Closing statement calls for COP30 outcome that turns ambition into impact

Mr President,

Excellencies,

Distinguished delegates.

Let me begin with a clear and unequivocal message from the global business community: we are – and remain – fully committed to ambitious climate action.

In the decade since the Paris Agreement was concluded, companies across every sector have unleashed unprecedented waves of innovation — deploying clean technologies, reshaping supply chains and mobilising capital at a pace few previously thought possible.

The private sector has not waited for permission to act; we have demonstrated both the will and the ability to deliver.

But to reach the scale and speed that science — and society — demand, we need this COP to come away with a political outcome that drives implementation, not just another restatement of aspiration.

From a business perspective, the priorities are clear.

We need an outcome that provides confidence that governments remain aligned behind the 1.5°C goal.

We need an outcome that accelerates action to build resilience to a changing climate. 

And above all, we need an outcome that unlocks climate financing across emerging and developing economies.

Without a credible pathway for mobilising private capital at scale into these markets, we cannot talk meaningfully about a global energy transition.

Simply put: the world cannot decarbonise on two tracks.

And effective implementation can’t happen without the underpinning finance.

This COP has a unique opportunity: to send a signal with real bite, one that shifts the pace of investment and empowers the real economy to move faster, further, together.

Global business stands ready.

We urge ministers to seize this moment and forge an outcome that turns ambition into action — and action into real-world impact.

Thank you.