Exciting news, updates from Belém and highlights from a year that pushed renewables forward

As we look back on 2025, a clear shift comes into view. What began as steady progress grew into clear acceleration. Record solar generation, renewables surpassing coal, and clean power outpacing global demand show what’s possible when action takes root. More recently, COP30 echoed this: action is materialising, promise is building, but deeper, faster scaling is essential to stay on course—and it leaves us asking what it will take to turn this year’s signals into the systemic shifts the future demands.

This final 2025 newsletter offers a snapshot of our network’s achievements in sustaining this shift this year, along with fresh milestones from Belém and beyond.

Once again, we want to thank all of our partners for their inspiring work. We look forward to working with you on an even more ambitious 2026 together.

Community spotlight

ReNew2030 receives transformative gift to accelerate the global power sector transition

We are thrilled to announce that ReNew2030 has been entrusted with a great responsibility by MacKenzie Scott via her foundation Yield Giving with an unrestricted gift. As one of several climate collaboratives receiving funding through this initiative, this generous support will empower ReNew2030 partners around the world to scale up their high-impact work—helping accelerate a faster, more equitable power sector transition to renewables.

We’re deeply grateful and humbled by this opportunity, which will deepen our engagement and scale impact across our priority regions.

Implementation at the centre of the transition

At COP30, we focused on how the power sector transition is being delivered on the ground. To showcase this shift, we convened two events: one on the urgent need for modern, interconnected grids that can carry rapidly growing renewable power, and another on how distributed renewables are scaling through community leadership, innovative finance, and measurable livelihood gains in Latin America and Asia.

We also joined 70+ initiatives in signing the Action Agenda letter, urging negotiators to stay ambitious and advance the collective efforts needed to turn proven solutions into sustained long-term action.

→ Read more about how ReNew2030’s projects are delivering renewable energy and improving livelihoods across China, Mexico, and Brazil

New coalition poised to supercharge Latin America’s clean energy future

Latin America’s renewable energy potential is vast, and now there’s a powerful new engine to help drive it. With support from our partners at the Pooled fund on International Energy (PIE), the Latin America Clean Energy Coalition (LACEC) was launched at COP30. It unites companies, developers, financiers, civil society and policymakers to unlock investment and accelerate solutionsfor affordable, accessible clean energy.

Starting in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, LACEC aims to fill a critical gap and help accelerate renewable deployment in the region, contributing to the global effort to triple renewables by 2030.

→ Read more about this exciting new initiative

“To keep global climate goals within reach, we can’t simply restate ambition; we must accelerate deployment wherever it can make the biggest impact. That means every megawatt we can bring online faster, every policy we can unblock, every financing barrier we can remove, matters profoundly in keeping 1.5°C alive. The choice is simple: seize this tipping point, or risk watching it slip away.”

2025 Snapshot: From progress to scale

Turning data and stories into public momentum

This year, our network strengthened public understanding and support for renewable energy by expanding access to reliable information. We mobilised youth in Mexico, brought energy communities to life across Central and Eastern Europe through creative, community-rooted outreach, and launched the PowerTracker tool in South Africa, empowering journalists to advance a transparent, just transition to renewables—see how the tool is strengthening people-centred reporting in our latest video below.

Raising ambition through evidence and advocacy

We worked alongside partners to advance stronger government action, including Tara Climate Foundation, whose leadership helped accelerate offshore wind momentum across Asia and launch the Just Energy Transition Community, uniting philanthropy and local partners to scale people-first clean-energy solutions. In parallel, Instituto Clima e Sociedade developed an inclusive green-industrialisation training programme in Brazil to help shape industrial policies that strengthen a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Communities leading their energy future

We helped local partners drive people-centred organising that made the benefits of renewables tangible—from lower energy bills to cleaner air and more reliable power. This work spanned community-led energy solutions across Latin America, practical distributed renewable solutions in China, and a growing energy democracy movement in Europe, all strengthening public participation in the transition to cleaner, fairer power systems.

Unlocking capital for a fair transition

To drive investment at the scale needed, innovative financial mechanisms emerged in 2025. In Senegal, the African Climate Foundation launched the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Fund, linking philanthropy, policy and private finance; and PIE introduced the Global Grids Catalyst, accelerating global grid modernisation where it’s most urgent. Together, these initiatives show finance shifting from intent to action.