Apresentação do Yearbook of Global Climate Action 2025
Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the Yearbook of Global Climate Action 2025 is an essential tool for understanding how the climate agenda is evolving from promises to concrete results. Published by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), this report highlights the growing role of non-governmental stakeholders - cities, regions, companies, civil society - in the process of implementing global climate policies.
The report is organized into six major areas, including "resilience for cities, infrastructure and water", a particularly relevant topic for those working on adaptation and water management.
In his preface, Simon Stiell states that "This ninth edition demonstrates that the Global Climate Action Agenda has matured from a platform for mobilization into an instrument for implementation.It provides evidence that systems transformation is underway, and highlights where momentum must now accelerate."
Importance and key messages
The Yearbook reveals that the number of individual participants registered on the NAZCA platform has risen from around 18,000 in 2020 to over 43,000 in 2025 - a strong sign of increased commitment and participation.
Registered climate cooperation initiatives (CCIs) have also increased substantially, indicating that collaboration between different types of actors is gaining scale.
Despite visible progress - such as the doubling of renewable capacity and the quadrupling of funding for forests since 2015 - the report highlights that important gaps remain: investment in electricity grids remains critical, emissions in the construction sector have increased and in some regions deforestation has worsened.
For the water and infrastructure sector, the report highlights the urgency of resilience, from efficiency and data intelligence to anticipate and manage extreme phenomena, as well as the need to integrate robust water systems into urban and regional strategies.
Relevance for Portugal and the various levels of action
For a country like Portugal, which is developing its national water and adaptation strategy, the Yearbook offers not only a global diagnosis, but also a learning platform. It makes it possible to measure national action within the global framework, identify good practices and gaps, and leverage the participation of multiple groups - public, private, regional - in line with the logic of the "Water that Unites" strategy.
This moment demands that sustainability organizations and entities don't just set targets, but move towards implementation, monitoring and demonstrating concrete results. The Yearbook reinforces that the transition is underway - but that it requires accelerate.
Source: UNFCCC
