Moving for Climate NOW is an initiative to create awareness at the international level on the importance of acting now against climate change. It is also the story of a journey: one undertaken by a group of experts, on electric bicycles, to deliver a message on the urgency of uniting to combat climate change to the Climate Summits (COP). Since COP21 in France, Moving for Climate NOW has travelled more than 4,500 km and built a network of more than 190 participants from a variety of areas of influence across its sixth in-person editions. In 2021 it has completed its 6th edition, arriving to the COP26 held in Glasgow under the Presidency of the UK in partnership with Italy.
Meet the Team
We present the people from different organisations and countries who form the committed team of cyclists that have pedalled for the climate.
Víctor Viñuales Edo
UN Global Compact Network Spain
Carlos Sallé Alonso
Iberdrola
Ana Barreira
Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente (IIDMA)
Ana Hajduka
Africa GreenCo
Ángel Cano
Asociación Despierta
Carlos Calvo Ambel
Transport & Environment
Chema Sarri
Peace Boat
Elisabeth Press
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Eyal Ben-Zwi
SEforALL
Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera
Iberdrola
Ibon Galarraga
Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
Isabel Rico Vazquez
Spanish National Rugby Team
Isabel Moreno
Televisión Española (TVE)
Iván Martínez Castro
Spanish Office for Climate Change
Jacopo Tattini
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Jorge Cattaneo
Ayuda en Acción
Juan Luis Cano
Journalist
K.C. Michaels
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Kevin Knosala
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Laura Merrill
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Luke Mills
Bloomberg NEF
María de la Fuente
Peace Boat
Marina Grossi
Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS)
Mercedes Martín
Antena 3 TV
Marine Gorner
International Energy Agency
Olivia Chen
International Energy Agency
Patricia Peiró
El País
Pedro Linares
Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid
Robyn McGuckin
P4G (Partnerships for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030)
Sameer Ahmad
SEforALL
Santiago Martinez
Iberdrola
Sina Tabrizi
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Solange Maria Pinto Ribeiro
Neoenergia
Sonia Castañeda
Ministry for Ecological Transition
Suzana Kahn Ribeiro
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
COP26 Edition
Our COP26 edition of Moving for Climate NOW has taken our electric bicycle route on a 4-stage trip departing from Edinburgh on Saturday, November 6th and arriving at COP26 in Glasgow on Tuesday, November 9th. Upon arrival at COP26, the team has delivered its Manifesto to the authorities of COP26 and UNFCCC requesting urgent action and determination to increase collective climate ambition and boost progress towards climate neutrality, which is particularly urgent now we have entered the Decade of Action.
During four days, the group of 15 cyclists made up of representatives from international bodies, governments, universities, conservationists and business groups, has covered more than 270 km on electric bikes, some of them stopping off at some of Scotland's most symbolic energy sites to talk about the manifesto.
You can find more details on the journey and on the messages sent by our participants in the section “Messages from the route”.
After completing our cycling route and the conclusion of COP24, we are proud to have delivered our message on the urgency to act together against climate change, showing the importance of building alliances to reach our objectives. If you have missed the details of this exciting adventure, we encourage you to check our Route Diary.
Route Diary
Moving for Climate Now: Previous Editions
Moving for Climate NOW completed its fifth edition in 2019, with the cycling team having already travelled more than 4,200 kilometres since the first one, which took them from Bilbao to COP21 in Paris in an initiative organized by employees of Iberdrola (Just2Challenge). After then, under the motto Moving for Climate NOW, they have reached the COP22 in Marrakech from Seville, the COP23 in Bonn from Paris, the COP24 in Katowice, Poland, from Vienna and Salamanca-Madrid (COP25). In 2020, we mobilized the Moving for Climate NOW network across the world to deliver our Manifesto virtually during the UNFCCC Climate Change Dialogues 2020.
Voices Against Climate Change
Voices Against Climate Change
The new IPCC report reinforces that global economies must take bold measures to rapidly reduce emissions in line with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C. We urge the world’s governments to go all in by incentivizing the global economy to shift away rapidly from polluting activities, and to scale up climate solutions. This is essential for getting all actors across the value chain on board, and for helping avoid every fraction of a degree of temperature rise that will define whether or not we can look forward to a thriving, secure and resilient future.Gonzalo Sáenz de Miera – Director of Climate Change and Alliances, Iberdrola
Climate change is a systemic challenge; we must work together to break down barriers and release our shared potential; Moving for Climate NOW does just that.Sam Gardner - Head of Climate Change & Sustainability, ScottishPower
Many countries have put forward new commitments for COP26. While climate ambition has never been higher, energy transitions have a long way to go. Governments must give the signal to drive investment in a net-zero future.Tom Howes - Head of the Energy and Environment Division, International Energy Agency (IEA)
For me, the greatest achievement of COP 26 would be to move from ambition to implementation on the part of all concerned parties – above all, central governments and major corporations.Paul Simons - Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University
Local action will play a key part of delivering net-zero. Cities and communities are the places where people can come together around common goals, where collective action can be harnessed, and where we can start to break down unhelpful silos to drive more ambitious action.Rebecca Ford - Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
It's crucial that the vulnerable don’t get left behind in the journey to Net Zero.Gerry Gilmurray - Social Obligations Coordinator, ScottishPower
We need systemic changes. We must start by questioning everything we know and do. If something is wrong, we must improve it and make it right. We must educate ourselves, raise awareness, take responsibility and understand that everything is interconnected.Catalina Muñoz - Assistant professor, Institute for Sustainable Development of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
COP26 must act a springboard for an accelerated response to the climate crisis and partnerships across sectors will be critical to this. Moving for Climate NOW will help build those very same partnerships!Sam Gardner - Head of Climate Change & Sustainability, ScottishPower
No part of society can act against climate change alone. We all need to work together through collaboration and partnership, to protect those in greatest need and give us all a future.Hazel Gulliver - Director of Engagement, ScottishPower
The low carbon energy transition is just one of the key deliverables to achieving ~NetZero at COP26 – however it stands to act as the catalyst for several others. We need to electrify everything using clean, green power – ScottishPower is leading the way with 100% green generation.Lindsay McQuade - CEO ScottishPower Renewables
My work with IRENA reminds me every day that a clean, renewable energy future is not only possible, but also inevitable. The only question is whether the energy transition will happen in time to stave off a climate catastrophe. I urge the negotiators in Glasgow to clarify the concrete action they will be taking over the next 10 years not only to implement the Paris agreement, but to further ratchet up ambition.Claire Kiss - Associate Programme Officer, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Despite progress ahead of COP26, current climate pledges close less than 20% of the emissions gap between today’s policy settings and a net-zero by 2050 path. Technologies and policies, of which over 40% are cost-effective, can close this gap by 2030.Luca Lo Re - International climate policy analyst, International Energy Agency
Realizing the promise of Paris will require drawing the energy and climate change communities together in a closer, more trusting partnership.Paul Simons - Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University