Brazil Pavilions inaugurated at COP30 highlight national initiatives to combat climate change

The Blue and Green Zones are federal government spaces, coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA), designed to serve as venues for convergence between the Brazilian and international communities during the conference in Belém

The Brazil Pavilions in the Blue and Green Zones of COP30 were inaugurated this Monday, November 10, in Belém, Pará. 

Altogether, the spaces will host 286 panels (144 in the Blue Zone and 142 in the Green Zone) to present and discuss Brazil’s climate action efforts, with government officials, the private sector, academia, civil society, and social movements. The events will run through November 21.

Promoted by the Federal Government under the coordination of the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA), these pavilions serve as meeting points for the Brazilian and international communities. The venues will host discussions on the 30 strategic objectives of the Climate Action Agenda, Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), and the National Climate Plan, key instruments of the country’s strategy to tackle the climate crisis.

The Blue Zone Pavilion, where the climate negotiations will take place, was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva, Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara, Executive Secretary of the Office of the Chief of Staff Miriam Belchior, Bahia Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues, and COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago.

Minister Marina Silva said the Blue Zone Pavilion will serve as the conference’s “parliament,” open to broad public participation. “This space will be our Parlacop, our parliament. We will hold debates on a wide range of issues and topics from the most diverse sectors of society, which act as a source that feeds back into the negotiation process. Many of the discussions held here will strengthen the negotiation agenda on financing, adaptation, mitigation, and responses to the climate emergency,” she said.

Sonia Guajajara highlighted the leadership of women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, family farmers, and residents of urban peripheries in confronting climate change. She noted that, for the first time, a COP has more than 400 Indigenous representatives participating. “We built our own village, which we are calling the heart of the COP, because it is home to the greatest guardians of life. They are the ones ensuring that we still have the largest standing forest area, living biodiversity, and diverse cultures,” she declared.

COP30 President, Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, emphasized the symbolic and strategic significance of hosting the conference in the Amazon. “It is a unique opportunity for the world to understand the complexity and the role of Brazil in climate solutions,” he said, stressing that the conference seeks to bring the agendas of climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development closer together. “We must bring climate to the center of economic and social decision-making,” he added.

Green Zone

At the inauguration of the Green Zone Pavilion—a space designed to bring local communities closer to the climate negotiations—the governance of Brazil’s Climate Plan took center stage (read more here in Portuguese). The initiative, which will serve as a roadmap for the country’s climate action through 2035, is in its final validation phase after two years of participatory development. It will also guide the implementation of Brazil’s adaptation and mitigation targets under the new NDC, the national goal for greenhouse gas reduction by 2035.

The session focused on the structure of the initiative, which involves three technical advisory chambers directly linked to the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change (Comitê Interministerial sobre Mudança do Clima/CIM), chaired by the Office of the Chief of Staff, with the Environment and Climate Change Ministry serving as its executive secretariat. The Brazil Pavilion is the largest auditorium in the Green Zone, the public area of COP30 with open access and no circulation restrictions.

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