The Hub Culture Climate Campus in Belém for COP30 brings together climate and nature action stakeholders to work and collaborate at the edge of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem. View and register to attend events.

The project spans 4 unique "Hub Biomes" with capabilities for different audiences, linked around a public square, the Praça Frei Caetano Brandão in the city center. Conference, gathering, panel and dining concepts are collated together with opportunities to engage multiple stakeholders across COP30.

The Climate Campus concept is based on a network of social biomes:

The Hub Commons Park - informal outdoor experiences, evening musical performances and networing in the Praça Frei Brandâo.

The Hub Cuisine at Celeste, a group dining, daytime talks, and co-working experience with a special investors lunch on Friday, 14 November.

The Hub Oceans led by Visions of the Ocean, featuring event theatres, a screening venue, workshops and conference space with interviews and social media action from the Hub Culture studio team.

The Hub Floresta, with local event and conference space for up to 200 focused on regenerative biological systems, featuring a cocktail reception with Hedera, a full day regnerative economics and technology conference with Hedera, and an Indigenous connections evening linking indigenous tribes from the Amazon with global counterparts.

The Hub Social Impact with Casa Dorade @ COP led by Psica and World Climate Foundation offers co-working, panels, and private dining, bilateral sessions.

Dream New Dreams

Belém in 2025 is a study of contrasts: with over 2.4 million inhabitants and economic output of over $18 Billion annually, the city represents a seemingly incongruous idea - that of the "Urban Amazon" - a place where the economic outputs of the Amazon region can be translated into human benefits and global capital. However, the ability to develop such resources in a consistent and sustainable manner, so that the Amazon region itself is not exploited or damaged, has remained elusive.  Belém's capability to capture economic value from the natural resources passing through has also been limited, but signs of an impending local boom are everywhere - from new luxury construction towers to startup incubators working to develop natural and financial assets linked to the Amazon region itself.

It can be said that Belém and its upriver cousin Manaus stand to benefit from a richer, prosperous Amazon region, along with the tribes and communities in the millions who inhabit the deeper Amazon itself.  On the other hand research shows that in Brazil every steak consumed contributes to about a sheet of paper's worth of Amazon forest destruction: there is a direct correlation between resource consumption and natural destruction. As COP30 and the Climate Campus work in Belém, addressing these inherent conflicts and building space for solutions that mitigate are at the center of project ambition.

In short, COP30 presents a chance to tell new stories and dream new dreams - for the emerging Amazon/Urban confluence, the protection of natural assets, the living experience and access to opportunity for the region as a whole.