The Brazil Human Rights Fund (Fundo Brasil) is heading to Belém (PA) for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). Through five events at the Global South House, we will foster urgent and inspiring conversations about how we can collectively advance the goal of ensuring a habitable – and more just – planet for everyone.
With nearly 20 years of experience supporting grassroots groups, social movements, and NGOs, Brazil Fund will present pioneering initiatives to strengthen the leadership and climate solutions of workers, Indigenous peoples, and local communities. We will also address the challenges of protecting the lives of those who defend nature and social justice – in our country, these defenders face serious risks.
At this conference, which aims to be known as the “adaptation implementation COP”, our meetings will spotlight proposals already being tested and driving positive change in territories across Brazil.
Register through the link for each activity. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
November 13, Thursday
Three Years of Labora – Fund for Decent Work: Cocktail Reception and Meeting with Grassroots Groups and Social Movements | 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
To mark its third anniversary, Labora – Fund for Decent Work will host a celebration and an open conversation about decent work and a just transition.
The event will be a moment for celebration, networking, and the premiere of the documentary We got this: reports of the fight for decent work (Daqui pra frente é nós: histórias da luta por trabalho digno), followed by an open conversation with representatives from philanthropy and social movements. Members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) and the Workers’ Movement for Rights (MTD), along with spokespeople from the Laudes Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations.
Labora is the only philanthropic initiative in Brazil focused on supporting the fight for decent work, social protection, and a just transition. During this period, it has allocated R$ 24.8 million to 144 initiatives.
November 14, Friday
Panel: “Collaborative and Innovative Arrangements for Grounding Climate Finance in Territories” | 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.br/e/collaborative-and-innovative-arrangements-tickets-1790542965209?aff=oddtdtcreator
Local and community-based mechanisms in the Global South have been refining highly efficient support and collaboration strategies to mobilize and decentralize resources for addressing the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. In this context, the Raízes – Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Fund for Climate Justice, an initiative of Brazil Fund, proposes an integrated approach. It combines financial grants for structural actions, technical support, responses to urgent demands for protecting lives and territories, and support for movement building.
This experience, which Raízes applies across all Brazilian biomes, will be presented and debated on a panel that will also feature socio-environmental, community, and corporate funds with which Raízes collaborates. Concrete examples of arrangements for channeling resources to territories will be presented, such as the Alliance Between Funds, the Comuá Network’s Territorial Alliance, and the Alianza Fondos del Sur, as well as the partnership with the Itaúsa Institute and initiatives like the Pooled Fund.
The panel aims to spur the creation of new cooperation models, highlighting possible pathways to expand financing focused on people, climate, and nature.
November 17, Monday
Panel: “Climate Justice and Defenders: Funding for the Protection of Life and Territories” | 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.br/e/climate-justice-and-defenders-tickets-1790583717099?aff=oddtdtcreator
Brazil and other Global South countries face an alarming reality: they record the highest rates of assassinations of human rights and environmental defenders, who are killed because of their work.
In this panel, we will present Brazil Fund’s experience in responding to this central challenge to advancing socio-environmental rights and climate justice in the country. This methodology combines rapid responses to funding requests, grants for structural proposals to create a culture of comprehensive security, activation of care networks, and support for capacity building. It is also articulated in partnership with organizations like the Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, the panel’s host.
Other guests, including the Fundo Peru and the Urgent Action Fund for Latin America (FAU-AL), will provide contextual analysis and situational assessments of protection strategies in Pan-Amazonian and South American countries.
November 18, Tuesday
Panel: “Building a Just Ecological Transition: Funding Agroecology Initiatives Led by Workers and Local Communities” | 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.br/e/building-a-just-ecological-transition-tickets-1790656986249?aff=oddtdtcreator
The panel seeks to highlight how community-led and popular land use – anchored in agroecology and agroforestry practices – can protect biomes, ensure food sovereignty, and generate dignified livelihoods. It will also present examples of how these solutions can be strengthened through an ecosystem of philanthropic organizations rooted in national contexts and deeply connected to strategic actors on the ground, especially at the community level.
We will bring together philanthropic actors from the Global South who are at the forefront of this movement, guided by principles of trust, autonomy, and the intersectionality of climate change and inequalities. These organizations already have a ready and accessible infrastructure to scale up resources for agroecology efforts led by workers and local communities, with concrete examples of successful partnerships and significant impact.
Moderated by Ana Valéria Araújo, Executive Director of the Brazil Human Rights Fund, we invite the following to the debate: Adela Guerrero – GPAE (Grupo de Promoción de la Agricultura Ecológica)/Fondo Tierra Viva, Valmir Macedo – Centro de Agricultura Alternativa Vicente Nica (CAV), Joan Jamisolamin – Samdhana Institute (Southeast Asia), People’s Summit (Cúpula dos Povos), Aline Souza Nascimento – Dema Fund, and Terena Peres de Castro – ISPN.
November 18, Tuesday
Two Years of Raízes – Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Fund for Climate Justice – Cocktail Reception and Cultural Night | 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Two years ago, Raízes – Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Fund for Climate Justice was created by the Brazil Fund to combine tested and successful methodologies developed over nearly two decades of experience. In doing so, it strengthens a solid structure for enhancing the leadership of these peoples and communities on the climate agenda.
This event will be another moment proposed by the Brazil Fund for celebration, dialogue, and networking. It will feature Marina Marçal, representative of the Weaverley Fund, and the premiere of a short film produced from within the territories, featuring members of the peoples and communities who have been building Raízes together with the Brazil Fund.
And what is The Global South House?
The Global South House is a platform for political articulation, mobilization, knowledge production, and collaboration among philanthropic actors from the Global South. Its purpose is to influence resource flows and power dynamics for the benefit of socio-environmental justice, advocating for local solutions to be at the center of global conversations on climate and nature financing.
The Global South House is an initiative of the Rede Comuá, of which the Brazil Human Rights Fund is a member, and the Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur. Together, they bring together dozens of independent, local organizations dedicated to socio-environmental justice philanthropy, located in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
In Belém, the Rede de Fundos Comunitários da Amazônia Brasileira (Community Funds of the Brazilian Amazon Network) and the international #ShiftthePower movement are co-promoting the project.
