Kumi Naidoo

An inspiring conversation here in Belém, grateful to have met with Marcele Oliveira, Presidency Youth Climate Champion (PYCC) for #COP30 🌎

Youth voices and youth-led solutions truly are a vital part of our fight against the climate crisis. Together, we are stronger. 📣

@fossiltreaty.bsky.social

👉 For those on-the-ground in Belém, join us in “Climate, Culture and the African Diaspora: connecting territories and ancestral narratives for climate justice” during #COP30

📍Blue Zone, Entertainment & Culture Pavillion
🗓️November 12th, 5:30-7:00 PM

How do we collectively explore culture and artistic expression to mobilize youth, strengthen the protection of territories and preservation of traditional knowledge, and expand the fight for climate justice?

Join the International Labour Organization, UNICEF, FAO & UNRISD for a side event taking a deep-dive on the social protection commitments of the Belém declaration. Grateful to be moderating this very important conversation.

📅 12 Nov | 15.00 (UTC−3) In-person only
🔗 Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4p1mbEQ

To learn more about how governments can make billionaires and big polluters pay their share, Oxfam's new report reveals the staggering scale of carbon inequality between the richest and the rest of the world, driving all of us deeper into intersecting crises.

🔗 Read more: oxf.am/climateplunder

👉 For those on-the-ground in Belém, join us at the UNFCCC side event hosted by 350org, @oxfaminternational , and the End Austerity Campaign, on “Securing Ambitious COP Outcomes and Future Finance for Climate Justice.”

📍Side Event Room 1
🗓️Tuesday, 11 November, 11:30-13:00

The climate crisis is happening now, but those experiencing the worst of its impacts are people who’ve contributed the least to ecological breakdown.

Now at #COP30, we are calling for climate justice and fair finance.​

📍 Find us in the UNFCCC Exhibit area (blue zone) — grab flyers, stickers, badges, and limited-edition tees 👕

Let’s connect and build momentum toward a fossil-free future! ✊
#FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutFossilFuels #ClimateAction

🌍 Visit the Fossil Fuel Phase Out Hub at #COP30!

If you are at the COP then please come by and visit us.
Join us as we push forward for a fossil fuel phaseout that’s fast, fair, and funded. 💪

Minister Menezes reminded us that art, imagination, and culture are not accessories to change — they are the change.|

Brazil is showing the world what it means to put culture at the heart of climate justice.

The road to COP30 will be powered by imagination, solidarity, and art that transforms.

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🇧🇷✨ Strengthening the Artivism Movement in Brazil ✨
At the close of the Global Artivism Convening in Salvador, we met with Brazil's Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes
— a true champion of creativity and justice.

🎨🌎Artists and activists from around the world gathered in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, for the Second Global Artivism Convening.

“Let COP30 mark the turning point — from betrayal to bravery, from extraction to regeneration.” — Kumi Naidoo

Read the full declaration ➡️ drive.google.com/file/d/1byVk...

#GlobalArtivism #ArtForClimateJustice #COP30 #FossilFuelTreaty

🌍✨ From Tshwane to Salvador, artists and activists are uniting for climate justice!

Over 1,000 changemakers gathered in Salvador, Bahia for the Second Global Artivism Convening — linking art, culture, and climate ahead of #COP30.

@afp.com @apnews.com @reuters.com

#GlobalArtivism

Global Artivism Convening call on Government Leaders attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil to

🔥 End fossil fuels now
⚖️ Center intersectional justice
🪶 Protect Indigenous & frontline communities
🎭 Invest in culture & imagination

@afp.com @apnews.com @reuters.com

drive.google.com/file/d/1byVk...

Emissions Gap Report 2025 UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report 2025: Off Target finds that available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course of this century, leav...

We must act now, to phase-out the root cause of global greenhouse gas emissions—coal, oil, and gas. Every fraction of a degree avoided saves lives and helps prevent irreversible tipping points.

🔗 Read more www.unep.org/resources/em...

#FossilFuelTreaty #UNEP #EmissionsGapReport

Humanity is headed for 2.3–2.5°C of warming. And the countries most affected are those least responsible.

Join us at our events at #COP30 in Belém as we bring together governments & civil society to advance the push for a Fossil Fuel Treaty! 🇧🇷✊🏽

📅 See the full schedule: FossilFuelTreaty.org/cop30

Tomorrow, I’ll be standing in for my wife Louisa Zondo after the loss of our dearest friend- Xoliswa Kakakna. Join Shawnee Benton Gibson, Omari Maynard, and me for this conversation on love, loss, and liberation.

Grief is not just what happens to us — it’s what can awaken us.

When Grief Becomes a Movement: Stories of Love, Loss, and Liberation
📅Nov 05, 2025 (Wednesday)
⌚10:30–11:45 AM
📍 Salade Arte Cinema do Museu — just a 10-minute walk from Wish Hotel Bahia

#GlobalArtivism

The Journey Fund The Journey Fund leverages decades of impact and sustainability investing experience to generate attractive returns and enhanced social, environmental, and economic outcomes to create a regenerative f...

Developed in partnership with the #FossilFuelTreaty Initiative, the Journey Fund is the first ever fund pairing government fossil fuel phase-out commitments with private investments.

🔗 Learn more: thejourney.fund

The Just Transition is no longer only an idea—it’s happening and it is building post-fossil economies.

Louisa should have been here co-chairing the Convening's programme — instead, she is now walking through the sacred work of saying goodbye to her dearest friend, Xoli, and helping arrange her final goodbyes.

At the opening of the Second Global Artivism Convening, we honoured two beautiful souls, our son Riky Rick & our dearest friend, Xoliswa Kakana.

Their courage and creativity keep guiding us toward justice.

Here is a poem to our dear friend Xoli.
🕊️ For Xoliswa — Sister of the Mountain

Louisa should have been here co-chairing the Convening's programme — instead, she is now walking through the sacred work of saying goodbye to her dearest friend, Xoli, and helping arrange her final goodbyes.

Today is Day 1! 😀
The Global Artivism team has brought together artists, activists, and communities from around the world to inspire the positive change we wish to see — today, and for generations to come. 💫
join us: https://f.mtr.cool/zxyxysvovl

Tomorrow it begins. 🎨
The #GlobalArtivism Convening gathers artists & activists in Salvador 🇧🇷 — to turn imagination into courage & hope into action.

Join us in person or online 🌎
👉🏾 globalartivism.org

#Artivism #KumiNaidoo #VoicesOfArtivism #PessimismIsALuxury

From Nov 3–5, 2025, Take part in a dynamic program of the Second Global Artivism Convening, which celebrates creativity, collective action, and the power of arts in making change.

Join us in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and check out the Full program here: linktr.ee/globalartivi...

Only 2 days to go until the #GlobalArtivism Convening in Salvador 🇧🇷!
Artists & activists are coming together to turn creativity into resistance & hope into strategy.
Join us — in person or online 🌍
👉🏾 globalartivism.org

🎨 For Edgard Gouveia Jr., Program Co-Chair of the Second Global Artivism Convening, Artivism means harnessing the strategies and power of art to tackle the world’s biggest social challenges.

🌍 Join us on from Nov 3–5, 2025.

🔗 Register app.glueup.com/event/the-se...

💻Online participation is free!