About the
Breakthrough Agenda

The Breakthrough Agenda convenes initiatives and countries to strengthen international collaboration by providing a framework to prioritise, coordinate, and enhance collaborative action across seven high emitting sectors.

The Breakthrough Agenda was launched at COP26 to help the world close the “collaboration gap” and accelerate international action on climate change.

The Breakthrough Agenda provides a framework for countries, businesses and civil society to join up and strengthen collaborative actions every year in major emitting sectors, and a service to support coalitions of leading public, private, and public-private global initiatives to deliver those actions.

Since its launch, the Breakthrough Agenda has established an internationally-recognised, annual, COP-centred, collaborative process – backed by 61 countries covering over 80% of global GDP, and more than 150 international initiatives – that enhances global cooperation in seven major emitting sectors: power, road transport, steel, hydrogen, agriculture, buildings, and cement and concrete, covering over 60% of global emissions.

What is the purpose of the Breakthrough Agenda

The Breakthrough Agenda provides a collaborative framework comprising of: Commitments, an annual Process and a Service to the international community.

The Breakthrough Agenda process coordinates, prioritises, and enhances global cooperation to make clean technologies affordable and accessible in all regions by 2030.

Coordinate

Facilitates coordination between initiatives and governments in each sector to review collective efforts from COP to COP, align progress on priority actions, and make recommendations on how to plug gaps.

Prioritise

Based on independent advice, building consensus amongst leading governments and the private sector on the top priority actions needed internationally in each sector to accelerate clean technology and sectoral transitions every year.

Enhance

Convenes decision-makers to crowd in efforts through an annual cycle of tracking global progress and strengthening climate governance and accountability.

Sector specific goals and action

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Through the Breakthrough Agenda, partners can speed up the transition to clean technologies by boosting global collaboration and coordination across key sectors. Working together creates opportunities for faster innovation, larger investments, economies of scale, fair competition where it’s needed.