Background

Climate Proofing SMEs is a key campaign of the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP2 9 - launched at New York Climate Week in September 2024. This special event, held as part of the COP29 Action Agenda programme, will convene stakeholders - across business, finance, academia, subnational governments and cities, international organisations and policymakers - in a dialogue designed to amplify the role of SMEs as critical drivers of the transition to a net-zero resilient future, and explore how to galvanise more systemic and on-the-ground support for SMEs to respond to the transition ahead.

Objectives

• Amplify the perspectives and needs of SMEs to be included as part of a just transition
• Platform Climate-proofing SME campaign collaborator work and announcements
• Discuss how to unlock further support for SMEs to accelerate their climate ambitions and
• Actions through multi-stakeholder collaborations and addressing systemic barriers

Find more details of the event in this Concept Note.

Read the full Outcomes Report here