## [The State of Climate Action in 2025](/events/state-climate-action-2025)

***This webinar was presented in English with simultaneous interpretation into*** [***Spanish***](https://youtu.be/lj9eeZYPS40?si=J4Y1by3cmlFtjsjg)***,*** [***Portuguese***](https://youtu.be/E-2e5wcVQDI?si=ZAFHXd-7HAso3juK) ***and*** [***French***](https://youtu.be/EXrZ6aBfve8?si=j_oSSD-4B1qJuNzs)***.***

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Climbing global greenhouse gas emissions. Intensifying climate impacts. Fading political momentum among some major emitters. The world has seen a troubling backsliding of climate action — precisely when bold, urgent progress is needed most.

Despite mounting challenges, there are encouraging signs of hope. Record-breaking clean energy investments and a growing surge in private climate finance underscore the possibility that rapid transformation remains within reach.

A decade since more than 190 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, it's time to evaluate where we stand: how are global efforts to mitigate climate change fairing?

**On October 28, we held a webinar for the launch of the** [***State of Climate Action 2025***](https://systemschangelab.org/state-climate-action-2025), the world’s most comprehensive roadmap for closing the gap in climate action across sectors to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

Hosted in partnership with World Resources Institute, the Bezos Earth Fund, Climate Analytics, ClimateWorks Foundation, and the High-Level Climate Champions, this webinar spotlighted the report’s latest findings and identified what it will take to accelerate transformational change this decade.   
  
**Keynote**

- Jennifer Morgan, former State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action, German Federal Foreign Office

**Moderator**

- Kelly Levin, Chief of Science, Data and Systems Change, the Bezos Earth Fund; Co-Director of Systems Change Lab

**Panel discussion**

- Ruleta Camacho Thomas, Climate Ambassador, Antigua and Barbuda
- Dan Ioschpe, Climate High-Level Champion, COP30
- Catherine McKenna, Founder and CEO, Climate and Nature Solutions
- Dorah Modise, Executive Director, Presidential Climate Commission, south Africa
- Helen Mountford, President and CEO, ClimateWorks Foundation

**Author presentation**

- Clea Schumer, Research Associate, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute
- Joel Jaeger, Senior Research Associate, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute
- Neil Grant, Senior Climate and Energy Analyst, Climate Analytics
- Sophie Boehm, Senior Research Associate, Systems Change Lab, World Resources Institute