This year, during COP30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil, a new presence will make itself felt.
The Global South House is a physical venue, located in the heart of COP30, to center conversations about shifting power. Co-created by Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur and Rede Comuá, with the partnership of the Amazon Community Funds Network and the #ShiftThePower movement, it’s meant to make a statement: that the future of just and effective financing – climate and otherwise – begins outside the Global North.
I've been excited to watch the vision for this space take shape, from a concept to a beating heart in the center of Belém – led by Juliana Tinoco, Executive Coordinator of Alianza and the mind behind the house. Check out this video to get a sense of what they're going for.
The idea is not to build something new from scratch, but to reveal and strengthen what already exists: diverse, grounded mechanisms that channel trust and resources toward grassroots climate actors. Tinoco told me that she hopes COP30 can serve as a platform to amplify Global Majority leadership: "The most effective and innovative responses to the climate crisis are already being built within the territories of the Global South.”
If you're in Brazil this week, or following along online, you can track the agenda of the Global South House here – events will be held in-person at Canto Coworking in Bélem, and also livestreamed here in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
The Alianza team also shared a larger curated list of events at COP30 hosted by their members, at the house and beyond. You can find that list below.
November 9
South-South Solidarity for Adaptation with Climate Justice
Organized by: Instituto Democracia e Sustentabilidade (IDS), Instituto de Referência Negra Peregum, and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), in partnership with Ação da Cidadania, Oxfam Brasil, and Fundo ELAS.
Supporting partner institutions: Ação da Cidadania, ELAS+ Doar para Transformar, OXFAM Brasil, The Global South House.
Location: Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) - Prédio CAPACIT/Auditório
Time: 8 a.m
🔗 Register
November 10
Financing in the Global South: Driving Resources in the Food Systems Agenda
Organized by: Rede Comuá
Featuring: Fundo Brasil, Fondo Tierra Viva, Instituto Baixada, Instituto Ibirapitanga
Location: Blue Zone, Food Pavilion
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Meeting of Organizations of the Feminist School for Climate Action (EFAC)
Organized by: Fundación Plurales
Location: People’s COP – Room 4 (1st Floor)
🔗COP do Povo
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Reception: Building Connections and Sharing Stories
Organized by: Global Witness and Casa Socio-Environmental Fund
Location: People’s COP – Outdoor Covered Area (Ground Floor), Travessa Piedade 426, Bairro Reduto
🔗COP do Povo
Time: 6:15 p.m.
November 11
Sociobiodiversity in Motion: Connecting Knowledge and Nature (Launch of the Teia da Sociobiodiversidade II Call)
Organized by: Caixa Econômica Federal (FSA CAIXA)
Featuring: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund
Location: Brazil Pavilion – Green Zone (Jandaíra Room) – Parque da Cidade
Time: 10:00 a.m.
From Pledges to Locally-Led Climate Action: Gender-Just Indigenous Solutions to End Deforestation
Organized by: Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA), Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA)
Featuring: NTFP-EP/Pastor Rice Small Grants Fund, Fondo Tierra Viva, Fondo Centroamericano de Mujeres (FCAM), Korea Green Foundation (KGF)
Location: Room 7, Blue Zone
🔗 Eventbrite
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Combating Deforestation and Promoting Territorial Justice – Cerrado em Pé: How Agribusiness Threatens Communities and How to Use Legal Instruments to Resist
Featuring: Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN), CCCA, Earthsight, DUH, CNPCT, Quilombo Cedro, Rede Cerrado
Location: People’s COP
Time: 2:45 p.m.
Latin American Women Network: Environmentalists, Feminists, Black and Indigenous Women United for Care and Well-being
Organized by: Fundación Socioambiental Semilla
Featuring: Central de Mujeres Indígenas Roboré, CICHAR, CAMTRA, CAMP, Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Ambientalistas
Location: Casa das ONGs
Time: 4:00 p.m.
