World leaders, scientists, activists and many others are gathered in Brazil for the COP30 conference to set international goals and policies to mitigate the danger of unchecked global climate change. As a participant in many of these meetings throughout the…
‘We could all be climate refugees’
Naira Santa Rita, an internally displaced person from Brazil, directed her message to the entire audience: “Anyone of us in this room could be a climate refugee.” In a space shared by people from across the world, these were the…
At COP30, a conversation about spiritual change
Where are we? Where do we want to go? And how will we get there? Those are the three questions asked at a Talanoa dialogue, a structured conversation held in groups as a way to find a way forward at…


