The UN Global Climate Action Awards provides a public platform to highlight broad-ranging climate change actions that are already achieving real results on the ground. By shining light on the most inspiring and transformational mitigation and adaptation activities, the Awards Programme aims to strengthen motivation, spur innovation and catalyse further change towards a low-emission, high-resilient future. These winning projects are showcased at the annual United Nations climate change conferences.
The map below shows the past winners of the UN Global Climate Action Awards. All of the activities in 2011 and 2012 fall under the Urban Poor focus area, which is implemented with the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. At the end of 2012, two focus areas were launched: Women for Results, implemented with the generous support of The Rockefeller Foundation and Financing for Climate Friendly Investment, implemented in partnership with the World Economic Forum Global Project on Climate Change. The 2013 Lighthouse Activities were selected from all three focus areas. In 2013, a fourth focus area was launched: ICT Solutions, implemented in partnership with the Global e-Sustainability Initiative.
Following a successful three-year relationship with The Rockefeller Foundation, the secretariat re-launched Women for Results in 2016 with a focus on the role of women as innovators, especially in the renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors. UN Global Climate Action Awards partnered with Masdar’s Women in Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy (WiSER) initiative and donors supporting the implementation of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan to implement Women for Results.
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Sarah Marchildon, Un Global Climate Action Awards Team Lead, momentum@unfccc.int, +49 (0) 228-815-1065
