From Plans to Progress: A Blueprint for Delivering 1.5°C Through the ‘Global Mutirão’

12 Dec 2025

A new chapter opened in Belém. With the adoption of the Global Mutirão agreement, rooted in Brazil’s tradition of collective community work, countries sent a clear message: delivering 1.5°C is only possible through shared effort. The Belém Mission sets the ambition; now we must build the system capable of delivering it.

That is why, in the lead-up to COP30, the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, together with Inter IKEA Group, and partners including Unilever and the Climate Champions Team, launched a project designed to move ‘Beyond NDCs’. Our goal was to test a radical but practical proposition: the fastest way to accelerate climate action is to align National Climate Strategies (NDCs) with Corporate Climate Transition Action Plans (CTAPs).

Evidence shows that aligning national and corporate plans strengthens, accelerates, and makes climate action more resilient. Policy clarity unlocks business investment. Business investment strengthens national resilience. The result is a win-win engine for the real economy.

Proof of progress: alignment already at work

The ‘Global Implementation Accelerator’, a voluntary initiative launched under the leadership of the COP30 and COP31 Presidencies to support countries in implementing their NDCs and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), will help scale coordination, but we don’t need to wait to understand what aligned climate action looks like. Our ‘Beyond NDC’ project demonstrates that collaborative alignment is already delivering real world benefits.

Here’s how alignment is already delivering tangible results on the ground:

Brazil

Brazil’s NDC commits to restoring 12 million hectares of forests. Private capital is helping turn that ambition into action. As part of the previously announced Inter IKEA Group investment of €100 million for removing and storing carbon, IKEA is now launching a pioneering project together with BTG Pactual in Brazil, focusing on conserving, restoring, and reforesting a total portfolio of approximately 4,000 hectares of deforested or low-productive pastureland.

Meanwhile, Unilever has replaced fossil fuels with eucalyptus-based biomass in their Indaiatuba plant – the largest laundry detergent powder factory in the world – and is supporting the implementation of regenerative farming practices across 45,000 hectares of soy landscapes.

The win-win: Brazil advances its restoration goals; companies secure future access to renewable, bio-based materials.

Taiwan

With 98% energy import dependence, Taiwan faces intertwined climate and energy-security risks. The European Outdoor Group (EOG) is aggregating renewable energy demand across multiple brands to support shared suppliers, creating a bankable demand signal that enables even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to access green power.

The win-win: Taiwan attracts broader investment for its 2050 net-zero pathway; global brands strengthen the resilience and competitiveness of supply chains.

Vietnam

Vietnam’s Power Development Plan 8 (PDP8) requires rapid grid modernisation and electrification. Companies such as H&M Group and IKEA are supporting this transition by working to electrify heat-intensive textile processes and piloting industrial heat pumps. Their advocacy for Direct Power Purchase Agreements (DPPAs) is helping shape the regulatory frameworks needed to scale renewables.

The win-win: Vietnam accelerates the modernisation of a critical export sector; companies reduce Scope 3 emissions and hedge against fossil energy volatility.

Our Call to Action: The 2026 Coalition

The Mutirão is a call for collective work. We are responding with a blueprint, and an invitation.

In 2026, we are encouraging pioneering governments and leading companies to turn Belém’s voluntary roadmaps into aligned, investable transition pathways using the Beyond NDCs model. To succeed, three shifts are essential:

1. Don’t just pledge, plan together. Governments must invite key industries to the table when drafting the ‘Roadmaps to Mission 1.5°C.’

2. Focus on the ‘Enablers’. The most powerful policies are structural unlocks, grid access frameworks, and traceability standards.

3. Operationalise finance. The $1.3 trillion goal remains abstract without concrete projects. Our alignment model creates the pipeline of bankable projects that finance ministries are desperate for.

The era of fragmented action is over. Achieving 1.5°C requires synchronised moves from both governments and industry.

Governments are essential for providing scale and stakeholder buy-in, utilizing their mandate to set economy-wide trajectories and achieve consensus. However, it is the private sector, particularly global corporations, that often holds the essential know-how and experience. These are validated, cost-effective solutions honed through real-world experimentation across diverse markets. To harness this private sector momentum, public authorities must deploy financial and non-financial incentives, such as clear carbon pricing, streamlined permitting, and targeted subsidies, to act as a force multiplier. This creates the necessary impetus, ensuring that private investment plans are not just complemented but accelerated, rapidly driving the investment required to meet national climate goals.

The blueprint is set. Collective action starts now.