Turning ambition into action for a just and sustainable future for all
Ambition Loop is a global NGO, headquartered in Chile, on a mission to deliver and inspire transformative action across pressing climate and nature priorities.
About Us
Ambition Loop was co-founded in 2023 by Gonzalo Muñoz and Nigel Topping, the COP25 and COP26 High Level Climate Champions, and a team of highly-experienced practitioners with deep expertise in catalysing collaborative actions to global challenges. =. We work across action areas including agriculture, land and food systems; low-carbon industry and circularity; and ocean and marine ecosystems.
We believe that bold action from real economy actors (cities, civil society, corporates, finance institutions, frontline leaders) can drive governments to take bolder action faster, and vice versa; enabling policy and financial incentives from governments can help spur action in the real economy. This is the ‘ambition loop’.
We work with a diverse range of partners to co-create strategies and actions that adapt to rapidly-changing contexts. We strive to always be movement generous and are committed to keeping ambition high.
The Ambition Loop Approach
Our approach is adapted to each unique context. Each step can be applied independently and in combination.
Agriculture and Food Systems
Our goal is to transform agriculture and food systems to deliver positive outcomes for people, nature, and climate. We support systemic approaches to drive transformative actions across the global economy, recognising complexity, diversity and the need for context-specific solutions. We collaborate with key stakeholders to identify and overcome barriers to change. We work across diverse solution areas and issues such aquatic blue foods, regenerative agriculture methane and nitrous oxide emissions. We work locally - in Brazil driving the bioeconomy agenda. And we work globally - for example collaborating with the Climate Champions Team to deliver Axis 3 of the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Agenda.
Finance Mobilisation
The capital exists. The opportunities exist. What's missing is the infrastructure to connect them. The bottleneck is not money or ambition — it's system orchestration. Without finance, there is no action agenda; but finance won't flow without enabling conditions that make deals visible, credible, and investable. Nature-based solutions sit at the heart of this — an underinvested asset class with outsized potential across climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods. This logic runs through every loop we operate — from regenerative agriculture to land restoration. We shift the narrative from risk to opportunity, aggregate pipeline, and engage capital through shared market infrastructure. A system that turns fragmented momentum into compounding impact. We are proud to be a founding partner of the Earth Investment Engine.
Land and Soil
The Land and Soil portfolio supports global land conservation and restoration goals, aligned with the UNCCD. We help build the architectures for coordinated public, private, and community efforts that translate global ambition into on-the-ground impact towards land degradation neutrality, simultaneously supporting climate, and biodiversity action.
Mandated by the UNCCD COP16 Presidency, we lead the delivery of the Riyadh Action Agenda, the first action agenda within the UNCCD. We are also convening thematic coalitions of cross-sectoral partners to co-develop the Land & Soil Breakthroughs: a common framework of time-bound, measurable milestones, to aggregate non-state actor commitments, reduce overlap, and make collective progress visible and investable.
Low-Carbon Industry and Circularity
Ambition Loop's Industry portfolio targets the hardest decarbonisation challenge in the global economy: heavy industries and the systems that connect them. These sectors produce around 40% of global emissions, the technologies to decarbonise them exist, but are not reaching scale at the speed the climate requires by lack of a conducive environment.
We work across three areas. Industrial decarbonisation - through the Blueprint initiative- focuses on getting early industrial stage deployment as the hardest scaling step to overcome. Advancing towards a just transition for the maritime sector via coordinated action on zero-emission shipping, connecting fuel supply chains, policy design, and Global South communities for a transition that is ambitious, nature-positive and equitable. And, making circular economy the default practices focused on plastics and textile challenges by realigning rules, finance, and business models before fragmentation locks in another decade.
June 15 to 17, 2026 Santiago, Chile
Ocean and Marine Ecosystems
Ambition Loop’s Ocean and Marine Ecosystems portfolio harnesses ocean-based solutions to build resilient economies and communities, currently around two tracks. The Mangrove Breakthrough is rewiring how the world values, protects, and finances mangroves, with the goal of mobilising $4 billion to protect and restore 15 million hectares by 2030. The aquatic blue food track is coordinating partners across marine ecosystems - corals, saltmarshes, seagrass and mangroves - to unlock investment in marine conservation and blue food value chains. Across both, and alongside partners in government, the financial sector, NGOs, corporates and local communities, we're building the financial architecture needed to turn global ambition into real, on-the-ground impact.