Flourishing Diversity and UCL MAL to host global hybrid summit for COP30: MultiCOP
MultiCOP will take place in parallel with COP30. The event is an official part of the Brazilian COP30 Presidency’s ‘Global Mutirão’, providing a crucial access point for UCL staff, students, and the wider London community to engage directly with the climate debates taking place in Brazil.
MultiCOP will be a dynamic two-week programme at UCL, featuring a diverse series of events including panel discussions, art exhibits, film screenings, an Indigenous AI Hackathon, electronic music performances, museum interventions, and industry networking sessions. These events will connect in real-time with indigenous leaders in their communities, policy-makers in Belém, researchers and students in university hubs around the world, bringing traditional Indigenous knowledge holders into dialogue with UCL researchers from across faculties.
For more information about the events programme and submission process visit the UCL Multimedia Anthropology Lab website.
https://www.uclmal.com/multicop
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More about MultiCOP
MultiCOP aims to address the significant logistical and financial barriers that prevent many Indigenous peoples and traditional communities from attending the official negotiations in Belém, and pioneers a new, more inclusive model for future UN climate events.
The event is a major international collaboration between UCL research groups, Brazilian partner universities and Indigenous community leaders, bringing together the UCL Multimedia Anthropology Lab (UCL MAL) led by Dr Raffaella Fryer-Moreira, Flourishing Diversity and the Centre for the Anthropology of Sustainability (CAoS) led by Professor Jerome Lewis, the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, as well as Brazilian partners Fabiana Fernandes at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) and Guarani & Kaiowá filmmaker Scott Hill at the Institute for the Development of Art and Culture (IDAC), guided by an indigenous steering committee composed of community leaders from across Brazil.
The project is the result of an extended collaboration between UCL and Indigenous communities in Brazil, which examines the barriers to Indigenous participation in climate research, data analysis, biocultural heritage conservation and the public dissemination of knowledge. Following a UCL-led consultation with Indigenous leaders in April this year, supported by the UCL Grand Challenges: Decolonising Climate Crisis, Data Empowered Societies and the Institute for Global Prosperity. which highlighted the continued exclusion of indigenous communities from climate policy debates in the run-up to COP30, the MultiCOP event emerged as an effort to create an inclusive space for climate dialogues across cultural, geographic and disciplinary boundaries.
A final report of findings and policy recommendations from the summit will be co-authored by participants and formally delivered to the COP30 Presidency.
