Rare at COP30

Putting people and nature at the heart of climate action and finance

From November 10-21, Belém, Brazil will host the 2025 United Nations Climate Conference (COP30)—an annual global gathering to discuss priority actions for tackling climate change and accelerating climate adaptation and resilience. COP30 marks the ten-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and, with diplomacy struggling to keep pace with rapid global change, climate negotiations are at a crucial turning point. As global policymakers travel to the heart of the Amazon, this COP represents a key opportunity to both center the role of tropical forests and coastal areas in climate action, as well as the role of local communities as leaders driving the fight against climate change.

Rare’s priorities for COP30 are:

Community-led solutions for adaptation and resilience. Elevating frontline voices and actions in climate adaptation planning and implementation.

Translating global to local. Backing up political and financial commitments with meaningful action, empowerment, and financial support to frontline communities.

Finance to the frontlines. Breaking down barriers to get financial capital to frontline communities.

Headed to Belém and want to get in touch? Email Emily Goodwin – egoodwin@rare.org

Events & Engagement

Some of the key events Rare is hosting or participating in. For more information about any of the events, contact Emily Goodwin – egoodwin@rare.org.

Date	Name	Location
Nov. 5	Leading from the Coast: Nature-Based Solutions for a Climate-Ready Future Featured at the Local Leaders Forum, organized by COP30 Presidency and Bloomberg Philanthropies	Rio de Janeiro
Nov. 11 13:15-14:45	The Mangrove Breakthrough: Mobilizing Global Leadership and Large-Scale Finance	Side Event Room 9, Blue Zone
Nov. 11, afternoon	COP30 Ministerial Meeting Roundtable on Cities, Nature and Climate	Blue Zone
Nov. 11	Mother of Mangroves full-day event at Voz de Oceans House	Voz de Oceans House
Nov 13, 7:30 – 10:30 PM	COP30 Dinner Dialogue — From Mangroves to Mountains: Tech-driven Community Power for Climate Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods. Co-hosted by Rare, Salesforce, and Accenture.	Contact for more information
Nov 14, 11:00 – 12:00	From international to local: next steps for subnational climate finance	Green Zone
Nov 15, 2:00 – 3:00 PM	Blue Economy & Ocean Finance	IDB Pavilion
Nov 15, 5:30 PM	Tide of Change: Women for the Ocean and Climate	Amazon Climate Hub
Nov 16	Rare Project Field Trip – Amazon Coast	Contact for more information
Nov 16, 6:30 – 8:30 PM	Screening of Ocean Film, with a keynote session before	Voz de Oceans House
Nov. 17 10:30-11:30	Transforming Blue Food Systems for Equity, Resilience, and Climate Action. More information here.	Food and Agriculture Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 10:30 – 11:30 AM	Mangroves, Migration and Climate Justice: Experiences from the Brazilian Amazon Coast	IOM Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM	Tides of Transformation: Advancing Equitable Coastal Climate Solutions	Axis 2 Thematic Room, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 12:30-1:30 PM	Global Mutirão for the Ocean: Accelerating the Ocean Breakthroughs	Axis 2 Thematic Room, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 1:00 – 2:00 PM	Ocean-Based Solutions: Bridging the Climate, Biodiversity, and Civil Society Agendas for Coastal Resilience	WCF Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 2:00 – 3:30 PM	Blue Food Futures: Youth and Multi-Stakeholders Action for Sustainability	Indonesia Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 2:30 – 4:00 PM	Shaping our blue future: integrative research to harness marine ecosystems for climate action around the world	Planetary Science Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov. 17, 3:20 – 4:10 PM	Coastal and Marine Territories and Seascapes: Living Solutions for the Climate	Peoples’ Circle Pavilion, Green Zone
Nov. 17, 3:30 – 4:45 PM	The Importance of Marine Protected Areas for the Ocean-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus	Portugal Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov 17, 19:00 – 23:00	From Brazil to the World: Advancing the Marine Conservation Breakthroughs at COP30	Voz de Oceans House
Nov. 18, 9:30 – 10:30 AM	Resilient Coastal Economies: Nature and Equitable Livelihoods	Resilience Hub, Blue Zone
Nov. 18, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	From Ambition to Implementation: Delivering Ocean Commitments	SE Room 2, Madeira, Blue Zone
Nov. 18, 2:30 – 3:20 PM	The importance of coastal management in tackling climate change: an example of participatory management in Augusto Corrêa, Pará	Pará Pavilion, Green Zone
Nov. 18, 2:30 – 3:20 PM	The Amazon’s response: Solutions for Sustainable Development, Bioeconomy, and Climate Resilience from the perspective of the territories and their populations	Pará Pavilion, PPA/Green Zone
Nov. 18, 4:00 – 5:30 PM	Mangroves, carbon, and climate justice: necessary adaptations	Casa do Laboratório da Cidade
Nov. 18, 4:30 – 5:30 PM	Scaling up marine nature conservation and climate solutions	German Climate Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov. 18, 19:00 – 22:00	Amazon Welcomes Mangrove Breakthrough Governors’ Dinner with Mothers of Mangroves	Contact for more information
Nov. 19, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM	The guardians of biodiversity, their maretórios, and the construction of climate justice	Green Zone
Nov. 20, 12:30 – 1:30 PM	Closed Door People of the Oceans Breakthrough Consultation (Rare & community leaders invited)	Room Axis 2, Blue Zone
Nov. 20, 3:00 – 4:00 PM	Bioeconomy on the Amazon Coast: From Sociobiodiversity to Climate Commitments	ICA (Instituto de Ciências da Arte – UFPA) na Praça da República -Belém
Nov. 20, 3:20 – 4:10 PM	Coastal and Marine Territories and Maritime Areas: Living Solutions for the Climate	Pavilion of Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities, Green Zone
Nov 20. 4:00 – 5:00 PM	Agroecology as a Tool for a Just Transition to Resilient, Low-Carbon Food Systems	Food Roots and Routes Pavilion, Blue Zone
Nov 21., 12:15 – 1:30 PM	Resilient Climate Adaptation in the Coastal Amazon	Consórcio Amazônia Legal – Hub Amazônia, Blue Zone

