Our acceleration model

At the Climate Action Accelerator, we mobilise high social trust actors who deliver essential services to populations, in view of accelerating the implementation of science-based climate pathways. By removing barriers to action, and sharing knowledge through open communities of practice, we can contribute to the tipping of entire sectors of society towards a low carbon, sustainable, resilient future, preserving a safe and just space for humanity.

The Climate Action Accelerator strives to operationalise climate-smart pathways and bridge the knowledge gap, support organisations through pilot programmes in their transition to more sustainable practices, aligned with scientific consensus and the Paris Agreement.

This involves implementing measures to reduce emissions and environmental impact, as well as developing more resilient models to adapt to the consequences of global warming. Our initiative focuses on emphasising on integrated approaches that combine mitigation, adaptation and resilience, co-creating approaches and tools tailored to our target sectors, sharing best practices, and providing open access knowledge on how to operate within planetary boundaries while responding to population needs.

Beyond the pilot learning programmes, the need for acceleration that motivated our initiative requires scaling up to foster a shift in practices. Extracting lessons and tools from our Laboratory and building on our initial achievements, we look forward to launching a large-scale capability-building programme in autumn 2025.

This programme will aim to equip a much larger number of organisations to undertake their climate transition effectively. By focusing on the transfer of methodologies and experiences, participating organisations will have the opportunity to benefit from mutual learning, support fostering empowerment, access to toolkits and increased collaboration within a community of practice and sharing.

The Climate Action Accelerator aims to create a domino effect in its target sectors and beyond by:

• Ensuring open-source access to effective approaches & tools, such as solution factsheets, toolkits, playbooks, scientific publications and other dissemination platforms.
• Tipping systemic players to ensure sectoral policies, professional practices, funding and programming frameworks support low carbon, sustainable operating models and strengthen resilience. Players include funding institutions, the UN, international organisations and national actors.
• Boosting implementation with game-changing collaborations, allowing to overcome shared challenges and accelerate transformation in high impact areas, for instance in supply, technical aspects and progress tracking.

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