Several members of the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project are present the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10–21 November 2025.
Researchers from across the network will engage in side events, research, and discussions on a wide range of climate governance topics — from environmental human rights defenders and global tipping points to private climate diplomacy. Members attending COP30 are encouraged to add their details and side events to the shared participation sheet to meet others from the community and help us at the International Office amplify visibility through our channels. Below we have listed some of the side-events that ESG members are organizing or taking part in.
Side-events:
- Manjana Milkoreit (Stockholm Resilience Centre / Global Tipping Points)
- “A New Reality: Highlights from the Global Tipping Points Report” (10 Nov, 3-4pm, Planetary Science Pavillion)
- “Building Tipping Point Governance: Regional Science-Policy Interchanges for Anticipating, Avoiding & Adapting” (12 Nov, 9-9:45am, Nordic Pavillion)
- Fariborz Zelli (Lund University / Environmental Human Rights Defenders project)
- “The Need to Recognise Environmental Defenders in the UNFCCC Process: Voices from Latin America” (14 Nov, 4:45–6:15pm, Room 6)
- Åsa Persson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- “Energy Transitions” (15 Nov, 8:30am, Nordic Pavilion), among others
- Yixian Sun (University of Bath / SGAIN project)
- “Traceability and Land-Use Transition: Converging Climate, Production, and Inclusion” (16 Nov, time tbc)
- “Sino-Brazilian Experiences in Forests and Infrastructure” (17 Nov, 9:30–10:45am, Legal Amazon Consortium Pavilion)
- “Sunrise on Distributed Renewables and Sunset on Coal Plants: Learnings for Global South” (19 Nov, 4:15-5:15pm, Regional Climate Foundations Pavilion)
- Cristina Inoue (Radboud University / CAMAMAZON project) and Lauri Peterson (University of Eastern Finland – ACHIEVE project)
- “Climate, Nature & People: Advancing the Global Mutirão Vision” (20 Nov, 6:30-8pm, Side Event Room 2).
More ESG scholars will be present throughout COP30, undertaking research within the framework of different projects, among others:
- Veronica Korber Goncalves
- Maria Jernnäs (Linköping University)
- Anna Fünfgeld (Hamburg University / ClimaCOP2 project)
- Mikael Karlsson (Uppsala University / Private Climate Diplomacy project)
Questions? Contact the International Office at ipo@earthsystemgovernance.org
