Unilever – Hannah Hislop, Head of Sustainability – Climate:
“Now is the time for a credible fossil fuel roadmap, scaling up renewables and phasing out fossil fuels. It will give businesses like Unilever certainty to invest, strengthen energy security, cut costs, and create a level playing field that de-risks the transition.”
EDF – Carine de Boissezon, Chief Impact Officer:
“This roadmap is critical to restore trust. It will act as a compass to helping organizations translate ambition into concrete steps on the path to net zero and showcase how electrification and innovative solutions can bring through a just transition.”
Jesper Brodin, Former CEO of Ingka Group | IKEA and Chair of The B Team:
“The world is ready for the next chapter. A fossil fuel roadmap from COP30 will give us the clarity to scale solutions at the speed the planet demands.
“The business community is clear: we’ve already turned the page on fossil fuels. A credible roadmap isn’t just policy – it’s a practical tool to unlock investment, strengthen energy resilience, and ensure a just transition that’s good for people and the planet.
“Business is moving. Now we need governments to match the pace so we can build a future powered by green energy – and close the emissions gap.”
Volvo Cars – Spokesperson:
“We urge governments around the world to take bold, decisive action on climate change, and establish a roadmap away from fossil fuels, and towards clean electrification and renewables.”
IIGCC – Emily Murrell, Policy Programme Director:
“We echo the call to translate the ambition of the Global Stocktake into tangible implementation. Clear, pragmatic roadmaps are essential to set near- and long-term actions that provide signals and long-term certainty to financial stakeholders. These frameworks are key to unlocking the investment needed to accelerate a just and equitable transition, and to align financial flows with a resilient, net-zero future.”
Buro Happold – Duncan Price, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Global Lead:
“An energy transition roadmap will provide context for city policy makers and confidence for investors so that we can move from ambition to action and deliver a wide set of social, economic and environmental benefits.”
C40 – Caterina Sarfatti, Managing Director:
“C40 strongly supports this roadmap, if agreed it would be one of the most unexpected and historical wins humanity needs in one of its most challenging moments. How can we not support it? C40 cities have committed to collectively halving fossil fuel use by the end of this decade – we are already delivering. For this COP to be the COP of implementation it needs implementers at its heart.”
Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership – Eliot Whittington, Executive Director and Chief Systems Change Officer:
“The world needs to put its foot down and accelerate to a clean, electric future – this offers the best opportunity for affordable energy, economic growth and climate action. To do so we need a roadmap to get away from fossil fuels – until now the dominant energy source for modern civilisation. COP30 has given governments a critical opportunity to agree such a roadmap and give private business and finance the clarity they need to step up the pace of investment in the future. Governments should seize the moment and leave Belem with a clear and credible energy transition plan.”
Carbon Tracker – Richard Folland, Head of Policy:
“One of the primary, possibly defining, judgments on this COP will be whether it can deliver on a roadmap for fossil fuel phase-out. It will be almost beyond parody (if not surprising in this looking-glass world) if the single largest climate problem — emissions from oil, gas and coal — can’t be properly addressed because it wasn’t on the formal agenda.”
CLG Chile – María Teresa Ruiz-Tagle, Executive Director:
“From Latin America — a region that has made bold progress in renewable energy — we believe the world is ready to deliver a roadmap for electrification that is not only credible, but catalytic. One that accelerates the shift across sectors, ensures energy security, enables agile permitting, mobilizes finance, makes prices affordable, fosters technological innovation, and pushes a just transition at its core. This roadmap must be built collectively — with businesses, researchers, governments, and citizens — and grounded in cooperation and regional integration, so it becomes not just a plan, but a mandate for implementation, resilience, and shared prosperity.”
Climate Group – Dr. Champa Patel, Executive Director Governments and Policy:
“The businesses, states and regions we work with aren’t waiting – they’re already implementing climate action at a scale that often outpaces national governments. But they need clarity to go further. A fossil fuel roadmap would unlock that. With support growing, the world has a brief window to act.”
