From football rivalry to unity: Playing for Earth
More than half the world’s population are football fans — a powerful cultural force. Remo vs. Paysandu represents one of Brazil’s fiercest football rivalries, but some goals transcend the game. Join representatives and players from both teams, along with the President of the Pará Football Federation, to explore how football’s cultural power can unite rivals […]
Hot Work: Building worker and business resilience in a warming world
Extreme heat and poor air quality are impacting workers across the world, from fields to factories to boardrooms. Join stakeholders from the private sector, philanthropy and international organizations to explore how businesses can respond to rising temperatures due to climate change and implement solutions that balance productivity, well-being and equity.
Intergenerational town hall: The Global South lights the way to the future
This session unites leaders across generations to chart new constellations of leadership. Inspired by the Southern Cross that guides navigators south, we explore how the Global South serves as today’s compass — asking what legacy we want to leave for future generations in 2100.
The Living Amazon. Experience the sociobioeconomy.
Join Natura and leading pioneers for an evening of story, flavor and insight — exploring how businesses can help build an Amazon economy that values nature and empowers communities. The dinner spotlights Natura’s Living Amazon Mechanism, a blended finance model growing the socio-bioeconomy, and invites others to scale this vision together.
Bridging continents: Scaling minigrid solutions from Africa to the Americas
CrossBoundary and AMDA will convene minigrid developers from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) for peer-to-peer learning. This exchange will share best practices to accelerate scale and attract private sector investment, drawing on SSA experience and LAC innovations like demand-driving models and mesh grids for isolated communities.
Debatable: Green is the new brown
Renewable energy promises economic growth and freedom from fossil fuels, but demands unprecedented mining of rare minerals. Can we harness clean energy while respecting human rights and protecting ecosystems? Or will decarbonization repeat extraction patterns under a green guise?
Sustainability Markets: The role of business in building carbon removal with integrity at scale
Microsoft CSO, Melanie Nakagawa, will lead a conversation with expert guests about the challenges, opportunities and progress in building carbon removal at scale. The discussion will include the role of corporates’ as investors, innovators and purchasers of solutions, and the technological breakthroughs that will help create markets that deliver for communities and the planet.
Don’t drop the ball: Freestyle football clinic
Ricardinho Freestyle, a native son of Belem, is the 2x World Champion of Freestyle Football, and holder of 2 Guinness World Records. Join him and the Earth FC team for a football clinic. Take a break, try something new, and learn how football can help to tackle climate change and protect nature. To do so, […]
Protect What You Love: a mother-led workshop on how care can power change
Join the COP30 Mothers’ delegation and Our Kids’ Climate to explore how love and care can spark deep, transformative action on the climate crisis. Step out of the fray and reconnect with what moves you most to act. We will speak from the heart, and share stories about the places, people, and children we love, […]
An interview with former US Vice President Al Gore
Join founder of the Climate Reality Project and one of the world’s best known climate leaders Al Gore, for a wide-ranging conversation with Bloomberg new reporter and author of Climate Capitalism, Akshat Rathi.