The 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) will revisit a number of political launches from COP30. This includes the COP30 Presidency’s roadmaps and, with the COP31 Presidency, new mechanisms for enhancing international cooperation. This week, Brazil, Türkiye, and Australia are unveiling a new cooperation “ecosystem” that has the potential to build on the transformative potential of the Global Climate Action Agenda (GCAA), recently aligned with the targets and signals of the first global stocktake. If implemented well, it will be a much-needed process that can match targets with solutions and finance, linking the negotiations and implementation mechanisms under the Paris Agreement.
The key components of this system are: 1) the GCAA and its Plans to Accelerate Solutions (PAS); 2) the Belém Mission to 1.5; 3) the Global Implementation Accelerator; and the 4) the Climate Implementation Bridge. How they will work together has been taking shape over the course of 2026, with greater clarity shared at meetings during Climate Week NYC. Two of these components, the Belém Mission to 1.5 and Global Implementation Accelerator, were launched at COP30 and mandated to report back at COP31.
The Belém Mission to 1.5, building on its predecessor the Roadmap to 1.5, sets the overarching ambition and defines key gaps and political priorities for enhanced international cooperation. Just ahead of COP, the Presidencies published a “Belém Mission to 1.5: Enabling ambition and accelerating implementation of NDCs and NAPs” report.
The GCAA’s PAS feed into the Global Implementation Accelerator. Each year, a Global Implementation Accelerator expert committee will select ten PAS that can drive positive tipping points. Then a special council will narrow those PAS from ten to two high-impact, scalable solutions with the potential to reach a positive tipping point in three to five years. By focusing on a few GCAA solutions, this system can enhance international cooperation in innovative ways, enabling countries to overcome key barriers, connecting investment to solutions that will accelerate climate action, and leverage the convening power of the UNFCCC and its partners.
A Climate Implementation Bridge, with UN Environment Programme’s support, will match investments for those solutions with partner countries and initiatives. The Bridge will connect these solutions to country priorities and work with countries to develop investment roadmaps. These efforts will be aligned with the Belém Mission to 1.5’s vision and the Global Implementation Accelerator solutions to produce an investment-ready portfolio. A group of pilot countries will be ready to work on the first solutions from COP31.
The Presidencies also recently published a report on the Global Implementation Accelerator, setting out their vision for how these mechanisms will work together.
In Antalya, the following meetings will be held on the Global Implementation Accelerator:
Negotiators should be involved in helping the Global Implementation Accelerator identify the priority solutions each year, thus cementing the link between negotiations and the implementation arm of the Paris process.
This new ecosystem is a welcome development, one that C2ES and others been calling for. If implemented well, it will focus attention on priority, scalable solutions identified through the first global stocktake. It will further match frontrunner countries with investment roadmaps to help achieve tipping points identified through the GCAA. It brings much of the UNFCCC process, both on the Party and non-Party side, full circle to match targets with implementation through enhanced international cooperation.
