Climate Bridges at COP30

What bridges do you think are most important to build for real climate progress?

From 6–21 November 2025, the 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30) took place in Belém, Brazil, a historic gathering marking a decade since the Paris Agreement. World leaders, scientists, civil society, and communities came together to accelerate climate action and deepen collaboration across regions, generations, and disciplines.

Climate Bridges was there — both on site in Belém and online — connecting what happened inside the summit with the creativity and collaboration unfolding beyond. Our focus: turning disconnection into collaboration, and showing how communities are already leading the transition toward a just and regenerative future.

As COP30 has now concluded, the scale and complexity of the work necessary is only starting to unfold. With many key decisions and agreements still pending. Read our initial take on the key outcomes from COP and hear from our members what they think should come next.

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Our Role at COP30

Throughout the conference, we amplified voices from the field — women and youth leaders, food systems innovators, finance experts, and mindfulness practitioners — and shared reflections on how connection can drive systemic change.

We explored how

  • Investing in women entrepreneurs builds climate resilience and inclusive growth

  • Transforming food systems is essential for both people and planet

  • Redirecting finance flows can unlock innovation and equity

  • Protecting tropical forests sustains life on Earth and supports Indigenous leadership

  • Inner transformation supports the outer transition toward sustainability

Explore our content and learn how we bridge policy and practice, finance and community, inner and outer change — and spotlight how Brazil’s Tropical Forests Forever Facility could reshape global conservation finance.

Stay Connected

Follow us on LinkedIn and visit our website for further COP30 insights, highlights, and more opportunities to engage.

Members received real-time updates directly from Belém through our WhatsApp groups — including behind the scenes experiences from our delegation. Learn more about joining here. 

The Tropical Forests Forever Fund is set to launch at COP30: A Brazil-led proposal to reward forest conservation and channel 20% of funds to Indigenous peoples — a landmark step for equity and planetary resilience.

  • COP30 Open Forum with Members (online) on the policy priorities and influencing strategy for the opening of COP30. Click here to read the open letter. To sign the letter, click here.

  • Mindfulness practices can help cultivate both awareness and inner resilience—key capacities for the protection of our planet. That’s why, on the eve of COP30, Climate Bridges,in partnership with the Conscious Food Systems Alliance (CoFSA), Listening to the Earth, the Inner Green Deal, the Inner Development Goals Foundation and Climate Youth Resilience, hosted the inaugural Global Climate Meditation on 9 November 2025 at 5:00 pm CET, with an exclusive intervention by Satish Kumar, renowned Indian-British activist, author, and speaker known for his lifelong commitment to peace, ecology, and social justice.
    Watch the replay on our YouTube channel.

  • This dialogue convenes the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (World Bank), World Food Programme, Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator, and UNIDO’s Global Cleantech Innovation Programme to accelerate climate innovation and scale up finance for women entrepreneurs unlocking triple wins for gender, jobs, and climate. It is organised by the WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS FINANCE INITIATIVE (We-Fi, World Bank), Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA, WFP), the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (UNIDO) and Climate Bridges.
    Link to the event description

  • Earlier this year, social and environmental movements from around the world launched a call to action for a Global Day of Action on 15 November 2025, coinciding with the United Nations COP30 climate negotiations. As part of the Peoples’ Summit, thousands are expected to take to the streets of Belém, Brazil, demanding climate justice and system change.

    In Switzerland, Alliance Climatique is organising events in Geneva and Zurich.

  • Follow us on LinkedIn for more details.

  • This session aims to present the role of women as key drivers of climate resilience, highlight how multilateral development banks (MDBs) can accelerate women entrepreneurs’ contributions to climate action, and showcase potential ecosystem level solutions that foster inclusive and sustainable growth.

    Elise Buckle will facilitate the session and Khulan Berger will participate in the panel discussion. Click here for a full session overview.

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  • Exclusive event for Climate Bridges members with the Ambassador of Costa Rica and a senior negotiator from Christiana Figueres’ team.

    If you’re interested in joining, sign up as a member to receive the invitation.

    More information to follow

Key Dates

Join the Movement

Visit the official COP30 Climate Action page for a full list of official events.

Open letter to the COP30 Presidency and High Level Climate Champions

Ahead of COP30, we formulated an open letter addressed to the COP30 Presidency, CEO, and High-Level Climate Champions, which we handed over to them in person during the Summit.

The Climate Bridges community commends the global efforts made since COP29 and calls for renewed leadership and tangible outcomes on three interconnected pillars, which together can build the bridges needed for systemic change:

  1. Finance: Investing in Impact

  2. Food and Forests: Transforming Agrifood Systems for People and Planet

  3. Women and Youth Empowerment: Embedding Inclusion in Climate Leadership

We invite you to read the letter and join our call, by signing the letter today.

The future won’t be built by one sector, one generation, or one worldview — it will be built through bridges.

Join us in transforming disconnection into collaboration at #BridgingCOP30.

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Relive what happened during COP30

Articles

COP30: accelerating climate finance for women entrepreneurs
OpEd by Elise Buckle

Outcomes from COP30: Where Bridge-Building Delivered Progress—and Where It Must Accelerate

Call to Unite for Collective Impact: Building Bridges for People, Planet, Prosperity at COP30
An Open Letter from Climate Bridges

Recording of the Global Climate Meditation for COP30 from Sunday, 9 November 2025

Videos

COP30 - Day 1: A message from Elise Buckle, Founder and CEO of Climate Bridges

COP30 voices: Yamide Dagnet, the Natural Resources Defense Council

Meet our COP30 delegation

Elise Buckle and Khulan Berger will be our official representatives on site in Belém. In addition, we will be hosting some Climate Bridges members as part of our delegation.

Connect with them via LinkedIn to stay informed!