Global coalition urges governments to boost climate ambitions ahead of 2025 deadline
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Several of the world’s largest companies, financial institutions, cities, and regions have united to urge governments to enhance their climate ambitions before the February 2025 deadline for submitting emission-reduction plans to the United Nations.
Financial Times reported that this coalition, known as Mission 2025, comprises businesses, mayors, governors, and investors and is supported by former UN diplomat Christiana Figueres.
Corporate supporters include Unilever, IKEA, and Octopus EV, with additional representation through organizations such as the We Mean Business Coalition.
Christiana Figueres led the UN’s climate change division during the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aimed to address rising global temperatures. She told the Financial Times that Mission 2025 seeks to counter the belief that accelerating efforts to combat the climate crisis is “too difficult, too unpopular, or too expensive.”
The Mission 2025 group urges governments to ensure that new national climate plans for the next decade, known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs), are robust enough to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Under the Paris Agreement, countries must submit new plans every five years, starting in 2020, with the next submissions due in 2025.
In 2023, the UN stated that the world was on track for a temperature increase of up to 2.9°C under current government pledges, which would have catastrophic impacts globally.
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Additionally, Figueres said that the extreme heatwaves occurring worldwide, including in the US, where around 100 million people were under a heat warning in June, demonstrated the critical need for ambitious NDCs.
She emphasized that such plans are “absolutely necessary” and “totally possible and deliverable.”
Figueres argued that businesses require clear policies from governments to make investment decisions, and voters also want politicians to act.
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