Accelerating systemic change
through radical
collaboration.
Ambition Loop is a global NGO based in Santiago, Chile on a mission to lead and inspire coordinated, transformative action on a small number of major challenges across climate change, biodiversity, plastics pollution, food systems, and water.
ABOUT US
Why Ambition Loop?
Founded by a diverse group of leaders, including Gonzalo Muñoz and Nigel Topping — both esteemed UN Climate Change High-Level Champions — along with key figures like Daniel Vercelli, Melissa Pinfield, Paula Guerra, Jennifer Lenhart, Jacinda Njike, Rebecca Brooks and Carolina Escobar, Ambition Loop embodies the concept of a positive feedback cycle. This cycle drives collaboration among governments, civil society, and the private sector to elevate sustainable actions to new levels. Our mission is rooted in a deep sense of responsibility towards the planet and its people, guided by bold collective goals and a commitment to radical collaboration built on generosity among partners.
Land & Soil
Invited by the UNCCD COP16 Presidency, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ambition Loop will facilitate the creation of an Action Agenda within the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to accelerate actions by non-state actors in support of the UNCCD’s objectives. These include to combat land degradation and promote sustainable land management and restoration, recognizing that healthy land is central to healthy ecosystems and the planet’s wellbeing, while improving the living conditions of vulnerable populations – and critical to achieving the goals set forth in the fellow Rio Conventions on climate change and biodiversity.
Mangrove Breakthrough
The Mangrove Breakthrough is an ambitious, cross-sector initiative that aims to secure the future of this invaluable ecosystem by halting mangrove loss, doubling their protection, restoring half of the mangroves lost since 1996, and building opportunities for sustainable finance by 2030. Ambition Loop is honored to play a critical role in this initiative by serving as the host institution of the Mangrove Breakthrough’s governing Secretariat. With support and guidance from Ambition Loop, the Secretariat works directly with governments and delivery partners around the world to achieve the critical goals of the Breakthrough.
Plastics
Mandated by Samoa (Presidency of AOSIS), Ambition Loop is coordinating several tracks of non-state actor action as a necessary complement of a bold Global Plastics Treaty in 2025 designed with delivery momentum growing in permanent support of the negotiations.
Ambition Loop works at the intersection of Plastics and Climate through the Methane Agenda and sustainable management of organic waste.
Food Systems
Mandated by the COP28 Presidency and working closely with UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP28 and COP29, Razan Al Mubarak and Nigar Arpadarai, Ambition Loop engages with diverse Non-State Actors - including farmers groups, Indigenous Peoples organizations, civil society, youth, businesses, philanthropy and cities - to support delivery of transformative change in global food systems in collaboration with the Climate Champions Team though the Food Systems Call to Action initiative.
Climate Finance
Having commissioned the 'Finance for Climate Action' report from Nick Stern, Vera Songwe and Amar Bhattacharya at COP27, as UN Climate Champions, Ambition Loop has now launched the Climate Capital Mobilization Accelerator to drive a massive increase of capital flows to climate solutions in EMDEs, targeting $2.4tr per year by 2030.
We focus particularly on building much stronger investment pipelines across nature, industry, energy and resilience, as well as addressing unfair rules of the global finance system and tackling the excessive cost of capital in EMDES. We strongly believe that investing in climate solutions represents an opportunity for ‘climate positive development’ and that the problem-solving skills of private finance are key to unlocking innovation at scale.
Industrial Breakthroughs
Having launched the 2030 Breakthroughs in the run up to COP26, we continue to work closely with a broad ecosystem of partners, including UN Climate Change High Level Champions, TED Countdown, Groundswell, and the Breakthrough Agenda] to drive exponential adoption of clean tech solutions across energy, transport and industry to put the world on track for net zero in the 2040s.
AMBITION LOOP
Our Partners
We understand that no one is in charge of systems transformation but we believe that diverse groups of change agents converging on shared bold goals and pathways have the power to innovate and inspire each other to achieve remarkable results.
Global Events Calendar
Ambition Loop values the opportunity to converge with and expand our network of collaborators at events, conferences, and engagements around the world.
We encourage our network to explore our Global Events Calendar of upcoming events.
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UN Biodiversity Conference 2024
Oct 21, 8:00 AM to Nov 1, 4:00 PM
Cali, Valle del Cauca, ColombiaThe Conference encompasses the Sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16), the Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, and the Fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization.
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Methane Mission: Investment in Municipal Waste Management Systems to Tackle the Climate and Plastic Crisis
November 5th, 09:30 to 11:30 EST
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SUN Movement Global Gathering
Nov 25, 8:00 AM to Nov 28, 8:00 PM
Kigali, Kigali City, RwandaThe SUN Global Gathering in Rwanda, themed ‘NutritiON: Power the Change’, is the SUN Movement's flagship event. It will bring together over 900 stakeholders including policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from 66 member countries, to seize opportunities presented by the political agenda, especially in the lead up to the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit where high level commitments are expected to be made.
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UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29)
11 November - 22 November 2024
Baku, AzerbaijanThe Conference of the Parties (COP), is held annually, with the Presidency rotating between the five recognised UN regions.
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UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution Fifth Session (INC-5)
25 November - 1 December 2024
Busan, Republic of KoreaThe fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5)…
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UNCCD 16th session of the Conference of the Parties
2-13 December 2024
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaUNCCD COP 16 is more than a critical milestone – it represents a moonshot moment to raise global ambition and accelerate action on land and drought resilience through a people-centered approach.
