2030 Strategic Framework for International Climate and Nature Action.

The 2030 Strategic Framework for International Climate and Nature Action sets out how the UK government is tackling climate change, environmental damage and biodiversity loss. The 2030 Strategic Framework outlines a vision to halve global emissions, halt and reverse nature loss and build resilience to climate impacts. It identifies six global challenges that must be overcome and describes how the UK will use the levers at its disposal to play its part in meeting those challenges. It explains the UK’s role and approach to international collaboration. The Framework forms a core part of the UK’s wider foreign policy, building on the International Development Strategy, and setting the context for the UK International Climate Finance Strategy. It complements domestic plans, including those set out in the Net Zero Strategy, Powering Up Britain – the Net Zero Growth Plan and the Energy Security Plan, the 2023 Green Finance Strategy, the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP23) for England, and equivalent strategies from the Devolved Administrations.
The UK will focus its international efforts on the following areas in order to tackle each of these challenges in the next decade. Challenge 1: Transition to clean technologies and sustainable practices across all sectors by accelerating global adoption of clean technologies and sustainable solutions, and supporting international research and development to scale up innovative climate and nature solutions. This will also ensure the transition to clean technology and sustainable solutions supports our nature objectives. Challenge 2: Build resilience and adapt to climate impacts, supporting communities, economies and ecosystems. To achieve this UK will increase ambition, commitment and action to respond to climate and environmental impacts at global, national and local levels; will increase finance accessibility for climate adaptation; and build an evidence-based, demand-driven and inclusive approach to adaptation and resilience. Challenge 3: Increase protection, conservation and restoration of nature and tackle key drivers of nature loss by driving global ambition to protect and restore land and sea; supporting global transition to address overexploitation and promote the sustainable management and use of natural resources; harnessing the role of nature in tackling climate change and work with others; minimise pollution; tackle the threat of invasive non-native species. Challenge 4: Strengthen international agreements and cooperation to accelerate delivery of climate and nature commitments through push to ramp up ambition and implementation of global environmental frameworks, promote climate and nature objectives through wider multilateral engagement, etc. Challenge 5: Align global financial flows with a net zero, climate resilient and nature positive future. This challenge will be addressed through: building frameworks, catalyze public and private climate and nature investment, responding to the financial needs of the most climate vulnerable. Challenge 6: Shift trade and investment rules and patterns to support the transition to a climate and nature positive future: work to strengthen the UK’s position as a major international market for environmental goods and services.