COP30 closed with its strongest signal to date that the global energy transition is no longer aspirational — it is accelerating at industrial scale.
The newly released Outcomes Report on the Global Climate Action Agenda at COP30 highlights a sweeping surge in renewable-energy deployment, unprecedented grid investments, and coordinated efforts to wind down fossil-fuel dependence across the world’s major sectors.
Presented jointly by the COP29 and COP30 Presidencies and Climate High-Level Champions Dan Ioschpe and Nigar Arpadarai, the report captures how governments, businesses, financial institutions and civil society are moving from commitments to concrete implementation, redefining what fossil-fuel phaseout looks like in practice.
A Trillion-Dollar Pivot Toward Clean Power
At the heart of COP30’s energy outcomes is a USD 1 trillion global plan to strengthen and expand power grids, unlock large-scale energy storage, and enable the deployment of renewables at a pace that finally matches climate science.
The plan unites the Green Grids Initiative (launched at COP26), the Utilities for Net Zero Alliance (UNEZA, launched at COP28), the Clean Energy Ministerial, IRENA, and the International Energy Agency in an unprecedented coalition. Their shared objective:
Triple global renewable-energy capacity by 2030
This dramatic expansion marks the clearest pathway yet for replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation, transport and industry.
The report notes thousands of gigawatts of renewable power, massive uptake of clean industrial technologies, and tens of thousands of electric vehicles entering global markets — all signaling that a structural shift is underway.
“What we’ve showcased in Belém is climate action shifting into a new gear — accelerating at unprecedented pace,” said COP30 Climate High-Level Champion Dan Ioschpe. He pointed to cities rapidly decarbonizing, financial institutions redirecting capital at scale, and Indigenous leadership anchoring forest protection as evidence of real-world transformation. “This whole-of-society effort will not stop with today’s closing gavel.”
Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Through Systemwide Transformation
Though not framed as a single negotiated commitment, COP30’s non-state action signals a de facto fossil-fuel phaseout strategy emerging from the real economy:
- Massive renewable-energy rollouts reduce the economic relevance of coal, oil and gas.
- Clean industrial projects and novel carbon-removal technologies redefine how heavy industry will operate.
- Electrification in transport and manufacturing cuts direct fossil-fuel demand.
- A trillion-dollar grid investment pipeline ensures clean energy can reach consumers, replacing the infrastructure that once locked countries into fossil-fuel dependence.
The shift is no longer incremental. The report highlights leaps in sustainable fuel production — a quadrupling by 2035 — and developing countries leading new industrial decarbonization pathways, challenging long-held assumptions about who drives technological leadership.
Nature Protection and Resilience Support the Energy Transition
While energy headlines dominated COP30, climate action in land, food and ocean systems directly reinforces fossil-fuel phaseout by protecting carbon sinks and supporting communities facing transition impacts.
- Hundreds of millions of hectares of forests, land and ocean were protected or restored.
- USD 9 billion was committed for sustainable agriculture and food-system transformation.
- Indigenous and traditional communities saw major advances in land rights — crucial for maintaining ecosystem integrity and preventing deforestation linked to fossil-fuel extraction and land-use change.
Meanwhile, resilience efforts under the Race to Resilience campaign reached 437.7 million people, demonstrating that the energy transition can — and must — deliver security and opportunity.
Finance Turns Toward Clean Energy at Unprecedented Scale
Perhaps the most striking shift is financial: trillions of dollars are moving toward climate solutions, both through public-private partnerships and innovation-driven investments.
This infusion is beginning to form what the report calls “an economy in its own right” — one that rewards long-term stability, protection of natural systems and renewable energy expansion over fossil-fuel speculation.
A Five-Year Vision to Keep Momentum Beyond COP30
To ensure continuity, the Climate High-Level Champions launched a new Five-Year Vision for the Global Climate Action Agenda, accompanied by enhanced transparency through the NAZCA portal. The framework is intended to keep global action aligned, ambitious and accountable.
Nigar Arpadarai, COP29 Climate High-Level Champion, emphasized the importance of sustained momentum:
“This is about accelerating progress everywhere, for everyone.”
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell echoed that sentiment in Belém, calling the Climate Action Agenda a sign of global cooperation at work.