About Us
GLOBE legislators take a holistic view of the interconnected challenges of sustainability and seek collaborative, cross-party solutions in the public interest. They share a commitment to defending democracy and restoring trust in democratic institutions in increasingly polarised societies. Since 2019, through its innovative Student MP Climate Surgeries, launched at the first London Climate Action Week (2019), GLOBE has placed particular emphasis on working with young people and improving political education for engaged citizenship.
GLOBE International, also known as GLOBE Legislators, is a non-partisan, cross-party parliamentary organisation dedicated to improving governance for sustainable development. Founded in 1991 by Senators Al Gore, John Kerry and their counterparts in the European Parliament, Russian Duma and Japanese Diet, GLOBE International has grown to include legislators from every global region. GLOBE members have been instrumental in the establishment of legislation on climate change, biodiversity and natural resource protection in parliaments across the world. GLOBE’s current work includes supporting implementation of the Rio Conventions (climate change, biodiversity, desertification), the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Since COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, GLOBE has served as the first-ever UNFCCC Focal Point for the Parliamentary Group, providing a platform for more effective engagement by the world’s parliamentarians in global and regional climate change and sustainable development policy processes.
GLOBE Legislators serves as the first ever Focal Point for the UNFCCC Informal Parliamentary Group, working strictly on a non-partisan, cross-party basis in accordance with GLOBE’s ethos.
As the oldest parliamentary network active on climate change since the beginning of the UNFCCC in 1995, GLOBE has provided an annual service to parliamentarians active on climate change through its annual COP Legislators Summits. In 2021, ahead of COP26, GLOBE took this service role one step further by initiating the first ever Focal Point role at the UNFCCC, with the support of the UNFCCC Secretariat and endorsement by six other founding members.
Since then GLOBE has provided information, coordination, networking and capacity building services to a growing array of parliamentary organisation and networks across party lines to accelerate climate action.
In 2023 at COP28, GLOBE introduced another game changer for parliamentary engagement at the UNFCCC, by initiating the first ever Parliamentary Pavilion as a physical, on site hub for parliamentarians, offering a packed programme of live-streamed events across the two weeks of COP. The Pavilion events are available to view and download as the COP28 and COP29 Parliamentary Pavilion playlists respectively on GLOBE’s YouTube channel.
