Build Clean Now: a global campaign to fast-track clean industry

22 September 2025, New York – Today, at Climate Week NYC, saw the launch of Build Clean Now, a global campaign from the Industrial Transition Accelerator, with a clear mission: to accelerate, year-on-year, the financing and construction of clean industrial plants, building unstoppable momentum toward 800+ projects by 2030.

Today nearly 70 clean industrial plants are operating worldwide, and more than 700 are in development across 70 countries. Together, these represent a $1.6 trillion[1] investment opportunity – but fewer than 15 projects[2] a year currently secure the finance necessary to progress.

Build Clean Now has a simple and urgent mission: to speed up the pace at which clean industrial plants are financed and built, moving rapidly from hundreds of projects on paper to hundreds breaking ground.

The near-term ambition of the campaign is to move at least 50 projects to final investment decision (FID) over 2025-26, creating momentum for hundreds more by 2030.

Faustine Delasalle, CEO of the Industrial Transition Accelerator, said:
“We are on the brink of a clean industry revolution. The projects are ready; the economic and social benefits are both clear and within reach. What we need now is bold, coordinated action.  Governments, companies and finance can unlock the investment that will turn plans into progress the world over. The moment is here – let’s build clean now.”

Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC [and a co-chair of the ITA], in his keynote Climate Week speech strongly backed Build Clean Now:
“In the next five years we can unleash huge progress – powered by innovators and entrepreneurs, enabled by Paris-aligned governments, creating millions of good jobs. That is why I fully support Build Clean Now – a global initiative to fast-track clean industry shifts, led by the Industrial Transition Accelerator.”

Build Clean Now combines on-the-ground mobilisation with a global communications effort to raise ambition and inspire action. The campaign will:

• Celebrate and share clean industry success stories, in particular newly-financed projects.
• Share intelligence from real-world project experience on the most effective actions to fast-track plans into plants.
• Run between 10-20 country workshops before the end of 2026, bringing together policy makers, industry leaders, investors and civil society, to identify solutions to unlock local projects.

Build Clean Now is an initiative of the Industrial Transition Accelerator and Mission Possible Partnership, in consultation with a network of global partners and collaborators.

For further details, please contact:

Kate Levine, ITA Communications Lead: kate.levine@missionpossiblepartnership.org