A political and collective community was born in 2025. The Global South House moved beyond being a dream to become an autonomous gravitational center within the funding ecosystem. We created a space for mutual strengthening, where the plurality of voices from the Global South recognized themselves in a shared identity and began to shape the international debate by speaking in the first person.
All of this becomes clear in Shared Ground: The Stories & Encounters of The Global South House, a deep and affective conversation recorded throughout the first edition of The Global South House during COP30. The dialogue brings together three voices who helped weave this history: Juliana Tinoco (Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur), Jonathas Azevedo (Rede Comuá), and Josimara Baré (Rede de Fundos Comunitários da Amazônia and Fundo Indígena Rutî).
In this exchange, the leaders reflect on how The Global South House was able to make concrete ideas that had previously seemed abstract. The conversation explores the creation of safe territories for exchange, the centrality of trust, and the challenge of transforming funding into a tool for socio-environmental justice. It offers a living synthesis of how we are changing the logic of the field, moving resources to where solutions truly pulse: at the heart of the territories, communities, and peoples of the Global South.
Our arrival in the Amazon for the first edition during COP30 was preceded by a strategic process of listening and presence. Each milestone along the road to COP30 helped consolidate an infrastructure of trust, enabling the Global South to move beyond reacting to external agendas and instead lead the proposal of a sovereign financial architecture rooted in life across the territories:
Road to COP30: Six preparatory meetings held between June and September, bringing together more than 100 participants from at least 40 socio-environmental justice funds.
London Climate Action Week: Our pre-launch convened 62 organizations, inviting the Global North into an honest dialogue on effectiveness and proximity.
São Paulo Climate Week: In Brazil, 17 organizations discussed financial flows through the lens of trust.
Virtual Launch: We connected 271 organizations representing 49 countries, consolidating a platform that was born with global reach and a shared commitment to transformation.
The Manifesto: Launched in October, “The Global South at the Center” marked the culmination of a collective process of listening and co-creation.
Our first in-person edition in the Brazilian Amazon was the stage where this collective effort took material form. The numbers reflect the scale of what we built: an average of 180 visitors per day, representatives from more than 500 organizations, and over 2,800 online views.
We broke through technical boundaries to address funding as what it truly is: a structural issue of power, territory, and finance. With 109 speakers and representatives from 50 countries, The Global South House demonstrated that trust-based work expands territorial autonomy and generates solutions that are more closely aligned with local realities.
If 2025 was a year of visibility and of reaffirming who we are, 2026 will be the year of systematization. Our focus now turns to institutional consolidation and to deepening our learnings. We will transform the momentum achieved during COP30 into solid foundations, with a strong emphasis on governance and on the replicability of this successful model.
The video we release today, Shared Ground, is only the beginning of a series of contents we will continue to share. We invite you to watch this inspiring conversation and to explore more than 35 hours of programming available on our channel.
The Global South House remains open. We understand that transforming climate, nature, and people-centered funding into a tool for socio-environmental justice is a path walked with clarity, strategy, and, above all, collective action.
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