BELÉM, Brazil, Nov. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The UN Global Compact today concluded its COP30 presence in Belém after engagements that brought business, finance, Government and the UN system together to move from ambition to execution. Anchored by the UN Global Compact Business Hub in the COP Blue Zone and highlighted by the 13th Annual High-Level Meeting of Caring for Climate co-convened with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the programme focused on credible transition plans, climate resilience and private-sector delivery of countries’ next generation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Across two weeks, the Business Hub hosted sessions that translated global goals into practical pathways for companies. Proceedings opened with an official UN side event on public procurement — co-organized with UNOPS, UNEP, FAO and UNIDO — examining how a lever that represents 13–30 per cent of GDP in many countries can accelerate resilience and inclusion when climate ambition is embedded into contracts and supplier engagement.
Subsequent sessions explored the private sector’s contribution to “NDCs 3.0,” alignment between the business and investor cases for mobilizing capital, insights from the 2025 UN Global Compact–Accenture CEO Study to inform leadership through 2030, and policy developments since Paris that support credible transition plans and climate-resilient economies.
The Hub also convened dialogues on the renewable energy transition and crisis leadership (through PRME’s immersive Future Boardroom simulation), as well as corporate climate transition planning led by UN Global Compact Country Networks in Europe and Latin America. It also featured a peer exchange on supply-chain transparency, evolving EU rules, and Scope 3. Food systems accountability and geospatial intelligence for resilient infrastructure featured strongly, alongside a dedicated discussion on integrating adaptation into core business models and governance.
Caring for Climate
On 12 November, the UN Global Compact co-convened the Caring for Climate high-level meeting in the Blue Zone, bringing together CEOs, ministers, financiers and UN leaders to connect national transition plans with corporate delivery. The discussion emphasized that achieving the 1.5°C goal now requires a quantum leap in ambition and implementation, underscoring regulatory clarity that de-risks investment, blended-finance approaches to build credible national project pipelines and public-private partnerships that scale solutions in the energy transition while leaving no one behind. The meeting drew on new evidence from the 2025 CEO Study showing strong private-sector intent to maintain or expand climate commitments and a growing expectation for policy frameworks that align markets with 1.5°C.
