About the ENACT Partnership

At the Sharm el-Sheikh 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP27) in December 2022, the Egyptian COP Presidency launched the ENACT Partnership: ‘Enhancing Nature-based Solutions for an Accelerated Climate Transformation’. This ambitious partnership, developed in collaboration with the Government of Germany and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), established a global coalition of state and non-state actors to address the gaps in coherence and collaboration in promoting and implementing NbS for climate change.

To devise the Partnership, 59 state and non-state representatives were convened to co-design its vision and scope, and to develop clear and purposeful action-based targets to guide strategy and track progress. It was agreed that ENACT should aim to accelerate efforts to address the climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises jointly by setting a common action agenda on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Furthermore, with the aim of driving resources and action, participants agreed that ENACT should set goals focused on accelerating implementation and finance towards the achievement of existing targets across the UNFCCC and Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) frameworks, rather than call for new pledges or commitments.

Therefore, ENACT is designed as an enabler and accelerator of progress towards multilaterally established global targets including the UN Decade on Restoration, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) adopted under the CBD (2022), the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC (2015), and the G20 Global Initiative on Land Degradation under the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) (1994).