COP30 Presidency launches global Mutirão platform to mobilize worldwide climate action

New digital platform brings together and highlights local and global initiatives to tackle the climate crisis, encouraging the participation of individuals, communities, governments, and organizations

The Brazilian Presidency of COP30 today unveiled the official Global Mutirão platform within the COP30 website, a new digital entry point to unite and amplify climate action around the world. Inspired by Brazil’s ancestral traditions of collective effort and solidarity, the Global Mutirão is a rallying call for individuals, communities, and institutions everywhere to join hands in delivering climate solutions at scale.

Rooted in the Tupi-Guarani concept of "mutirão", a self-organized effort to support one another in times of need, the Global Mutirão aims to bridge the gap between global climate ambition and everyday realities. With COP30 quickly approaching in Belém, the platform helps people understand how to contribute to climate implementation through self-determined contributions that reflect their own capacities, contexts, and priorities.

The Global Mutirão recognizes that while climate change is a global challenge, the most powerful solutions often begin locally. It invites everyone, from coastal villages to capital cities, from classrooms to boardrooms, to take part in this unprecedented movement. Contributions can be as small as a community clean-up or as large as a city-wide emissions reduction campaign. All actions are welcome. All voices matter.

“The Global Mutirão is a call to everyone, not just to speak about change, but to be the change,” said Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, President-Designate of COP30. “We know that millions of people around the world are already taking action to protect their communities, their ecosystems, and their future. The Global Mutirão offers a unifying space for these efforts to be seen, supported, and scaled.”

The launch of the platform comes at a critical moment. With the first Global Stocktake (GST) revealing the world needs to scale action to be aligned with Paris Agreement goals, the Global Mutirão emerges as a people-powered mechanism to advance climate implementation. It is anchored in the six axes of the COP30 Action Agenda, from clean energy to resilient cities, and offers an accessible way for citizens and organizations to align their actions with the UN climate process.

“Adaptation begins in communities, with the people who are already living the realities of climate change,” said Ana Toni, CEO of COP30. “The Global Mutirão is critical because it recognizes that when local actions are supported, seen, and connected, they create ripple effects that influence systems, policies, and outcomes. COP30 is an opportunity to catalyze a new era of climate action - one that is inclusive, practical, and rooted in real life.”

Global Mutirões Underway: Local Actions, Global Resonance

To mark the Global Mutirão’s launch, two powerful mobilizations will take place in the coming days, demonstrating how collective, decentralized action can shape global climate ambition.

Saturday, September 20: World Cleanup Day

Across Brazil and around the world, civil society organizations, communities, and local authorities will come together for a coordinated wave of environmental cleanup actions. From beaches to rivers, urban parks to mangroves, these mutirões will spotlight the links between waste, pollution, climate justice, and planetary health.

This effort brings visibility to climate-related issues such as:

• Solid waste and plastic pollution as drivers of methane and CO₂ emissions;

• Environmental justice, especially in vulnerable coastal and urban communities;

• The urgent need for circular economy practices and sustainable consumption.

Cleanup mutirões are laboratories of civic engagement and climate education that connect territory with transition, and people with policy.

Monday, September 22: World Car-Free Day

In cities across Brazil and abroad, people will take to the streets on bikes, on foot, and through public transport to reimagine how we move through urban space. These events call attention to the climate and health impacts of car-centered mobility and highlight the need to prioritize accessible, clean, and inclusive alternatives.

The Car-Free Day Mutirão amplifies key messages:

• Transportation is a major source of emissions and urban inequality;

• Low-carbon cities are healthier, safer, and more just;

• Every street reclaimed for people is a statement of climate possibility.

These actions are part of the growing #MutiraoCOP30 movement, demonstrating that climate solutions are already in motion. They are a reminder that the road to Belém runs through every neighborhood, every classroom, every local park.

For more information, please visit Mutirão COP30.