Promoting credible transition plans and the global adoption of ACT methodologies
As the world gathers in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, the ACT Initiative will join discussions to accelerate credible and science-based corporate transition planning.
Our goal: to promote ACT methodologies as an international reference for assessing, designing and monitoring credible transition plans aligned with the Paris Agreement.
ACT contributes to building a common language around transition plans, uniting governments, companies, investors and civil society around transparent, comparable and science-based approaches.
Over the past decade, ACT has supported hundreds of companies in transforming ambition into action, helping them strengthen their competitiveness, anticipate risks, and identify opportunities for innovation and sustainable growth.
By fostering collaboration between businesses, governments and investors, ACT continues to build the foundations of a credible global transition that delivers on the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
ACT at COP30 : Events and engagements
Climate Transition Plans: Taking Action Towards Net Zero
📅 Date and time: 13 November 2025, 11:30 – 13:00
📍Location: UNGC Pavilion, COP Blue Zone
This high-level session, organised by the UN Global Compact Brazil, will gather business leaders and international initiatives to discuss how companies are translating climate commitments into credible transition plans and measurable action towards net zero.
The ACT Initiative will deliver the opening keynote, presenting the role of ACT methodologies as an international benchmark for assessing and building robust transition plans aligned with the Paris Agreement.
The session will highlight how collaborative frameworks and shared standards, such as ACT, support companies in moving from ambition to action, accelerating a credible transition across sectors and regions.
From Paris to Belém: Ten Years Later, How Far Has Business Come, and How Far Must It Go?
📅 Date and time: 13 November 2025, 15:30 – 17:00
📍Location: UNGC Pavilion, COP Blue Zone
Organised by the UN Global Compact Brazil, this session will bring together business leaders and international initiatives to reflect on the progress made since the Paris Agreement and the challenges that remain to achieving a just and sustainable transition.
The ACT Initiative, participating alongside the UN Global Compact, will share insights from its transition plans assessment campaigns and its impact study on companies that have implemented transition plans using the ACT Step-by-Step methodology. The intervention will highlight tangible benefits, lessons learned, and how ACT Step-by-Step supports credible and effective transition planning to drive real business transformation.
Integrating climate, sufficiency, and nature for value chain and territorial resilience
📅 Date and time: 14 November 2025, 10:00 – 12:30
📍Location: French Pavilion, COP Blue Zone
This session will explore how businesses are taking action for the climate, from decarbonising cities and value chains to promoting energy efficiency and resource sobriety.
ACT will deliver the keynote on credible transition plans, highlighting how robust and science-based approaches can guide companies through a holistic transformation process.
The session will also feature a roundtable moderated by ACT, in collaboration with EPE, MEDEF, and the Franco-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, focusing on nature as a driver of resilience and sustainability.
Finally, ACT will present the new ACT Biodiversity methodology, illustrating how integrating climate, nature, and sufficiency creates synergies for business and territorial resilience.
Launch Event in São Paulo: Climate Transition – From Commitment to Action with the ACT Methodology
📅 Date and time: 18 November 2025, 16:00 – 19:00 (UTC-3)
📍Location: French-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFB)-SP, Alameda Itu 852, 19º andar, São Paulo
In partnership with the French-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFB), the ACT Initiative will host the official launch event of its implementation in Brazil, marking a new step in the regional deployment of ACT.
The event will feature the presentation of the ACT methodologies by Rever/UTOPIES and I Care & Consult, the two consulting firms now officially representing the Initiative in Brazil. These leading organisations are entrusted with promoting ACT methodologies (Step-by-Step, Assessment, Mitigation, Adaptation and Biodiversity), training consultants and climate experts to become certified ACT Advisors, and supporting companies in implementing credible transition plans.
The programme will also include insights from the Climate Finance Hub on the first national analysis of corporate transition readiness, followed by a panel discussion with Brazilian companies sharing experiences and opportunities to accelerate their transition, and a networking cocktail.
Co-organised by Rever/UTOPIES Brazil, I Care Brasil, and the Climate Finance Hub, with the support of Eurochambres.