CEE to Bring Voices from the Global Ethical Stocktake to COP30
CEE’s Karenna Gore, Samira Siddique, Clara Chavez-Ives and Rosie Semlyen are heading to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The Center’s delegation will amplify voices and ideas from the Global Ethical Stocktake—a groundbreaking global initiative to center the moral, ethical, and cultural dimensions of the climate crisis.
In a recent profile in Columbia Climate School’s State of the Planet, Karenna outlined her hopes for the UN climate conference:
I hope to elevate the moral and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis, support efforts to accelerate the global transition away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy and energy efficiency, participate in movement-building towards regenerative agriculture, promote the integration of traditional ecological knowledge alongside Western science, and learn more about what is necessary to provide adequate climate finance to peoples and places that need it. I also hope to get a sense of how Center for Earth Ethics can best serve in this arena while remaining primarily accountable to the long-term well-being of the whole community of life.
On the ground, the CEE team will participate in the Global Ethical Stocktake pavilion, related programming at the TED Countdown House, and closely follow the negotiation outcomes at COP. Karenna will join Marina Silva and Wanjira Mathai for a panel on the Global Ethical Stocktake, moderated by Al Gore. Samira will join a session exploring how faith, spirituality and moral imagination can drive courageous climate action.
All are invited to join “Empowering Communities, Protecting Planet,” a live-streamed panel on Friday November 14 at 5 p.m. ET, where Karenna will join global leaders for a conversation hosted by the Brahma Kumaris Environment Initiative. Panelists will share practical examples of innovation, collaboration and policy progress emerging in the COP—and first-hand accounts of the transformative wisdom needed to tackle the most pressing challenges of our time.