Moving for Climate NOW is an initiative to create awareness at the international level on the importance of acting now against climate change. It is also the story of a journey: one undertaken by a group of experts, on electric bicycles, to deliver a message on the urgency of uniting to combat climate change to the Climate Summits (COP). In 2019 it completed its 5th edition, arriving to the COP25 held in Madrid under the Presidency of Chile. In 2020, the initiative has supported the global agenda by commemorating the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, presenting once more its Manifesto, this year virtually at the UNFCCC Climate Change Dialogues 2020, as a preview of the one to be presented to COP26, which will be hosted in Glasgow by the UK in partnership with Italy, on 1-12 November 2021.
Meet the Team
We present the people from different organisations and countries who form the committed team of cyclists that have pedalled for the climate.
5 years building momentum together for the Paris Agreement
2020 marked the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. It has also been a year marked by a worldwide pandemic whose sanitary, social and economic consequences are making all Governments across the globe define new stimulus and recovery mechanisms. In this context, there is a key need to align climate goals with sustainable recovery measures from Covid-19.
The initiative Moving for Climate NOW (M4CN), which started its journeys to COPs also in 2015, also wanted to contribute and support the global climate agenda events, from the Race to Zero Campaign, targeting to mobilise all actors towards net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest, to the Climate Dialogues, capitalising on the experience from the June Momentum for Climate Change. And lastly to the Paris Agreement anniversary on 12 December, which sets the final milestone for the call for action to set the world on a more consistent path towards the system transformations required for a greener, better and climate-resilient future.
In 2020 Moving for Climate NOW could not take place in its usual format due to travelling and sanitary recommendations, however it will continue to showcase its unconditional support to ambitious and urgent climate action, by presenting once more its Manifesto, this time virtually, as a preview of the one to be presented to COP26.
The presentation of our manifesto to UNFCCC took place on 3rd December 2020, in a Special Event during the UN Climate Change Dialogues 2020. It also included a high-level dialogue including interventions from the HL Climate Champions of COP25 and COP26 and Moving for Climate NOW participants to showcase progress and transformations over these years, and reflect on the needed levers going forward to meet 2050 climate neutrality targets and implement sustainable recovery from COVID-19.
Participants from all editions have also showcased in a set of videos, progress achieved over these 5 years and their support for further climate engagement and ambition.
After completing our cycling route and the conclusion of COP24, we are proud to have delivered our message on the urgency to act together against climate change, showing the importance of building alliances to reach our objectives. If you have missed the details of this exciting adventure, we encourage you to check our Route Diary.
Route Diary
Moving for Climate Now: Previous Editions
Moving for Climate NOW has completed its fifth edition, with the cycling team having already travelled more than 4,200 kilometres since the first one, which took them from Bilbao to COP21 in Paris in an initiative organized by employees of Iberdrola (Just2Challenge). After then, under the motto Moving for Climate NOW, they have reached the COP22 in Marrakech from Seville, the COP23 in Bonn from Paris and the COP24 in Katowice, Poland, from Vienna. In 2019 it was the turn of the COP25 in Madrid from Salamanca.
Voices Against Climate Change
Voices Against Climate Change