
The Climate Promise is UNDP’s commitment to ensure that any country wishing to increase the ambition of their national climate pledge is able to do so. The Promise draws upon our extensive expertise across priorities such as energy, forests, water, resilience, agriculture, health, youth, finance, governance, gender equality and green jobs. With 119 agreed Climate Promise workplans, it is the world’s largest offer of support to countries’ climate pledges.

UNDP's enhanced SIDS offer ‘Rising Up for SIDS’ turns challenges into opportunities to accelerate transformative sustainable development towards achieving the targets of the 2030 Agenda and the SAMOA Pathway. The offer elevates UNDP's support across three interrelated levers: Climate Action, Blue Economy and Digital Transformation, with access to sustainable finance as the key enabler. Through these integrated solutions, UNDP will help catalyse development in SIDS during the Decade of Action.





UNDP Accelerator Labs


Transforming Systems in the Decade of Action

The COVID-19 pandemic requires a fundamental shift in how we design and implement development solutions. That is why UNDP together with the Presencing Institute is leading an initiative to build systems leadership capabilities across the UN, including through a global dialogues series that takes a deep dive into ‘Theory U’, supporting participants to situate ‘self’ as a key driver for systems change and prototyping solutions for complex challenges.