Turning ambition into irreversible, systemic change for a just and sustainable future for all.
Ambition Loop is a global NGO, headquartered in Chile, on a mission to deliver and inspire accelerated, coordinated, 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, context-specific approaches to global challenges. We have a track record of delivering complex, large-scale initiatives. 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 (businesses, finance institutions, cities, civil society, frontline leaders and others) 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 approaches that adapt to rapidly-changing contexts and leverage opportunities. 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
Ambition Loop’s Agriculture and Food Systems Portfolio aims to transform agriculture and food systems to deliver positive outcomes for people, nature, and climate. We work with a diverse range of partners, across policy-makers, corporations, financial institutions, cities, consumer groups, frontline leaders and others, to drive action on key transition areas. These include catalysing finance for regenerative agriculture, bioeconomy and nature-positive value chains, fertilisers, aquatic blue foods, and agricultural methane. We also deliver the ‘Transforming Agriculture and Food Systems’ component (Axis 3) of the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Agenda, working in collaboration with the Climate Champions Team.
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 & Soil
The Land & Soil portfolio supports global land conservation and restoration goals, aligned with the UNCCD process. We build the architectures that enable public, private, and community actors to coordinate efforts to scale and accelerate solutions – helping turn global ambition into on-the-ground impact tackling land degradation neutrality (LDN). Our vision: a world where healthy land and soils underpin thriving communities, support effective climate action, and foster biodiversity.
Mandated by the UNCCD COP16 Presidency, Ambition Loop has led the design and delivery of the Riyadh Action Agenda (RAA), the first inclusive multi-stakeholder action agenda within the UNCCD space, launched at COP16 in December 2024.
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 FOAK as the hardest scaling step to overcome. The Maritime Loop drives 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. The Circularity Loop works to make circular economy the default, 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.