What’s next after COP30: Building coalitions will ensure Global Mutirão delivers climate action

In the face of complex challenges, the Alliance finds hope in coalitions established at COP30: three initiatives to boost resilient landscapes and measure carbon removal. Countries’ continued commitments and climate-smart investments offer a model to inspire further food systems transformation.

COP30 in Belém convened at a moment when the world can no longer afford incrementalism. Temperatures are rising, extreme weather events are disrupting lives, and conflict and migration are being exacerbated by climate vulnerabilities. Ecosystems are degrading faster than they can recover. Against a complex geopolitical landscape, the summit elevated the concept of Global Mutirão, inspired by the Tupi-Guarani tradition of collective action, as a guiding ethos for climate ambition, reiterating the importance of collaboration to confront the scale of today’s climate challenges. Over two weeks, negotiators, Indigenous leaders, scientists, and practitioners worked to advance measurable progress, including through the operationalization of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), the first global framework to track resilience outcomes and guide adaptation finance to the sectors most at risk, including agriculture and food systems.