November 12
Funding from the Ground Up: Lessons from Global South-led Funds for Socio-environmental Justice
Organized by: Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
Featuring: Environmental Justice Fund, Samdhana Institute, Youth Climate Justice Fund, Fondo Plurales
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Unlocking Pathways: Collaborative Arrangements to Ground Climate Finance at Scale in the Territories
Organized by: ISPN, Casa Socio-Environmental Fund
Featuring: Fondo Emerger, Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur, IDB, Caixa (FSA Caixa)
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 4:30 p.m.
🔗Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Funding for Communities
Organized by: Fundación Socioambiental Semilla
Location: People’s COP – Room 4 (1st Floor)
Time: 4:30 p.m.
🔗COP do Povo
November 13
Learning and Co-Creating: Resourcing Southern Voices and Communities
Organized by: Samdhana Institute
Featuring: Pastor Rice Small Grants Fund/NTFP-EP Asia, IPAS, IFIP, Fundo Indígena Rutî – CIR
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 10:00 a.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Equitable Pathways for Adaptation Finance
Organized by: India Climate Collaborative, Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation
Featuring: Samdhana Institute, IFPRI, BAIF, Manila Housing Trust, EarthON Foundation
Location: Blue Zone – RCF Pavilion
Time: 3:00 p.m.
🔗 RCF Agenda
Adaptation in the Pan-Amazon: Community Responses to Climate Emergencies Supported by Agile Funding
Organized by: Fundación Ñeque, Fundación Semilla, Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Fundación Avina
Featuring: Central de Mujeres Indígenas Chiquitanas de Bolivia, Brigada Guardiões Kumaruara
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 4:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
November 14
Collaborative and Innovative Arrangements to Ground Climate Finance in the Territories
Organized by: Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos
Featuring: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Fundo Tindzila
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 10:00 a.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Launch of the Environmental Defenders Fund
Featuring: Fondo Emerger
Location: Colombia Pavilion | Pabellón Colombia
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Financing Local Solutions: Nature-Based Solutions for Adaptation and Socio-environmental Justice
Organized by: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Fundación Semilla, Rede Comuá
Featuring: CONAQ, Fundo de Desenvolvimento Comunitário – Tabôa
Location: Green Zone – Centro de Economia Criativa
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Financing Communities Through Solutions and Experiences from the Savannas and the Pantanal with Global Impact
Organized by: Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN), Fundación Semilla
Featuring: Fundo Tindzila, Fondo Emerger, Central de Mujeres Indígenas Chiquitanas de Bolivia, CAV, Bosque Pedagógico Los Piyos
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 4:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
November 17
What Happens When Resources Reach the Territories? A Conversation on Territory-based Philanthropy Walking Hand in Hand with Local Climate Solutions
Organized by: Tabôa
Featuring: Red Comunidades Rurales, #ShiftThePower, Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN), FUNBEA, Instituto Baixada Maranhense, Instituto Itaúsa, FUNBIO
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 10:00 a.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Climate Justice and Defenders: Funding for the Protection of Life and Territories
Organized by: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos
Featuring: Fondo Emerger, Porticus, CPT Pará, FAU-LAC
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 2:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Financing Local Solutions: Community-Led Adaptation
Organized by: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Fundo ELAS+
Featuring: Bem Te Vi Diversidade, Fundo Puxirum, Instituto Zé Cláudio e Maria, Fundo Quilombola Mizizi Dudu
Location: People’s COP
Time: 2:45 p.m.
🔗 COP do Povo
Afro-descendant Youth and Climate Justice: Ancestral Technologies and Intersectoral Strategies from Quilombos, Terreiros, and Urban Peripheries
Organized by: Associação Cultural, Social da Etnia Quilombola Perpetuar – ACSEQP
Featuring: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund
Location: Pavilhão do Brasil – Green Zone, Auditório Uruçu – Parque da Cidade.
🕐 Time: 3:00 p.m.
Funding Food Systems and Resilience in the Global South
Organized by: Samdhana Institute
Featuring: Adaptation Research Alliance
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 4:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Horizons of the Global South: New Arrangements for the Direct Financing of Local Climate Solutions
Organized by: Rede Comuá
Featuring: Red Comunidades Rurales, Fundo Tindzila, Fundo Agbara, CESE
Location: Green Zone – Prédio da Economia Criativa
Time: 4:30 p.m.
