Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion programme at COP30

⭐ [EARLY BIRD EXCLUSIVE until Nov. 21] Join our Community, with the best of what we offer! Additionally, we will curate your personalized list of must-attend COP events

🧭 Don’t miss the best of COP30 with illuminem’s Insiders' Guide
🏠 Read also the detailed guide to COP's most visited pavilions: Africa 🦁 • ASEAN 🗺️ • Australia 🇦🇺 • Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 • Buildings 🏢 • Business 💼 • Canada 🇨🇦 • Carbon 🪴 • Climate Change 🌡️ • Cryosphere 🧊 • Denmark 🇩🇰 • Energy ⚡ • Finland 🇫🇮 • Food 🍽️ • Forest 🌳 • France 🇫🇷 • Germany 🇩🇪 • Health 🏥 • Italy 🇮🇹 • Japan 🇯🇵 • Malaysia 🇲🇾 • Multilateral Dev. Banks 💰 • Norway 🇳🇴 • Ocean 🌊 • OECD 📊 • Peru 🇵🇪 • Planetary Embassy 🌍 • Regional Climate Foundations 🌱 • Science 🔬 • Singapore 🇸🇬 • Spain 🇪🇸 • Sweden 🇸🇪 • TED 🗣️ • UK 🇬🇧 • WWF 🐼 • Water 💧 • WECAN 🚺
🙋‍♀️ Contact us for VIP support or to promote your event

As one of the world’s most read platforms on sustainability, illuminem is proud to spotlight the key events shaping environmental sustainability and social responsibility, with a special focus on all the happenings at COP30. Drawing on insights from our network of 1,500+ Thought Leaders, we’re excited to present our insiders’ guides to the unmissable events in COP30 and its pavilions, the go-to resource for delegates at the defining climate summit of the year.

For the first time, we’re unveiling the full schedule of events at the Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion. True to our style, ⭐ spotlights our recommended events.

Website: https://regionalclimatefoundations.org/2025/10/03/regional-climate-foundations-pavilion-unveils-approved-events-for-cop30-in-belem/
Location: Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion, Blue Zone Belém, Brazil
Dates: Monday, November 10 – Friday, November 21, 2025

Tuesday, November 11
• 10:00–11:00 | Powershoring in Brazil’s Northeast: how to accelerate sustainable investments and low-carbon industrial chains
• 11:15–12:15 | Advances in the implementation of climate policy
• 12:30–13:30 | Critical minerals governance for energy justice and economic sovereignty
• 13:45–14:45 | Fostering cooperation in industrial decarbonisation and sustainable supply chains
• 15:00–16:00 | Tracking climate ambition in the Global South: launch of a new observatory
• 16:15–17:15 | Turning collaboration into local action for just resilience and nature
• 17:30–19:00 | Bem-vindos à COP30 – welcome event
• 17:30–19:00 | Legados vivos: mulheres pela ação climática

Wednesday, November 12
• 10:00–11:00 | Strengthening parliamentary action in the international climate agenda
• 11:15–12:15 | Reimagining climate governance for implementation and justice
• 12:30–13:30 | Country platforms: mobilizing climate finance for emerging economies
• 13:45–14:45 | Green trade and industrial decarbonisation: regional and international cooperation
• 15:00–16:00 | Indigenous journalism and the climate crisis
• 16:15–17:15 | Territories in transition: just transition in coal-dependent regions
• 17:30–19:00 | Bridging the adaptation finance gap: pathways for scaled action in the Global South

Thursday, November 13
• 10:00–11:00 | Dialogues and perspectives: adaptation plans as capacity building in Latin America
• 11:15–12:15 | International tax cooperation: unlocking finance for 1.5°C
• 12:30–13:30 | Governing the net-zero transition: trilateral dialogue with China, India and Brazil
• 13:45–14:45 | Now it’s time to implementation: advancing the global energy storage and grid pledge
• 15:00–16:00 | Equitable pathways for adaptation finance
• 16:15–17:15 | From fossil to future: pathways for a just transition for workers
• 17:30–19:00 | Cultura e clima: percepções e práticas

Friday, November 14, 2025
• 10:00–11:00 | Investment treaties as a barrier to achieving climate objectives
• 11:15–12:15 | Community power for global impact: scaling regional power transformations
• 12:30–13:30 | The Global South’s competitive potential in renewable energy and climate resilience
• 13:45–14:45 | Should carbon credits finance the early retirement of coal plants?
• 15:00–16:00 | Turning the roadmap into action for prosperity and climate security
• 16:15–17:15 | Redirecting global savings toward climate investments in developing countries
• 17:30–19:00 | Ensuring just energy transitions: indicators for successful, fair and inclusive transitions

Saturday, November 15
• 10:00–11:00 | Financing for the Global South: preparing for NDC3.0 and building partnerships
• 11:15–12:15 | Collaboration for economic transformation in the just energy transition
• 12:30–13:30 | Visualising ambition: from commitments to climate action
• 13:45–14:45 | Advancing green trade and decarbonised global value chains
• 15:00–16:00 | India’s decarbonisation pathway: balancing growth and net-zero
• 16:15–17:15 | Renewable energy targets for a just transition: perspectives from Latin America
• 17:30–19:00 | Geopolitics of fossil fuel transition: the role of international cooperation

Monday, November 17
• 10:00–11:00 | Presentation of two books: air quality in Mexico and “Energy 2050”
• 10:00–11:00 | Climate change and air pollution
• 11:15–12:15 | Delivering climate action from the bottom-up: lessons from subnational governments
• 12:30–13:30 | Building the Bai: forging a Pacific COP31 partnership
• 13:45–14:45 | Accelerating the green transition in the Global South
• 16:15–17:15 | Argentina presente
• 17:30–18:30 | Climate councils: aligning global climate architecture with national plans

Tuesday, November 18
• 10:00–11:00 | Transparency and implementation: lessons for the next decade
• 11:15–12:15 | Building green investment pathways for Global South regions
• 12:30–13:30 | Our faith moves mountains: engaging faith communities in climate justice
• 13:45–14:45 | Strengthening the climate regime: a citizens’ track for COP30 legacy
• 15:00–16:00 | From innovation to implementation: science, technologies and finance
• 17:30–18:30 | Science and culture in action: pathways to implementing urban adaptation

Wednesday, November 19
• 10:00–11:00 | Bridging global targets and local action in the private sector
• 11:15–12:15 | Forest financing: unlocking mechanisms for sustainable development
• 12:30–13:30 | From factory to fashion: industrial decarbonisation in the RMG sector
• 13:45–14:45 | From GDP to GEP: mainstreaming natural capital in policy and business
• 15:00–16:00 | Food, climate and territory: building resilient food systems
• 16:15–17:15 | Sunrise on distributed renewables and sunset on coal plants
• 17:30–18:30 | Cooperation to boost ambition: dialogues for climate action in the Global South

Thursday, November 20
• 11:15–12:15 | Landing the GGA on territories: from global goals to local realities
• 12:30–13:30 | Mexico’s NDC update and advances in national adaptation policy
• 13:45–14:45 | Unlocking nature through technology: advancing nature-based solutions
• 16:15–17:15 | Strengthening regional cooperation to dismantle environmental crime in the Amazon

Friday, November 21
• 11:15–12:15 | Inefficient subsidies for fossil fuels: challenges and opportunities
• 12:30–13:30 | Scaling distributed renewable energy in the Global South