Focali members at COP30 in Belém - Updates and Reflections

Stay tuned below for “live - soon after” updates from members of the Focali research network participating in Climate COP30 in Belém Brazil 10-21 November. Short updates and reflections from some of the members will be shared here during and after COP30. For additional updates on activities, they will be involved in follow them and Focali on Linked In. All members below participate via their own organizations (not via support from or for Focali) but all members in the Focali network will be active in Focali relevant themes and collaborations during COP30.

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Updates, reflections and photos from Focali members participating in COP30 in Belém
The latest reflection published at the top and source at the end of each reflection

09 November: Pre-COP Reflection by Focali member Toby Gardner, SEI and Trase:

“Just arrived in Belem and COP 30, the first time back to a place I know and lived in 8 years. The warmth of the people and their evident pride in hosting what could be the most consequential climate summit since Paris is hugely energizing. As is the drive that so many civil society and indigenous organizations are bringing to this iconic city at the mouth of the Amazon. (…) Trust and the synergies needed to drive collective action are perhaps two of the most important ingredients for the COP process and the international "mutirao" that the Brazilian presidency of COP 30 has championed - the need for collective action to accelerate implementation of the solutions that we know exist.  And trust and the spirit of collective action are at the heart of the Call of Belem for Climate that was published at the end of the Leaders Summit on Friday.

And I take the spirit of mutirao to heart personally. Collective wisdom, collective responsibility and collective ambition and action are the things we need most of all right now. In the blizzard of events and side meetings that are to come in the next two weeks we need to go beyond the ritualized procession of pre-canned individual speeches that bring little in the way of novelty and honesty. Instead we need to use these precious and costly moments to try and leave with more connection - between individuals, between ideas, between organizations so we can make the whole greater than the sum of the parts.” (Read full reflection in original post by Toby Gardner on his Linked In where this reflection was first published)