Climate Leadership Coalition – Tuuli Kaskinen, CEO:
“Every country has a different starting point, but the destination is the same: a just transition away from fossil fuels. A clear roadmap from COP30 will unlock investment and accelerate clean energy markets.”
Ellen MacArthur Foundation – Jocelyn Blériot, Executive Lead, Policy and Institutions:
“As we mark 10 years since the Paris Agreement and implement the Global Stocktake, COP30 must invigorate climate action to keep the goal of limiting to a 1.5 degree increase in scope. A roadmap from world leaders on transitioning away from fossil fuels is key to doing this, accelerating the delivery of the clean energy transition that harnesses the full potential of circular economy strategies.”
Exponential Roadmap Initiative – Johan Falk, CEO and co-founder:
“The direction of travel is clear: globally we need to transition away from fossil fuels. What we need now is a clear and coherent roadmap, with time-bound targets, showing the concrete commitments from governments that will get us there.”
Galvanised – Oliver Hurrey, Founder:
“The Scope 3 Peer Group, and our 3,000 corporate professional members, fully supports the WMBC COP30 Roadmap Joint Letter. Clear alignment and coordinated supplier action are essential to making real progress on value chain emissions, and this roadmap helps provide exactly that.”
Green Hydrogen Organisation – Joe Williams, CEO:
“Our future energy system will be built on renewables and not fossil fuels. A decisive roadmap shifting us away from fossil fuels is essential for governments and companies to quickly ensure renewables clean up our electricity for grids and for green hydrogen to decarbonise steel, fertilizers, shipping and aviation.”
RedCAT Group – Professor Miranda Barker, Chair:
“We, as businesses, call for the unanimous recognition of the importance of the transition towards clean electrification and renewables. The signing of a fossil fuel roadmap proposition by all governments would at long last give true recognition to the biggest climate challenge — and opportunity — of our lifetimes.”
REN21 – Rana Adib, Executive Director:
“This roadmap — shifting from fossil fuels to renewables – is the only way to build strong, equitable and resilient economies. Recognising that it goes beyond a simple fuel switch, to a systems change in every sector. Delivering this at COP30 underscores our collective responsibility to make renewables the backbone of the new global economy and society – and to act with the ambition this moment demands.”
Skift – Bjørn K. Haugland, CEO:
“A well-designed transition is not a burden, but an opportunity for economic modernisation, global competitiveness, and resilient clean-energy growth. Businesses need a clear, credible fossil-fuel transition roadmap from COP30 to guide long-term investment and reduce risk. For companies to mobilise capital at scale, governments must send stable, forward-looking signals that make the direction of travel unmistakable.”
Spanish Green Growth Group – Carmen Navarro Gómez, Managing Director:
“A robust fossil fuel roadmap is an essential outcome of COP30 and would provide the certainty needed to accelerate investment in clean energy and industrial transformation.”
TechUK – Matt Evans, COO and Director of Markets:
“The tech sector has set ambitious climate targets and is driving investments in renewables, but we need help. The international community needs to come together in the final hours of COP 30 and signal to business and investors that fossil fuels are definitively on the way out.”
We Mean Business Coalition – Maria Mendiluce, CEO:
“At COP30 we know the real economy is telling us two things: clean energy is accelerating fast, and fossil fuels can be phased out. Business has adjusted its investment decisions to these facts. Now governments need to be bold enough to align national policy with the transition that is already happening. A roadmap from COP30 would give countries the clarity and structure needed to catch up on the emissions reductions gap.”
World Benchmarking Alliance – Vicky Sins, Climate Transformation Lead:
“A fossil-fuel phase-out roadmap is the bridge between political ambition and real-world transformation. It gives governments, investors and companies the certainty they need to align capital and accelerate credible transition plans. With more than 80 countries now calling at COP30 for a clear pathway to transition away from coal, oil and gas, this is the moment to match intentions with implementation. The World Benchmarking Alliance supports this call, because clarity at COP30 is essential to break the cycle of delay between policy and business action – and to send a signal that the shift to clean energy is irreversible.”
