!!! This article focuses on CIDSE’s activities at the official conference
and will be regularly updated.
CONTEXT
After years of COPs in countries and contexts that did not allow for the full participation and mobilisation of civil society, the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference (COP30) will take place in Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025. Great expectations are being placed on this upcoming gathering in the symbolic location of Belém, close to the Amazon region and indigenous communities at the forefront of climate action. For the first time in years, a People’s Summit will be also organised from 12 to 16 November. CIDSE will be present in both spaces. You are invited to check our dedicated page on activities in Belém outside the official conference.
OUR DELEGATION
The CIDSE delegation in Brazil will consist of Secretariat staff and representatives of the following member organisations: CAFOD, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Cordaid, Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, Entraide et Fraternité, Fastenaktion, FEC, Manos Unidas, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Misereor, SCIAF, Trócaire, and Vastenactie.
| OUR ADVOCACY PRIORITIES – Global response to the nationally determined contributions (NDC) ambition gap – Climate finance and debt – Just transition Read our Policy Brief and recommendations. |
PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES (all events are indicated in local time: GMT-3 | CET-4)
Venue: Hangar Convention and Fair Centre of the Amazon, Av. Dr. Freitas, s/n – Marco, Belém – PA, 66613-902 – Access badge required.
| TUE 11 NOVEMBER |
11:30-13:00: “The Moral Imperative of Climate Finance: Addressing Ecological Debt in a Jubilee Year”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 5. Co-organised by CAFOD, Caritas Internationalis, CRS, Debt & Climate Working Group, Living Laudato Si’ Philippines.
See flyer.
11:30-13:00: “Cities & community-led responses: For a Climate Justice Agenda in the IPCC Special Report on Cities”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 9. Co-organised by Misereor, Pólis Institute for Social Policy Studies, Gujarat Mahila Housing Sewa Trust (MHT), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing Ltd (WIEGO) and Youth for Unity and Voluntary Action (YUVA).
12:30-13:30: “Climate justice, NDCs’ implementation, and the contribution of faith groups“, Blue Zone, Cumaru Room, Brazilian Pavilion. Co-organised as part of the Ecumenical and Interreligious Tapiri COP30 initiative by Faith Network for Climate Justice.
16:45-18:15: “Communities in the driving seat: Carbon Markets safeguards and alternatives”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 6. Co-organised by Fastenaktion, CIDSE, ADMU, Carbon Market Watch, Cordilleras Peoples’ Alliance, Ibon Africa, Indígenas de Mato Grosso, NewClimate Institute, Oeko-Institut, OPAN, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation. See flyer.
16:45-18:15: “Responding to the Global South Catholic Bishops Conferences’ Call for Climate Justice”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4. Co-organised by Kairos, Maryknoll Sisters, PROCLADE International, Development and Peace-Caritas Canada, Medical Mission Sisters, Vivat International). See flyer.
| WED 12 NOVEMBER |
16:45-18:15: “Amazonia Free of Fossil Fuels: Indigenous Peoples present actionable solutions”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 6. Co-organised by MOCICC, Avaaz Foundation and ORAU.
| FRI 14 NOVEMBER |
18:30-20:00: “Integral Ecology and Climate Justice: Voices in the Struggle for Change”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4. Co-organised by SCIAF, Boston College and ESSC .
| SAT 15 NOVEMBER |
13:30-14:30:“High-Level Side Event / Round Table zu TAFF (Transitioning away from fossil fuels/Abkehr von Fossilen), A12, Blue Zone, German Pavilion (livestreamed), Misereor speaker.
| TUE 18 NOVEMBER |
11:15 – 12:15: “Pathways to Climate Governance: mobilising the Pre-COP process”, Green Zone, Uruçu Room, Brazilian Pavilion. Organised by the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB).
15:00-16:30: “Faith-based Partnerships Advancing the Paris Agreement in the United States with Global Solidarity”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4. Co-organised by Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers with Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and Bread for the World Institute.
15:00-16:30: “Institutionalizing and financing Agroecology for climate change adaptation in Africa – Agroecology as a holistic approach for resilience”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 5. Co-organised by Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement (JVE)
| THU 20 NOVEMBER |
13:30-14:30: “Climate and the Cerrado: Community-led Strategies vs. Carbon Markets” A12, Blue Zone, German Pavilion (livestreamed), co-organised by Misereor.
18:30—20:00: “Driving Inclusive and Equitable Climate Action for a Just Transition”, Blue Zone, Side Event Room 1. Co-organised by Franciscans International, The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC), Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) and World Council of Churches (WCC).
CIDSE CONTACTS
RESOURCES
CIDSE
- Belém Manifesto, a collective Call to Action, CIDSE Systemic Change Dialogues, November 2025 (EN – ES – FR – PT)
- Pilgrims of Hope for a Just and Peaceful World, joint Catholic statement by Caritas Internationalis, CIDSE and Pax Christi International, 7 September 2025 (EN – ES – FR)
- Climate Finance in the Jubilee Year: Why Debt Relief Is More Important Than Ever for Climate and Nature Justice, CIDSE policy brief, June 2025 (EN – ES – FR – PT)
- From Bonn to Belém: Where’s the Justice in Climate Action?, CIDSE press release on the Bonn UNFCCC intersessionals (SB62), 27 June 2025
- NDC engagement made simple, a handbook for policy and advocacy experts working on national climate plans, CIDSE, October 2024
Our members
- CAFOD: COP30: Take action on the climate crisis
- CCFD-Terre Solidaire: COP 30 : La dette des pays du Sud, l’angle mort de la transition écologique
- Development and Peace-Caritas Canada: COP30: Fighting for Global Ecological Justice!
- Entraide et Fraternité: L’Amazonie pour témoigner des défis de la COP30
- Fastenaktion: Newsticker zur COP30 (FR)
- Misereor : Misereor bei der COP 30
- SCIAF: Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Leadership in Loss and Damage Solutions, 2025 (EN–ES)
- Vastenactie: Zonder schuldenverlichting geen klimaatactie in het Zuiden
Our Allies
- A Faith-Based Appeal for Justice and Action: EU Climate Leadership at COP30, European Laudato Si’ Alliance (ELSIA) open letter to Ursula van Meyer, President of the European Commission, 10 October 2025
- CAN Europe COP30 Demands for the EU, October 2025
- Open letter to António Guterres, Annalena Baerbock and Simon Stiell on the occasion of the UN General Assembly and the UN SG Special High-level Event on Climate Action by the Catholic episcopal conferences and councils of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, September 2025 (ES – PT)
- A call for climate justice and the common home: ecological conversion, transformation and resistance to false solutions, message from the Catholic episcopal conferences and councils of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean on the occasion of COP30, July 2025 (EN – ES – PT)
- Jubilee 2025: The new global debt crisis and its solutions, CAFOD, SCIAF, Caritas Internationalis, 2024
- Transition minerals, old inequalities in Brazil: Mining, justice and the climate agenda at COP30, November 2025,Instituto Cordilheira and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (PT)
Cover photo: COP30 stand at the UNFCCC’s SB62 Meetings, Bonn, 2025.
Credit: CIDSE.