Climate Resilience & Adaptation

Communities on the front lines of climate change face rising sea levels, shifting migration patterns, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and other challenges that threaten lives and livelihoods. Rare envisions a world where people and communities living in climate vulnerable places can withstand the impacts of climate change, and thrive in the places they call home.

Rare’s approach to climate resilience

Rare in Brazil

Brazil’s Amazon Coast, home to rich blue carbon ecosystems, is central to the country’s ambitions for climate mitigation and adaptation, as well as achieving 30×30. Yet, realizing these national and global goals depends on the ability of local governments and traditional communities to plan, manage, and finance climate action where it matters most. Rare catalyzes solutions to advance locally led climate resilience. Click here to learn how.

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Stories & Insights

Explore stories and insights from the frontlines of climate change.

Protecting mangroves for a climate-resilient future

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Belém and Beyond: Financing frontline ocean and climate action

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The push for 30×30 ocean protection goal needs to be locally led

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Video

In some of the most climate-vulnerable communities on Earth, Rare is advancing climate resilience. Watch these videos to see what life is like on the frontlines of climate change, and how safeguarding nature and empowering local people promises a more resilient future.

The Amazon's Mangroves

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Guardians of the Mangrove

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Juma: A New Generation Leading the Fight for the Ocean

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Coastal 500 Delegation

Mayor Hamilton Brito

Curuçá, Brazil

Mayor Francisco Queiroz de Oliveira

Augusto Corrêa, Brazil

Mayor Mário Júnior

Bragança, Brazil

Rare Delegation

Rare Staff

Dr. Caleb McClennen, President
Monique Barreto Galvao, Vice President, Brazil
Jessica Wandscheer, Manager, Development & Engagement, Brazil
Mariana Trindade, Senior Associate, Policy & Governance, Brazil
Monica Varela, Vice President, Colombia
Lisa Schinder Murray, Director, Natural Climate Solutions & Blue Innovative Finance
Carlos Arango, Director, Economic Resilience
Emily Goodwin, Director, Global Policy

Resources

“The conservation of nature is best guaranteed when the power to manage it is in the hands of those living closest to it.” – Rocky Sanchez Tirona

Community-led solutions are the key ingredient to climate resilience. Dive into this report authored by WWF’s Coastal Communities Initiative with contributions from Rare for inspiring insights into coastal conservation from the frontlines.

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Beyond Carbon Credits: Demystifying non-carbon market approaches for blue carbon ecosystems

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25 people-centered solutions for conservation and climate

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Financial Inclusion to Support Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Small-Scale Fishers in the Philippines

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