Between 23 and 29 August 2025, the city of Rio de Janeiro will host Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW), a series of events dedicated to showcasing and mobilising climate action at all levels, bringing together representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors, along with financial institutions, philanthropic organisations and other agents to establish ambitions to deliver at the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30). During the week of the event, the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change will hold four activities, addressing different aspects of the theme with a number of partner institutions.
Among the six institutional hubs to host the week’s activities, the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) has set itself up as a centre of reference for mobilising representatives from science and civil society, organising three events with the participation of the OIMC. On Tuesday, 26 August, Auditorium 11 of the University’s Maracanã campus will host the roundtable discussion The Escazú Moment: From vision to victory in environmental protection and democracy, organised by the Observatory in partnership with the CIPÓ Platform and the Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente. Focused on the debate on how to transform visionary commitments for Latin America and the Caribbean, such as the Escazú Agreement and the Declaration of Belém, into concrete actions for environmental democracy, the event also promotes the launch of the policy brief Critical Evaluation of Principle 10: Challenges and Opportunities for the Region. To participate, register by clicking here.
On Thursday, 28 August, the Brazilian Coalition for Climate Education (CBEC) will hold a roundtable discussion entitled Education for the Climate Crisis: Knowledge and dialogue connecting generations and territories, in the Clio-Psyché Auditorium at UERJ. Promoted with the support of the OIMC and various civil society organisations, the activity aims to bring together diverse academic, popular and community knowledge to reflect on the paths towards an emancipatory, plural and territorialised climate education, articulated in the Manifesto for Climate Education, delivered to the COP30 presidency by the Coalition.
On Friday, 29 August, the Observatory will close the RCAW programme at UERJ with the inaugural lecture of our 5th Cycle of OIMC Webinars: The Climate Emergency and the Necessary Transformations: how to build fair social, ecological, and energy transitions?, given by Beatriz Mattos (CIPÓ Platform), Renata Albuquerque Ribeiro (LABMUNDO and Zero Carbon Analytics), and Carolina de Figueiredo Garrido (JUMA/PUC-Rio and OIMC) , and moderated by Prof. Ana Paula Tostes. This first fully in-person edition of the Cycle will be offered from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Jaime Antunes Auditorium (Room 9042 F).
Outside the series of activities at the University hub, on the same day, 29 August, the OIMC joins the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) to compose the panel Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, promoted by the Brazilian Centre for International Relations (Cebri). Starting at 10:30 a.m., the event will discuss ways to curb climate obstruction, including regulation, legal proceedings, and civil society movements, with the participation of professors J. Timmons Roberts (Brown University) and Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami), comments from Gabriel Gama (Folha de S. Paulo) and Andrea Hoffmann (IRI/PUC-Rio), and a presentation by Prof. Carlos R. S. Milani, coordinator of the Observatory. The debate will also be broadcast online via Cebri’s YouTube channel.