November 18
Popular Education and Climate Finance: Methodologies and Technologies for Socio-environmental and Climate Justice
Organized by: FUNBEA, Fundación Ñeque, Red Comunidades Rurales
Featuring: Pastor Rice Small Grants Fund/NTFP-EP Asia
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 10:00 a.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Philanthropy in Action: Accelerating Implementation and Impact
Organized by: WINGS
Featuring: Environmental Justice Fund, Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
Location: Blue Zone
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Building a Just Ecological Transition: Funding Agroecology Initiatives Led by Workers and Local Communities
Organized by: Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos, Labora – Fundo de Apoio ao Trabalho Digno
Featuring: Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN), Samdhana Institute, Fondo Tierra Viva
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 2:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Communication, Territory, and Climate Justice: Quilombola and Community Voices in Motion
Organized by: Malungu; Instituto Perpetuar; CONAQ
Featuring: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund
Location: Casa das ONGs
🕐 Time: 2:00 p.m.
Feminist Funding for Climate, Economic Justice and Resilience: Successful Approaches from the Ground
Organized by: Fondo Tierra Viva, GAGGA Alliance, Fundo Agbara, Instituto Baixada Maranhense
Featuring: MCBFCMA (Philippines), Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA)
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 4:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
November 19
Community and Indigenous-Led Climate Action: New Measures from the Global South
Organized by: Cultural Survival, IPAM Amazônia
Featuring: NTFP-EP Asia/Pastor Rice Small Grants Fund, Elleyada NGO, Youth for Climate
Location: Blue Zone – Resilience Hub
Time: 9:30 a.m.
🔗 Resilience Hub Agenda
What’s Possible Now?
Organized by: #ShiftThePower
Featuring: Red Comunidades Rurales
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 10:00 a.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Global South Youth: Decolonizing Climate Finance from the Ground Up
Organized by: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Youth Climate Justice Fund, Global Fund for Children
Featuring: FUNBEA
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 10:00 a.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Forest Financing: Unlocking Mechanisms for Sustainable Development
Organized by: Climate and Policy Initiative
Featuring: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund
Location: RCF Pavilion – Blue Zone
Time: 11:45 a.m.
🔗 RCF Agenda
Reconfiguring Power: Networks Driving Equitable Financing for the Global South
Organized by: Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur, Rede Comuá
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 4:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
Sociobioeconomy in Motion: Strengthening Forest and Cerrado Economies with Traditional Peoples and Communities
Organized by: ISPN
Featuring: Rede Cerrado, Conselho Nacional de Povos e Comunidades Tradicionais (CNPCT), Articulação Nacional das Mulheres Indígenas Guerreiras da Ancestralidade (ANMIGA), Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Aliança pela Sociobioeconomia da Amazônia, Catrapovos Brasil (MPF)
Location: AgriZone Embrapa
🕐 Time: 4:40 p.m.
Territories that Sustain the Climate: Local Funds Scaling Nature-Based and Adaptation Solutions in the World’s Largest Forests
Organized by: Casa Socio-Environmental Fund, Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur Featuring: Fondo Emerger, Samdhana Institute, GTA, Congo Basin Climate Justice Fund (launch), Global Greengrants Fund
Location: Blue Zone – Side Event Room 3
Time: 4:45 p.m.
Two Biomes, One Climate: The Amazon–Cerrado Connection
Organized by: ISPN, CCCA, DUH, Earthsight
Location: Amazon Climate Hub
Time: 5:30 p.m.
🔗 Amazon Climate Hub
November 20
Trust-Based Philanthropy for Community-Led Socio-Environmental Solutions: Perspectives and Lessons from the Global South
Organized by: Global Giving
Featuring: Fondo Tierra Viva
Location: The Global South House – CANTO Coworking
Time: 2:00 p.m.
🔗 Eventbrite
Live streaming on the YouTube channel
