Race to Zero

Subject: Environment

Context:

With the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to UNFCCC pushed back a full year – to November, 2021 – the UNFCCC’s Climate Ambition Alliance has launched a global campaign called “Race to Zero”

Concept:

• It is an “international campaign for a healthy, resilient zero carbon recovery”
• The campaign aims to codify commitments made via the Climate Ambition Alliance (CAA)

Climate Ambition Alliance 

• Climate Ambition Alliance (CAA) was launched ahead of last year’s COP25 in Madrid.
• The CAA currently includes 120 nations, 996 businesses, 458 cities, 24 regions, 505 universities and 36 investment groups that have committed to achieving zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
• Signatories are responsible for 23 percent of current greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide and 53 percent of global GDP.