Bridging Systems and Solutions for Climate, People and Nature

About Us

We are a vibrant movement of practitioners and changemakers, connecting individuals and organizations committed to shaping a thriving future for climate, people, and planet.

We create spaces for deep collaboration, fostering heart-to-heart connection and shared purpose across diverse communities. By nurturing a growing ecosystem, we strengthen individual agency, activate the power of collective action, and build resilience where it is most needed.

We catalyze systemic transformation by facilitating inclusive multi‑stakeholder dialogues and task forces that bring together leaders from government, business, and civil society.

We empower and inspire emerging and established leaders — particularly women and youth — through educational programs, workshops, and mentorship initiatives like Be One Mentoring, equipping them with tools to drive meaningful climate solutions.

We promote resilience and sustainable food systems through strategic partnerships — including FAO and the UNDP Global Conscious Food Systems initiative — advocating whole‑food, plant‑based approaches as pathways to planetary and human well‑being.

Why It Matters:

We believe positive change is born from radical collaboration. By activating collective action and valuing diversity and inclusion, we can help restore planetary balance, foster inner development, and build resilient, thriving futures for all.

Measuring our impact

Our annual reports highlight the collective efforts, partnerships and outcomes that drive Climate Bridges’ work—placing women’s and youth leadership at the heart of climate action, the well-being economy and food systems transformation.

  • In 2025, Climate Bridges delivered high-impact action despite a challenging context: convening 30+ finance and climate partners and 400+ participants through Multistakeholder Finance Dialogues, advancing a citizen finance initiative toward the legislative process, and helping catalyse a major alliance at COP30 around We-Fi to close the climate finance gap for women-led initiatives. The year also marked strong advocacy for gender-responsive climate action—celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the 1st anniversary of the Geneva Pledge—and the launch of a new, values-led way of working through mindfulness-based leadership, as well as the pilot Summer Solstice Earth Stewardship Retreat. Across UN, finance and multilateral forums, Climate Bridges brought a spirit of collaboration, care and “Being One with the Earth” into spaces shaping climate, food and finance decisions.

    Access the full report here.

  • In 2024, Climate Bridges advanced systemic climate action by transforming climate finance, amplifying youth voices at COP29, empowering over 200 climate leaders worldwide through the Be One Mentoring Program, and strengthening global partnerships across food systems and policy arenas. From championing equitable financial mechanisms to fostering intergenerational leadership and collaboration with UN and agrifood partners, our work demonstrated the power of bridging people, sectors, and ideas.

    Access the full report here.

Our Story: From Individual Leadership to a Global Movement

Climate Bridges emerged from more than two decades of leadership in climate action, systems thinking, and inclusive dialogue — work led and shaped by our founder, Elise Buckle. Her commitment to empowering women and youth, building coalitions, and advancing systemic solutions laid the groundwork for what would become Climate Bridges. Today, that foundation has grown into a global movement that unites practitioners, communities, and partners to build bridges for Climate, People and Nature.

  • First country profiles and community-based studies on disaster risk reduction and vulnerability (UNDPandUN-ECLAC) inLDCs and Latin America

  • Donor reporting for a pioneering program of micro-credit and school feeding in Tajikistan (ACTED)

  • REACH+ campaign to protect citizens’ health and the environment across Europe (EU Parliament)

  • Design and Launch of first participatory Agenda 21 for the City of Narbonne (Ernst & Young)

  • G20 Summit decision agreed on climate finance, under the French Presidency adopted innovative sources of finance for climate and development (WWF)

  • COP22, the COP of sustainable business and low carbon solutions (WBCSD)

  • COP23 Presidency Talanoa Dialogue adoption for raising climate ambition and including many voices (COP Presidency)

  • 2018 Climate Vulnerable Forum Summit first ever online Heads of States Summit and One Planet Summits stepping up climate ambition (CAN-International) with 42 Heads of States and Governments and 6000+ participants

  • 2019 Nature-Based Solutions Coalition launched at the UN Secretary General Climate Action Summit in New York with 33 Ministers, CEOs of 20 large multinational, 500+ partners

  • 2020-2022 Planetary Emergency Partnership development, growing from 30 to 300 partners and call for action supported by 3,500+ leaders and scientists covered in the Financial Times and with influence on the G20, the IMF/World and the EU Green Deal launched by the EU Commission

  • 2021-2022: Nature Positive Economic Recovery packages adopted covering EU Member States to scale up finance for climate and nature positive investments

  • 2021-2023: Creation and development of SHE Changes Climate, first open letter to COP26 UK Presidency adopted by 400+ women leaders and covered in global media, then 100+ leaders in the lead up to COP27 in Egypt and first Ministerial on Gender and Climate Change hosted by the COP27 Presidency

  • 2023: COP 28 online Summit with Sultan Al Jaber, COP28 Presidency and Mary Robinson covered in 60+ media outlets around the world, with a global outreach of 12 Million views worldwide leading to public pressure and adoption of the first COP decision to transition away from fossil fuels in this critical decade

  • 2024: COP29 Presidency decision to include 11 women on the high-level organizing committee following global press statement coverage by the Guardian

  • March 2024: Founder received Women for Change Award at Paris Change NOW Summit and selection as top ten most influential women by IEA Women

  • 2022-2024: creation and development of SHE Builds Bridges for Climate Action in Switzerland and beyond and Be One Mentoring Platform with nearly 400 users from around the world.

  • November 2024: Launch of the Geneva pledge for gender responsive climate finance at the UN and endorsement by 80+ member states and organizations through the International Gender Champions International network

  • March 2025: Launch of the Open Letter signed by over 200 women leaders across Switzerland from both finance and climate sectors endorsing the citizen-led Sustainable Finance Initiative. 3 multi-stakeholder dialogues: Engaging 30 partners, across 6 different sectors and industries mobilizing 442 participants. The finance initiative how now gathered 145,000 signatures and has been received by the Federal Government to become a formal legislative proposal.

  • July 2025: Inaugural Earth Stewards retreat at Les Marions in Burgundy, France.