Consult
1. Consult with our respective subnational governments, as appropriate and applicable, to determine the avenues for subnational action to contribute to national mitigation and adaptation commitments and strategies, and their subsequent implementation and monitoring.
Collaborate
2. Work collaboratively with our respective subnational governments to unlock and
realise mitigation and adaptation action opportunities at the subnational level by
involving them, as appropriate and applicable, in the review, design, enhancement,
consolidation and implementation of our national commitments and strategies.
NDC 2025
3. Create inclusive institutional and informal processes to enable subnational
governments to contribute to further enhancing NDCs, where applicable, ahead of
COP30 in 2025, and, where available and appropriate, integrate local and territorial
baseline information, targets and actions for emissions mitigation and adaptation
across all sectors and industries.
NDC investment
4.Include relevant subnational government projects (encompassing mitigation and
adaptation) in climate-related investment priorities (including those directly and
indirectly related to NDCs) and strive to help them secure the resources necessary
from public and private financial institutions, as applicable, to begin or scale up
implementation, including but not limited to supporting project preparation, pipeline
development, aggregation of projects, new financial instruments or policy reform at
local, national, regional and global levels as needed.
Voluntary review
5. Undertake, as appropriate and applicable, regular, and inclusive country-led
reviews of progress at national and subnational level around the implementation of
CHAMP commitments through existing processes, which may include the Voluntary
National Review process of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a
view to ensure that national policy frameworks support and, where appropriate, can
accelerate ambitious multilevel climate action.
High Level Dialogue
6. Meet, amongst the endorsers of CHAMP, with representative subnational leaders, at
a global High Level Political Dialogue on Multilevel Climate Action in the lead up to
both COP29 and COP30 to share good practices and lessons learned in implementing
the CHAMP commitments, to be compiled into a summary shared, among others, as a
contribution to the Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change.
[1] Including the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action established in 2022, the Cities Race to Zero and Resilience, subnational contributions to the 2030 Breakthroughs and the Sharm el Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, and the COP27 Presidency’s Sustainable Urban Resilience for the next Generation (SURGe) initiative
[2] This document is a voluntary and non-binding commitment which does not give rise to any rights or obligations under international law.
1. Albania
2. Andorra
3. Antigua and Barbuda
4. Armenia
5. Australia
6. Azerbaijan
7. Bahamas
8. Bangladesh
9. Belgium
10. Bhutan
11. Brazil
12. Brunei Darussalam
13. Bulgaria
14. Burkina Faso
15. Cabo Verde
16. Canada
17. Chad
18. Chile
19. Colombia
20. Costa Rica
21. Cote d'Ivoire
22. Denmark
23. Dominican Republic
24. El Salvador
25. Estonia
26. Eswatini
27. Ethiopia
28. France
29. Germany
30. Ghana
31. Guatemala
32. Hungary
33. Iceland
34. Italy
35. Jamaica
36. Japan
37. Jordan
38. Kenya
39. Kiribati
40. Kyrgyzstan
41. Lebanon
42. Lesotho
43. Mexico
44. Moldova
45. Mongolia
46. Morocco
47. Netherlands
48. Nicaragua
49. Nigeria
50. North Macedonia
51. Norway
52. Pakistan
53. Palau
54. Panama
55. Papua New Guinea
56. Paraguay
57. Philippines
58. Poland
59. Portugal
60. Rwanda
61. Sant Vincent and the Grenadines
62. Serbia
63. Seychelles
64. Sierra Leone
65. South Korea
66. Sri Lanka
67. Türkiye
68. Turkmenistan
69. UAE
70. Ukraine
71. United States of America
72. Yemen