A diverse panel shares how high-integrity climate actions can simultaneously advance climate adaptation, resilience, biodiversity, and social justice goals. With global and local insights, the event supports the COP30 “Global Mutirão” vision and deeper collaboration across the Rio Conventions.
Join us at COP30!
- Thursday, 20 November 2025
- 18:30–20:00
- Side Event Room 2
As the climate and biodiversity crises intensify, the COP30 Presidency has introduced the idea of a global mutirão: a collective, community-driven effort to accelerate action across governments, cities, businesses, Indigenous Peoples, science, and civil society.
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Explore approaches to high-integrity climate action that deliver real benefits for climate, nature, and communities, reinforcing COP30’s Global Mutirão vision.
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Identify actionable pathways for advancing justice in climate and nature action, addressing structural inequalities and informing the road ahead for the Global Climate Action Agenda.
- Lauri Peterson, Senior Researcher, University of Eastern Finland
- Joanes Atela, Executive Director, Africa Research Impact Network (ARIN)
- Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue, Associate Professor, Radboud University
- Janaína de Araújo Bumbeer, Project Manager – Biodiversity Conservation, Boticário Group Foundation for Nature Protection
- Leonardo Letelier, CEO, Sitawi Finance for Good
- Karin Bäckstrand, Professor, Political Science, Stockholm University.
If you’re at COP30, we’d love to see you in Side Event Room 2.
If you’re following remotely, stay tuned for updates from our partner organizations.

Image credit: Amazonia, Brazil, by Sébastien Goldberg from Unsplash
