Beyond 2025: A New Climate Multilateralism?

Rationale

Over the past 70 years, multilateralism has been the foundation of global stability and collective progress. Yet, as the climate crisis deepens, this model faces unprecedented challenges which include geopolitical fragmentation, eroding trust, and widening implementation gaps.

This COP30 side event will explore the question: “What role States play to restore trust in multilateralism to deliver solutions for the climate crisis? The discussion will bring together current thinking from multiple projects and organizations to help define a coherent roadmap for climate multilateral innovation, one that restores trust, strengthens integrity, and connects international commitments with people’s realities.

Objectives

• Reflect on how climate multilateralism can evolve beyond 2025 to remain a driver of global stability and cooperation.
• Promote integrity, transparency, and ethics as foundations of credible climate governance.
• Bridge the gap between multilateral decisions and local action, ensuring outcomes resonate with real-world challenges.
• Examine frameworks and metrics to broaden the contributor base in fair and measurable ways.

Expected Outcomes

• A shared understanding of how to reinvigorate trust and inclusivity in global cooperation and multilateralism. Action points Parties, COP Presidencies and the UNFCCC can take to achieve this.
• Summary of innovations for a more effective and action-oriented multilateral system, and concrete ways to implement it.
• Pathway for strengthened collaboration among civil society and research organizations and State Parties advancing governance integrity and transparency in climate multilateralism