The United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2025, COP30, takes place in the Global South, more precisely in Belém do Pará, Brazil. Among its key themes is the discussion on climate action financing. Beyond the negotiations between countries and debates around traditional financing mechanisms, COP30 will seek to unlock resources from diverse sources with the goal of accelerating efforts to confront climate change, especially focusing on the countries of the Global South.
In dialogue with this agenda, The Global South House looks at the architecture of climate and nature financing from and for the Global South, demonstrating that there are local mechanisms that ensure resources reach movements, communities, and people in these territories.
To broaden reach and impact, it is essential that more resources are directed toward strengthening the financing ecosystem of and for the South, involving a diversity of actors in collaborative arrangements that accelerate systemic transformation in favor of socio-environmental justice.
The launch of The Global South House during COP30 is strategic: it marks the first time that the United Nations Climate Conference will be held in the Amazon territory. After three consecutive editions with reduced civil society engagement, COP30 is committed to being a more democratic and open space for activists and organizations to push for more ambitious climate action.
In this context, the Brazilian presidency proposes that COP30 be conducted as a Global Mutirão — a call for cooperation among peoples, sectors, and territories, to transform commitments into effective action against the climate crisis. The idea of the mutirão comes from the collective knowledge of Indigenous, Quilombola, and peripheral communities. An ancestral word originating from the Tupi-Guarani motirõ, mutirão represents a community action for the common good.
The Global South House responds to this call, joining the global mutirão for climate and socio-environmental justice. It mobilizes experiences, resources, and knowledge from the South, for the South, and for the world. A mutirão of philanthropy that affirms the plurality of possible paths and proposes, from the territories, new ways of financing life and the solutions that already exist, resist, and flourish.
The Global South House will take place in a space located in the heart of Belém, in front of the Praça da República, inside the iconic Edifício Manoel Pinto da Silva. It will be located about 9 km from the official COP30 venue.
Inaugurated in the 1950s, the Edifício Manoel Pinto da Silva was, for many years, the tallest building in the entire Amazon, marking the beginning of the city’s verticalization. An icon of modernist architecture in the region, the building remains emblematic in Belém’s urban landscape. The Global South House will occupy the first floor, where the CANTO Coworking operates — a space that preserves original elements from that era, such as the Raio-que-o-parta mosaic panels, a symbol of popular Amazonian modernism.
With a view of historic landmarks such as the Theatro da Paz and the Cinema Olympia, and located along the route of the Círio de Nazaré — one of the largest religious manifestations in the world — the Global South House will be held in an area that breathes culture, memory, and popular mobilization.
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