Youssef Moftah

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 9-25-2025

Abstract

This policy paper focuses on the role of non-state parties in climate action under COP30. The paper highlights clearly the gap of state actors’ action and their inability alone to meet their requirements in order to make clearly effective steps in their climate change agendas. Following on from previous work frames of the UNFCCC and its subsidiary bodies alongside national and local initiatives the paper shows the past efforts linking them with this year’s presidency and its action plan of "mutirão". The focus of this paper is on building ACE capabilities especially axes of training, public participation, and international cooperation in the global south, Focusing mainly on south-south cooperation. The paper recommends two recommendations first, the need for better legal frameworks under which non-state actors have more action space to implement their initiatives and second, the paper calls for more regional and international cooperation mainly through the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the BRICS as an expertise exchange hub initially. The paper also acknowledges its drawbacks regarding legal frameworks as they can sometime be subject to poor implementation or manipulation by different actors, especially private sector. The second drawback is related to the international cooperation and the obstacles usually put by developing states infront of it. Finally, this paper offers an alternative vision, a vision promoting and highlighting the importance of sectors that directly face the climate change effects and have little to no ability to stop this change in their local communities.

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