexus. By focusing on integrated technologies, resilient infrastructure, and adaptive policy frameworks, the event seeks to highlight innovative approaches and best practices that support climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as sustainable resource management.

A multistakeholder event to accelerate universal energy access and a just transition toward achieving SDG7 by 2030 ahead of its 2026 global review.

This dialogue brings together members of the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs (HLAB) to explore how innovation, governance, and public purpose can converge to deliver real progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. As the world races toward 2030, implementing the Paris Agreement and advancing climate-related SDGs will depend on rethinking how states, markets, and citizens collaborate to generate public value—not just profit. Speakers will discuss how mission-oriented policies, science-based targets, and inclusive environmental governance can accelerate just transitions that leave no one behind. 

This session will focus on practical pathways to scale green hydrogen deployment in developing markets by exploring solutions to overcoming cost, regulatory, and financing barriers, along with highlighting opportunities for regional leadership, especially across Africa and the broader Global South.

The world today is at a crossroads whether we choose to totally transform our mindset and the way of life or to pursue modest improvement in climate action without significantly changing the fundamental dynamism of status quo. In view of the magnitude of climate challenges, pursuing sustainability goals is only a necessary condition. More innovative and ambitious goal of “regenerating” the world needs to be explored as a sufficient condition for bridging the world truly to the better future. Many examples of actual business innovations, including the initiatives for human resource training, for sparking “regenerative impacts” will be introduced, coupled with the voices of youth leaders as they advocate their visions for the future.

UN DESA, CREIA, and Global Solar Council are launching the new flagship report titled PV+ and Opportunities for South-South Cooperation: Solar Energy Use for Sustainable Development. This report highlights integrated solar solutions for sustainable development in emerging and developing regions. This research effort promotes the deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems integrated with productive and social sectors such as agriculture, buildings, and transport - an approach termed “PV+.” The event will explore how PV+ applications can drive economic transformation, improve living standards, and help avoid carbon lock-in by enabling clean energy access across low- and middle-income countries.

This session explores how diverse knowledges, alongside the IPCC and IPBES, can inform just aspirations of mobility and rootedness in climate-resilient futures.

Why sustainable hydropower is required for the energy transition

This panel aims to explore how companies can scale investments to support NDCs and bridge the multi trillion dollar financing gap.

Bridging FfD4 to COP30, this session explores how to align finance and policy frameworks to close climate, nature, and gender gaps, ensuring fair, inclusive, and sustainable global action.

Showcasing people-led and Indigenous-led climate and SDG action through ancestral knowledge, land rights, and people-led monitoring to drive justice, resilience, and global-local policy transformation.

A technical dialogue at COP30 on advancing resilient, low-carbon, and biodiversity-aligned power infrastructure across Brazil and Latin America through regulatory innovation and digital transformation.

This event highlights how youth and HEIs can drive LNOB implementation in VLR/VNRs, showcasing city-level collaboration and securing concrete commitments for youth-led SDG action. 

This 60-minute moderated panel will feature faculty experts and student leaders exploring the critical role of North American higher education in using knowledge creation and interdisciplinary initiatives to accelerate climate action, fulfill the Paris Agreement and SDG 4, and foster student agency and community solutions.

Showcasing inclusive clean cooking solutions from India, Indonesia, and Central Africa that advance the clean energy transition, empower women, and accelerate progress toward the SDGs.

A dynamic dialogue on connecting loss and damage responses with SDG frameworks to drive resilience and inclusive progress.

At COP30, aquatic foods take center stage in the Climate Action Agenda for the first time. This panel explores strategies to equip projects in fisheries and aquaculture with the capacities, technologies, and funding needed to realize their potential as nature-based climate solutions.

This panel will showcase how NDCs lack enough ambition in securing gender equality within their national climate plans. Speakers will unpack the gaps in NDCs and spotlight strategies for meaningful inclusion that drives SDG 5.

This event will look at how cities facing climate challenges can apply the lessons of the new "World Urbanization Report" from UN DESA.

BioDB is a platform and data hub for measuring, monitoring and promoting the protection of wildlife across the world. Its Nature Conservation Index assess country-level conservation under four key pillars: land management, biodiversity threats, capacity and governance, and future trends.

This event will explore how ICAO’s ACT-SAF programme fosters multistakeholder partnerships to accelerate aviation’s clean energy transition, contributing to various SDGs.

This high-level event aims to foster international and institutional exchanges on knowledge, practices, challenges, and opportunities of gender-responsive climate actions and advancing gender mainstreaming efforts in climate actions, including those actions in China. The event will highlight diverse national experiences, policy approaches, programmatic initiatives, and innovative solutions, and aims to generate actionable insights and commitments to accelerate gender-responsive climate action across national, regional, and global levels.

Connecting global youth, education, and innovation to advance climate solutions and SDG progress from Belo Horizonte Youth Declaration to the world.

This interactive workshop explores how youth initiatives can drive real transformation and how they can be supported with practical tools to weave our sustainable futures.

Exploring how global climate governance reform can support locally led resilience, linking multilateral innovation with lessons from African cities.

A panel sharing insights from policy engagement, local innovation, and community action that align with SDG 7

How can ethics and shared values transform decision-making, cultures, and systems to achieve sustainable development? Making ethics guiding principles can shift unsustainable patterns and design fairer, more resilient systems.

Join leaders and communities showcasing real clean energy solutions that improve lives, restore ecosystems, and drive a just energy transition across Central America.

This balanced and constructive panel discussion will explore strategic interventions aimed at mitigating the impacts of BCAs, safeguarding low-income and developing countries’ access to export markets, whilst advancing its transition toward a low-carbon, competitive economy.

The “Promise of 1.5℃” campaign, a collaboration with the UN, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK and private TV stations, and new climate change educational materials using anime will be shared globally.

Empowering youth is essential for advancing the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. This event will highlight youth empowerment and capacity-building as key strategies for climate and ocean action, with the Youth for SDGs programme as a concrete example endorsed by IOC-UNESCO under the UN Ocean Decade.

Discover how creating a new food system on plant-based production for human consumption could be an impactful way to reach the SDGs and get inspired by the experiences from 4 countries/organisations.