ASEAN Climate Action Dialogue

Mobilizing Non-State Actors for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Southeast Asia

Non-state actors, including businesses, investors, cities, civil society, youth networks, and knowledge institutions, play a pivotal role in delivering measurable progress toward the Paris Agreement and the Global Stocktake outcomes. At COP30, the launch of the One United Action Agenda marked a shift from fragmented action to integrated delivery, aligning more than 480 initiatives under six shared axes of implementation.

Across Southeast Asia, however, non-state actor initiatives have often remained sectoral, uncoordinated, and disconnected from policy, finance, and each other. This fragmentation has limited scale, slowed implementation, and hindered the translation of global commitments into investment-ready, locally implemented solutions.

Convened by the Global Compact Network Philippines and Race to Net Zero Philippines, the High-Level Dialogue responded to this challenge. Building on COP30, it sought to translate the global action agenda into a concrete ASEAN delivery platform. Structured around six climate action axes consistent with the One United Action Agenda, the Dialogue brought together actors from the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam to explore pathways from high-level commitments to grounded collaboration, pilot platforms, and project pipelines**.**

Through cross-country learning and the exchange of actionable insights, the Dialogue aimed to lay the groundwork for a Southeast Asia Implementation Platform. It provided a space for participants to identify next steps, explore coordination across the six axes, and consider project pipelines aligned with global financing flows and local development priorities.

The shared ambition was to advance non-state actor initiatives across ASEAN that are actionable, fundable, and embedded within national pathways for resilience and decarbonization.