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In 2025, the world will gather in Belém do Pará, Brazil — in the heart of the Amazon — for the 30th United Nations climate change conference (COP30). This moment is more than just another global summit. It is a turning point for our common home.
Learn more and take actionThe Amazon is a sanctuary of life — home to over 400 Indigenous peoples, countless species, and ecosystems that help regulate our planet’s climate. It is also one of the most threatened places on Earth, under constant attack from direct threats like illegal mining, ranching, and deforestation and from indirect threats like the forest fires made more intense by climate change.
By hosting COP30 in Brazil, the international community is being called to face the urgency of this crisis and to act decisively. The Amazon is not a backdrop — it is the front line.
For faith communities, young people, and frontline defenders across the globe, COP30 represents a sacred opportunity. A chance to re-center our response to the climate crisis around justice, solidarity, and care for Creation. A chance to defend the most vulnerable — both people and ecosystems — and to build a future rooted in integral ecology.
See what’s under discussion and take action from home.
This summit will take place not in a neutral space, but in a living, breathing symbol of all we are called to protect. As Pope Francis reminds us in Laudato Si’, “the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor are one.” Defending the Amazon is defending our shared future.
Join us on the journey.
We’ve created a special site where you can follow Laudato Si’ Movement’s path toward COP30, learn how to take action, and stand with communities on the front lines of climate injustice.
🌱 Visit LaudatoSiMovement.org/cop30 and be part of this historic moment for our common home.