Ahead of the Curve Xpress: Responding to the Call for a ‘Global Mutir?o’

We stand at a pivotal moment in history. Politics as usual is over. Shifting our story now is not optional – it’s necessary to protect the world we love.?

The darkest hour comes before dawn. The climate crisis is getting worse. Nationalism is on the rise. Multilateral cooperation is faltering. Some companies are pulling away from making public climate commitments. That’s why during this period of twilight we must ‘own the dawn’, remaining steadfast in our conviction that we can still forge a better future.

New beats old: make no mistake – a new economy is rising. An economy that’s more advanced, thousands of times more efficient, and more resilient against the higher risk, more volatile world ahead. This isn’t about constraining today’s economy – it’s about harnessing superior, ever-cheaper clean technologies and smarter solutions to create a more successful economy for the future.

At the center of this story is all of us – our needs, aspirations, and potential. By designing it right, we can unleash massive benefits for everybody. Whether they explicitly care about climate or not, we have the opportunity to deliver what people the world over want: safe pollution-free air to breathe, stable energy prices they can afford, and secure livelihoods in industries with a vibrant future ahead of them. We represent the overwhelming majority who want a better future.

With Mission 2025 partners, we have built a pack outlining our shared mission for the year ahead to help guide our collective response to the moment we face. It sets out the framework for a story we can unite behind, the tactics we can deploy, the levers required to safeguard 2030 goals and a shared timeline to deliver the promises made in the global stocktake.

We invite you to join us in this shared mission.

Exponential Spotlight: Cooperation among peoples for the progress of humanity

COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago published his first letter, outlining Brazil’s strategic priorities for COP30 in Bélem later this year. In the letter, the COP30 Presidency invites all leaders and stakeholders to join a ‘global mutir?o’ against climate change – a global effort of cooperation among peoples for the progress of humanity.

“Mutir?o refers to a community coming together to work on a shared task, whether harvesting, building, or supporting one another.” – André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, COP30 President?

Exponential Moment: Countries agree to $200 billion per year to protect nature

Despite rising geopolitical tensions and US cuts to climate programs, more than 140 countries have agreed to raise and distribute $200 billion per year by 2030 to protect nature at CBD COP16 in Rome.?

“We have sent a light of hope that still the common good, the environment, the protection of life and the capacity to come together for something bigger than each national interest is possible.” – Susana Muhamad, CBD COP16 President

“The results of this meeting show that multilateralism works and is the vehicle to build the partnerships needed to protect biodiversity and move us towards peace with nature.” – Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Exponential Media:?

Combustion engine car sales have already peaked.

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Our World In Data show that fossil-fuelled car sales hit a record high in 2018 and have been in decline ever since. Between 2018 and 2023, global sales of combustion engine cars fell by a quarter.

Big businesses step up to buy energy from new wind and solar farms.

The amount of renewable electricity sold to companies under long-term power purchase agreements rose 35% in 2024, according to new data from BloombergNEF .

Right-wing wokeism can’t stop green tech winning the global energy war.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard looks at how the mass exodus of America’s biggest banks from the UN climate alliance will make no measurable difference to the global energy landscape, nor will Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The world is already investing twice as much in clean energy as it does in fossil fuels and renewables costs are falling “faster than ultra-optimists dared to think possible” – because it makes economic sense, and has little to do with climate policy.

To win this fight, let’s remember that we have the ability to imagine and define this new economy that puts people at the heart.

Change happens faster than we think.