Addis ababa: The Second Climate Week in Addis Ababa convened a wide range of participants-including policymakers, business leaders, financiers, and community representatives-to fast-track climate action. Organized by UN Climate Change and hosted by the government of Ethiopia, the second Climate Week (CW2) of 2025 will focus on turning pledges into solutions that deliver tangible benefits for people-stronger economic growth, more affordable energy, better health, and rising living standards.
According to Ethiopian News Agency, this week-long event will highlight how communities and partners are already pioneering scalable solutions-from community recycling projects in Kenya, to green bonds in Morocco, to digital platforms tracking ambition-with sessions structured around implementation challenges identified by countries and regional actors, while also sharing proven solutions so they can be replicated and scaled up.
“We are at a vital moment in the world’s climate journey. Climate Week in Addis Ababa is a chance to share and scale up real-world solutions, and help spread the real-life benefits of climate action to more people across Africa and around the world: more resilient economies, more jobs, better health and quality of life, more secure and affordable clean energy for all,” said UN Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell.
The Implementation Forum is at the core of CW2-a new space to share and develop practical solutions across climate finance, technology, and other key sectors. With a strong focus on investment and collaboration, it will bring together diverse actors through Implementation Labs, dialogues, and roundtables to address real-world challenges.
Key thematic sessions include adaptation finance, Public-Private Finance Dialogue, accelerating agriculture climate action, scaling forest climate action, strengthening Public-Private Sector Collaboration as well as multilevel and community-driven action.
The Climate Week is global in focus, but its solutions are deeply relevant to Agenda 2063-Africa’s vision for inclusive growth, sustainability, and resilience. CW2 has been deliberately timed to take place just ahead of the Africa Climate Summit 2 (ACS2), hosted in Addis Ababa from 8-10 September 2025.
The outcomes of CW2, particularly from the Implementation Forum, will help inform the Summit, where African leadership will advance work on finance, adaptation, and resilience-shaping Africa’s voice on the road to COP30 and marking a crucial moment for the continent’s climate leadership.
Ethiopia’s Minister of Planning and Development, Fitsum Assefa, emphasized the strategic alignment, stating that Africa’s climate priorities will be elevated into the global agenda. This effort will strengthen implementation, unlock finance, and set the stage for COP30 and beyond.
“By strategically connecting Climate Week, the Climate Change and Development Conference in Africa, and the Second Africa Climate Summit, we establish a unified platform that turns dialogue into practical, scalable climate solutions and funding, fostering a resilient and green continent,” said Mosses Vilakati, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, African Union Commission.