The Comuá Network and its member organizations will be present at the COP29 Climate Summit in Azerbaijan, highlighting the theme of financing for locally-led climate solutions – created by, for, and with communities.
We will host roundtables in the Blue Zone, where the central agenda events and official negotiations take place, and we will also participate in panels in partnership with other organizations.
Members of the executive team of the Comuá Network, Fundo Casa Socioambiental, Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos, Elas+ Doar para Transformar, Casa Fluminense, FunBEA, and Instituto Clima e Sociedade will be participating in the program. Alongside us will be partners such as Alianza Fondos del Sur, Grupo de Trabalho Amazônico (GTA), Fundo Quilombola Mizzi Zudu, Itaúsa, Youth Climate Justice Fund, Tierra Viva Fund, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities, CLUA, GAGGA, Regional Climate Foundations, Ford Foundation, GIFE, WINGS, Fundación Avina, India Climate Collaborative, Solidarity Center, Itaúsa, Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG)/Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT).
We invite you, if you will be at COP 29 in Baku, to join us for the activities and discussions and advocate for resources to reach those on the front lines of the fight against climate change in the territories of the Global South!
🗓️ November 14
🕦 11h30am [GMT +4]
📍 ILO Pavillion | Blue Zone
Heat Stress: Protecting Workers and Increasing Resilience
Rising temperatures are already impacting workers around the world. Heat has always been a workplace risk, but climate change is exacerbating the threat to worker safety, health, and well-being worldwide.
What initiatives are currently underway to protect the life and health of workers? What is needed to protect the more than 2.4 billion workers exposed to heat stress worldwide?
Solidarity Center ● National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (CONTAG)/Unified Workers’ Central (CUT) ● European Commission ● United States Department of Labor ● Brazil Human Rights Fund
🗓️ November 15
🕦 10am [GMT +4]
📍 Side event 9 | Blue Zone
Opportunities and challenges in institutional arrangements for direct financing of local and traditional communities in socio-biodiversity business and nature-based solutions
Brazil has a growing philanthropic sector that encompasses foundations, local funds, activist funds, socio-environmental funds, territorial funds, and corporate and family philanthropy. This diverse ecosystem is critical for addressing the escalating climate and environmental crisis.
By forming more effective alliances, these institutions can channel resources directly to local communities, which are not only the most affected by environmental impacts but also key agents of nature-based solutions, fostering resilience and sustainability for local populations.
🕦 1h50pm [GMT +4]
📍 UK Pavillion | Blue Zone
Locally-Led Adaptation as a means to achieve gender-just climate policy and finance!
Women-led organizations and diverse transgender-led groups face unique challenges in the context of climate change, while offering solutions that protect and care for territories and various sectors of society.
These organizations, together with women’s rights funds, share best practices at the local level on gender-responsive climate actions. Therefore, it is essential to discuss gender-just climate policies and financing, following the principles of Locally-Led Adaptation.
The event will be available for both in-person and online participation.
🕦 4pm [GMT +4]
📍 Extreme Hangouts | Green Zone
Global South Climate Philanthropies Meeting COP29 Meeting: One year after COP28, mobilising for COP30
One year ago, at COP28 in Dubai, a group of Global South Climate Philanthropies gathered to discuss the opportunity to collaboratively strategize how to address the existing gap between global decision making spaces and local realities. With foresight to COP30, the group identified the crucial need for unified action and strategic alignment among philanthropic organisations in the Global South to ensure more ambitious outcomes.
Now, one year since the start of these conversations, the group is coming together again in Baku to continue these discussions.
🗓️ November 16
🕦 11h30am [UTC/GMT +4]
📍 Side event 9 | Blue Zone
Financing Solutions from the Ground Up: Local, Territorial, and Activist Funds and the Power of the Philanthropic Architecture of the Global South
It is the Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLCs) and the socio-environmental movements, both rural and from urban peripheries of the Global South, that are leading the most effective solutions for biodiversity protection and climate regulation on the planet. Additionally, these communities promote the adaptation and resilience needed to face the emerging crises of our time.
Local, territorial, and activist funds represent the best means to channel financial resources and technical support at the appropriate scale to these communities in priority territories. They provide concrete responses to the challenges of climate philanthropy, ensuring that resources reach those who need them the most.
🕦 4h15pm [GMT +4]
📍 Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion
Funding the Planet’s Guardians – a gamified journey into the world of the Socio-environmental Funds of the Global South
The panel offers participants a unique experience through an interactive game that brings to life the complex challenges faced by communities in the Global South.
Divided into groups, participants will explore how local activist funds tackle obstacles to provide crucial resources for frontline communities confronting socio-environmental issues.
