Act4Earth Manifesto 2025

The 24th Edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS 2025) marks a pivotal moment in global sustainability efforts. As the world faces intensifying climate challenges and widening development gaps, partnerships must take centre stage. Collaboration—across governments, businesses, civil society, and communities—is essential to accelerate solutions, scale innovations, and drive systemic change.

To mobilise action, foster ambition, and enable impactful partnerships, we are launching the Act4Earth Manifesto 2025—a renewed commitment to solutions that are just, science-driven, and future-ready. WSDS 2025 has served as a platform to unite global stakeholders, forging pathways for a sustainable and climate-secure future. The time for partnerships is now. The time for action is now.

We pledge to Act for Earth by:
  • Leveraging technology for a low-carbon future: Through advanced technologies like AI, renewable energy, and climate-smart solutions, we can drive low-carbon growth while protecting nature.
  • Healing and nurturing nature: By integrating knowledge, policy, and innovation for a just and climate-resilient future. Through regional cooperation, ocean and ecosystem restoration, and inclusive action, we will shift from extraction to regeneration, from overconsumption to harmony. Together, we advance nature-inspired solutions that sustain life—on land, in water, and beyond.
  • Bridging the gap between financial markets and real-world climate needs: Enhancing infrastructure and directing investments towards sustainable and effective solutions.
  • Establishing an inclusive climate finance framework at COP30: To build a resilient future, COP30 must ensure predictable funding for developing nations through an inclusive, transparent, and accessible climate finance framework.
  • Ensuring climate justice through equitable carbon markets: Carbon markets must uphold equity and fairness, directing finance and technology transfer to vulnerable communities while maintaining transparency and accountability.
  • Strengthening partnerships for climate action: Among governments, financial institutions, and communities, implementing effective policies and encouraging private sector participation to mobilise national and international funding for impactful climate action.
  • Advancing multilateralism and environmental ethics: Rejecting rampant speciesism while ensuring that economic growth is aligned with green guardianship.
  • Powering progress through partnerships: Scaling up, evaluating impact, ensuring oversight, driving deployment, and shifting behaviours for real change.
  • Building resilient infrastructure: Incorporating lifecycle analysis, disaster resilience components, cooling solutions, and capacity building with stakeholders as key pillars for new resilient infrastructure in the country.
  • Embedding sustainable development in policymaking: Sustainable development must be the blueprint—embedded in policy processes and action, with policies that align, not collide.