Planet: energy and the environment Tackling climate change and nature loss is complex, but the Forum drives real-world impact through multiple initiatives. These include accelerating climate finance, reducing plastic waste, improving industrial emissions and sharing scalable best practices – all rooted in the Forum’s strengths: collaboration, open dialogue and shared learning. Giving to Amplify Earth Action Only 6% of the funding needed annually to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2030 has been mobilized. GAEA (Giving to Amplify Earth Action) addresses this gap by combining public and private capital, public leadership and philanthropy’s catalytic capabilities. Launched in January 2024, GAEA aims to accelerate system transformation through public-private-philanthropic partnerships (4Ps). It has already convened 140 partners and helped secure $4 billion in direct capital commitments, alongside $200 billion in aggregated philanthropic capital. GAEA uses philanthropic capacity to reduce risk, enable innovation and attract further investment, supported by an enabling public sector. Its approach is reinforced by thought leadership that redefines the role of philanthropy in scaling climate and nature solutions. The initiative begins with an Intelligence Hub to amplify catalytic capital and improve risk-return ratios through tools like the Global Future Council on Innovative Financing for Nature and Climate. It then moves into an Impact Assembly Line, identifying, launching and scaling initiatives through the Big Bets Accelerator, community engagement and the GAEA Awards. Big Bets Accelerator partnerships include the Green Steel Value Chain, Coal to Clean, New Textiles Economy, Wildfire Leadership and Ocean-Positive Pathways. GAEA’s co-chairs offer strategic direction, drawing on backgrounds in global development, philanthropy and public service. The GAEA Awards celebrate transformative collaborations and support awardees to scale impact. Global Plastic Action Partnership Plastic pollution is an urgent global challenge, with 19 million tonnes entering the environment annually and production projected to triple by 2060. Launched in 2018, the Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP) unites governments, businesses and civil society to turn commitments to reduce plastic pollution into action and advance a circular plastics economy worldwide. In January 2025, GPAP reached a key milestone: establishing 25 National Plastic Action Partnerships (NPAPs), becoming the world’s largest plastic pollution initiative. It now engages over 2,000 stakeholders to co-develop inclusive, locally owned solutions impacting 1.5 billion people. GPAP informs global processes like the Global Plastics Treaty and Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, aligning ambition with national realities and advancing collaboration on finance, innovation and value chain transformation. GPAP launched seven National Plastic Action Roadmaps using proprietary modelling tools. These roadmaps help countries measure their plastic footprint, align priorities and develop data-driven strategies tied to national goals. Equity and inclusion remain central. GPAP’s Inclusive Plastic Action Programme 2025 supports informal waste workers, with over 20,000 people benefitting from its gender and social inclusion efforts. GPAP also launched a Biodiversity Small Funds Initiative, with recipients announced at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference. GPAP’s unique approach supports the collective global mission to end plastic pollution for good.Learn more here Learn more here Annual Report 2024-2025 Our Impact16

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