COP30 events

This event will feature a dialogue among representatives from government agencies, corporations, Indigenous leaders and NGOs on how to drive greater investment for climate and nature impacts via bioeconomy efforts. The participants will discuss their experience and lessons learned from concrete projects that bring together key value chain actors to stimulate a restoration and regenerative production economy that delivers climate outcomes and livelihood benefits for ecosystems and producer communities. It will showcase results from Indigenous peoples, coffee sector and restoration economy initiatives.

This session will share insights and the latest efforts made by various institutions to strengthen direct access for Indigenous peoples and local communities. The panelists will discuss the institutional mechanisms that have been created to support and strengthen Indigenous peoples’ direct access to climate funds. They will share lessons learned and best practices with institutional programs and projects that have strengthened Indigenous peoples’ direct access and reduced intermediation so that more resources reach communities. How can transparent dialogue and connection be facilitated to bridge donor interests linked to global goals and Indigenous peoples’ genuine interest in self-development?

This session explores the interdependence of freshwater, biodiversity, and food systems in the Amazon Basin and how Nature-based Solutions can become adaptation pathways and enhance climate resilience both for communities and biodiversity conservation.

This high-level session will explore how carbon markets, when designed and implemented with integrity, can accelerate climate ambition, protect tropical forests, and deliver equitable outcomes for IPLCs. It will showcase community-led models from the Asia Pacific, Australia, and Amazon regions, highlighting the dual facets of NCS and Carbon market integrity in delivering meaningful outcomes.

Join The Nature Conservancy and special guests for a reception highlighting innovations in unlocking finance for the solutions our planet urgently needs. Celebrate a decade of breakthroughs and bold approaches that prove we can tackle climate change, protect nature and strengthen communities at scale.

This event marks the launch of the program developed by the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB) to advance land demarcation as a climate solution. It will demonstrate how secure Indigenous territories are fundamental to achieving climate and biodiversity targets and will highlight opportunities for scaling Indigenous-led solutions through direct access to climate and forest finance, including the TFFF and FTTG Finance Pledge. The session will showcase Indigenous leadership while engaging governments, donors, and multilateral institutions in building new alliances.

With a focus on beef and soy, two major drivers of land use change, this high-level discussion will highlight how financial innovations and supply chain partnerships can support farmers to produce on already-cleared lands, while protecting forests, savannas, and other critical ecosystems in Latin America. Government, finance, and private sector leaders will share insights from active regional initiatives — including the Pará Sustainable Cattle Program, VISEC and CCAT — to demonstrate how the private sector can support investment and procurement approaches that align with global climate targets, biodiversity goals, and corporate sustainability commitments.

This session will bring together governments, funders, and practitioners to showcase cutting edge approaches to coastal resilience, including the use of the Coastal Resilience Methodology, as a catalyst for scaling investment and meeting adaptation targets.

The event will showcase tangible solutions and leadership pathways for Indigenous and grassroots women in climate governance, finance, and delivering nature-based solutions on ground. It will launch a practical action agenda for climate developed by Nature’s Leading Women; a diverse gathering held in Australia late 2024 that centered grassroots women’s leadership across Australia, Pacific Island Nations and Africa.

COMPOUNDING POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES ARE RESHAPING OUR WORLD – AND THE GAP BETWEEN CLIMATE RHETORIC AND REALITY HAS NEVER BEEN WIDER.

Trust in global institutions is eroding, and skepticism is justified. The world doesn’t need more promises. It needs a new vision that confronts the realities people live with — and insists that something better is still possible.

Belém, the gateway to the Amazon, will set the stage for COP30 – a place where the stakes of the climate crisis are immediate and tangible. Against this backdrop, TED Countdown House will bring together innovators, business leaders, scientists, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers to reimagine what’s possible. Designed to complement the official COP agenda, we’ll ground the climate conversation in lived experience, practical solutions and honest reckoning.

In a world flooded with noise, the House is tuned to what matters: substance over spectacle, outcomes over optics. Here, breakthroughs are engineered – through curated gatherings that dismantle silos, immersive workshops where ideas are stress-tested in real time, and unstructured moments that foster creativity.

The Brazilian government has decided to bring forward the COP30 Heads of State Summit, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is now scheduled to take place on November 6 and 7, 2025, in Belém, the capital of the state of Pará. The summit is part of the official activities of the conference, which will run from November 10 to 21, and will place Brasil at the center of global discussions on climate change.