The criteria for joining and participating in the Marrakech Partnership are as follows:

• Ambition: Commitment to drive high ambition aligned with the Paris Agreement to deliver a 1.5^oC net-zero, resilient and nature-positive and just world;
• Impact-oriented: Commitment towards actions that are focused on concrete, real-world action delivering mitigation outcomes, increased resilience, reduced vulnerability and/or mobilizing finance;
• Specificity: Taking action with clear, quantifiable outcomes with defined targets and milestones that allow for assessing progress over time;
• Transparency: Report progress and results reflecting how their organizations are accelerating climate action on a periodic basis in line with their institutional capacities, through the Global Climate Action portal.

The MP is open for multi-stakeholder partnerships, coalitions, and initiatives established to promote climate action among non-party stakeholders (NPS), such as: 

• Coalitions representing NPS, including sectoral associations, regional NPS organizations and similar;
• United Nations organizations or other multilateral organizations actively engaged in promoting climate action among NPS;
• Multi-stakeholder NPS partnerships and initiatives established to promote climate action and collaboration among governments and NPS.

The MP is not open for individual companies, organizations, or experts in their own capacity. Such stakeholders are encouraged to join the relevant MP coalition or initiative, to collectively participate. Exceptions include:

• Advisory membership to the MP will be provided to universities, research institutes and think tanks participating in a consultative capacity (for example by providing relevant research, data analysis, etc.);
• By proxy of campaign partner initiatives serving as members to the MP, individual members to the global campaigns are encouraged to identify as taking action under the Marrakech Partnership however, direct engagement should be through relevant partner initiative.

The secretariat is the primary entity responsible for accepting applications and conduct due diligence. Overall decision will also take into strong consideration regional representation and inclusion of representation for minorities.

Partners and accelerators of the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience campaigns, Nature Positive for Climate Action and Food Systems Call to Action, as well as global and regional partners of the 2030 Climate Solutions, who are not yet members of the Marrakech Partnership, are invited to reach out to globalclimateaction@unfccc.int to explore possibilities of joining.

Entities who want to participate in the MP are encouraged to register on the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Portal.

In order to increase inclusivity and regional outreach, initiatives and coalitions working with people living in informality, women and youth groups, Indigenous Peoples organizations, and organizations headquartered in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean are warmly encouraged to submit an application to join the Marrakech Partnership.

Coalitions, initiatives and organizations willing to join the Marrakech Partnership should follow the process detailed below. This process is to be light and streamlined, based on existing due diligence processes with the integration of the additional criteria above and some key decision points:

• Ad-hoc requests or recommendations from other members;
• Due diligence carried out by the UNFCCC secretariat with an assessment against criteria;
• Confirmation from coalitions, initiatives and organizations to abide by the guiding principles of the Marrakech Partnership and the specific working groups that they commit to actively collaborate within and to support the delivery of the annual workplan against the success indicators, according to their strengths, expertise and areas of greatest potential value and impact;
• Induction and inclusion in relevant working groups and online collaboration platforms.

Marrakech Partnership Focal Points

Marrakech Partnership Members