Our Vision
We envision a future where collective action has set a new course for humanity: limiting climate change, protecting biodiversity, revitalizing economies, and safeguarding those most at risk. It’s about more than reaching ambitious global agreements — it’s about respecting the delicate balance that sustains all life, so people, nature, and our beautiful planet can thrive together…today and for generations to come.
CEMUNE's Mission
Solving the world’s biggest sustainability challenges demands the world’s best negotiators: those equipped with the professionalism and knowledge required to achieve success in multilateral processes.
That’s why CEMUNE supports policymakers with the knowledge, skills and advice they need to reach transformative global sustainability agreements. With more than a decade of neutral, non-aligned experience, we’re the “honest brokers” leaders look to when they need support and advice they can trust.
Yet, we know that these international agreements are only as good as their implementation back home.
That’s why CEMUNE created Business4Climate in 2024 – a groundbreaking initiative that helps business leaders and other stakeholders translate complex international agreements and regulations into ground-level actions.
Collaboration is the beating heart of CEMUNE’s work. We believe it’s more than just an effective strategy to address the world's pressing environmental challenges; it’s our only option.
What Global Leaders Are Saying About CEMUNE
Like the proverb that says, prevention is better than cure! CEMUNE made a great response by organizing the informal workshop previous to the COP26 in Glasgow. I felt personally the application of s...
Conservation International Senior Fellow
I and my team benefited from Kai Monheim's lessons learned from previous presidencies (...) it has in no small ways contributed to the success of paris
Former Head of Environment and Climate Division, French Foreign Ministry
There is definitely an urgent need to learn more systematically from past negotiation processes to make them more successful in the future.
Former head of the UNFCCC
This is a great initiative, which I fully support. In multilateral negotiations, the quality of the process is as important as the substance in order to reach significant agreements.
Former acting UNFCCC Executive Secretary, President COP16
This centre represents a great opportunity to provide negotiation chairs with facilitation best practices, and thereby accelerate the crafting of multilateral agreements on trade and other global i...
Former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Negotiations cannot be improvised if they are to be successful. An understanding of the rules and dynamics inherent in any multilateral negotiation are as important as knowledge of the substance. A...
Former Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC
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