The Hub Culture Climate Campus Belém has been the center of numerous conversations, strategy work and discussions during COP30. As the ground up efforts of the global climate community come into focus, here are some of the conclusions and emerging commitments for the Amazon, oceans and nature at large coming out of the Campus.

Following COP30, Hub Culture is working with its partners to evolve the Climate Campus into a three year programme focused on the Amazônia bioregion, including coastal areas, with the creation of Hub Amazônia. The project is anchored on an extension of support for Hub Floresta venue host Náutica Clube do Remo, with a three year support programme and sponsorship of the Club to support education, nature and innovation in the bioregion.

One initial ambition is to weave a story between COP30 and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics by building small rowing scholarships for training women and to support general rowing training programmes provided to the regional community by the Club, in an effort to improve performance in regional and national rowing compettions in Brazil, all with an eye toward the 2028 Olympics.  

This will involve a small annual sponsorship investment by Hub Culture for the Club to help fund rower programmes, especially for young women at risk of human trafficking, and become a catalyst for further partnerships and involvment by the Hub Culture global community. Additionally Hub Culture will help craft globally available engagement opportunities for its community to continue engagement with the Amazônia region, using the Club as an ongoing digital and physical Hub base.

The funding programme includes support for the creation of SOA Belém, in coordination with the Sustainable Ocean Alliance Brazil, in a funding mechanism to support Blue Carbon investment in the region via the Ocean Climate Fund. Find out more about funding commitements from COP30 by the Ocean Climate Fund here, which include commitments on marine infrastructure and coral regeneration, ocean data and blue living carbon.

Hub Amazônia also plans to work with the World Climate Foundation and Psica, hosts of another Campus location, Casa Dourada, to anchor a digital Hub interface for the long term, and to focus Hub Amazônia as a springboard for both Atlantic Ocean and Amazônia region initiatives after COP30.

Working with photographer Victor Bezerra, work is underway to publish the co-created story at the Campus, called Sunglight on the Amazon, an Embodied and Enchanted COP, with proceeds to benefit the Hub Amazônia generally.

The emergence of a digital multirão is another area of focus coming out of the Campus, with an inititative from the Vibe Coding for the Amazon hackathon taking shape. The digital multirão conversation is led by GLOCHA and Sustainchain to bring dozens of organizations into combined civil society coordinated action on Climate and saving the Amazon from its tipping points. 

For highlights of conversations, initiatives, solutions and challenges, watch coverage of the Campus at Hub Culture video. To be part of collaborative action on the new Hub Amazônia and to be part of the development of that initiative, be sure to join the Belém Hub.