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ONE PLANET CITY CHALLENGE 2025-26

Welcome webinar

Join the Welcome webinar March 5

New to the One Planet City Challenge and eager to learn more? Or ready to rejoin and take your city to the next level? Mark your calendars for the launch of the One Planet City Challenge 2025-2026.
Join us on March 5th to learn what’s happening in this edition of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) and get inspired by some of our frontrunners’ OPCC-stories. What has participation meant for their climate journey, and what motivates them to return each round? This is the first step of an exciting new chapter of the OPCC 2025-26. Together, we can build a climate-safe future.

Register here:

Session 1, 9am CET good for Asia, Africa and Europe
Session 2, 4pm CET good for America, Europe and Africa

Participating in the OPCC

WWF is inviting cities to join the One Planet City Challenge 2025-26. More information about WWFs global initiative will soon be available. Welcome to contact us at opcc@wwf.se

As an OPCC participant, you will get access to numerous resources to help you align with the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C and incorporate science-based climate action. You can read more about the Strategic Feedback Report and other benefits of joining the OPCC here. Check out our information hub below for more material.

We also offer capacity-building webinars to support you in the development of your climate action plan. In these webinars, you will receive guided expertise on recognized international standards and tools and become part of a global community of city practitioners. You can find an overview of the OPCC 2023 Webinar Series below. Webinars from previous OPCC cycles are available on our YouTube channel.

Local or regional WWF contacts

For local or regional WWF contacts, send us an email at opcc@wwf.se and we’ll connect you!

Enhance your reputation

WWF is recognizing and awarding best performing cities as finalists and winners.

Strengthen your climate work

Finalist cities can participate in WWF’s international social media enabled public engagement campaign We Love Cities. In 2022 We Love Cities reached over 400 million globally and garnered over 1.3 million votes.

Be part of a global community

Participating cities can access capacity-building webinars organized by WWF along with specific local programs and events run by local WWF offices – building their network and strengthening their work through peer exchange.

Strengthen your climate work

Each participant receives a Strategic Feedback report with the results of our assessment. This includes information on whether submitted targets align with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to a maximum of 1.5°C. We do this based on data from IPCC’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C (2018).

Enhance your reputation.

National and global frontrunners are rewarded with public recognition and helped to promote their actions and plans to their citizens.

Strengthen your climate work

We review whether the climate action plans are well-balanced towards the 1.5 °C goal, and provide high level guidance on the most effective actions to meet such targets – helping cities translate the IPCC findings to their context.

Be part of a global community

Participating cities can join hundreds of other cities and be counted in the global climate arena – becoming part of the call for science-based climate action. Inspire other cities to act through your participation!

6 secrets of successful cities

Read our latest study on how leading cities successfully implement ambitious climate policies.

London, Mexico City and KwaDukuza share their secrets to success in this inspiring WWF Cities Webinar.

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