Even before COP30 begins — scheduled for November 10–21 — Belém will host an unprecedented initiative: the House of Socio-Environmental Journalism. This space will serve as a central and operational base to host journalists from different Brazilian states and will feature an extensive program aimed at communication professionals and civil society. Activities begin on November 3 and are the result of a collaborative effort to include new local and global perspectives and broaden audience engagement during the event.

Throughout the month, the House will host workshops, panels, debates, and other activities focused on journalism and socio-environmental topics, as well as report launches, tools, and other resources for both the press and civil society. The schedule can be found here.

Purpose: strengthening socio-environmental journalism

The House will strengthen the journalistic coverage of 21 media outlets, including InfoAmazonia. Before, during, and after COP30, they will share and republish each other’s content to better inform their audiences about the conference and the Leaders’ Summit.

“This project is the result of a collective effort born from a shared passion for journalism and the environment. We’ve brought together reporters and outlets who have long told the most urgent climate stories so that, together, we can bring new voices and perspectives to the world’s largest climate event. InfoAmazonia is deeply proud to build this initiative alongside so many partners we admire — and to place at the center of COP30 the issues and territories that might otherwise be left aside”, Stefano Wrobleski, executive director of InfoAmazonia.

Partner outlets will also have access to workspace infrastructure throughout the month. The House will serve as a hub for dozens of journalists from across the country, offering a setting to exchange information, make new connections, and form partnerships for collaborative reporting.

Who are the partners?

The House initiative was conceived and organized over the past year by the teams at InfoAmazonia, #Colabora, Envolverde, Eco Nordeste, ((o))eco, Amazônia Vox, the Associação de Jornalismo Digital (Ajor), and Open Knowledge Brasil.

Also taking part in this joint coverage effort are: Agência Pública, Alma Preta, Ambiental Media, AzMina, Carta Amazônia, Ciência Suja, Intercept Brasil, Nexo, O Joio e O Trigo, Repórter Brasil, Revista Cenarium, Site Independente A LENTE, Agência Urutau, O Varadouro, and Voz da Terra.

To ensure more diverse and representative coverage, the outlets will divide the most relevant daily topics among themselves. This will help avoid duplicated stories and expand the reach of journalistic production, centering voices from marginalized communities and traditional peoples, as well as the challenges of climate negotiations.

International audiences will also have access to the coverage, with more than 70 reports translated and made available to media outlets publishing in English and Spanish through the distribution networks of LatAm Intersect PR, Approach, Impronta Comunicación Estratégica, and MullenLowe, in addition to the partners of the participating outlets. All content will be freely shared with the InfoAmazonia Citizen Network, a coalition of 25 journalism organizations from the nine Amazonian states.

The House of Socio-Environmental Journalism is funded by the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA), whose structural support makes the initiative possible. It also receives support from the Itaú Foundation, with expanded participation in activities, and from the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS), which plays a key role in strengthening the project.

The network of supporters also includes the Amazon Conservation Association, Pulitzer Center, Greenpeace, Covering Climate Now, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Institute for the Man and the Environment of the Amazon (Imazon), Oxfam Brasil, Ciência Hoje, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, ITS Rio, and the AdaptaCidades initiative, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) of Brazil, with resources from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Original content produced

The outlets participating in the House of Socio-Environmental Journalism will produce various content formats to expand reach and ensure real-time, in-depth coverage.

Among the highlights of the collaborative coverage is a real-time feed, a platform that will bring minute-by-minute updates on official and parallel COP30 events in Belém. Featuring multimedia content — including text, photos, audio, and short videos — it will be constantly updated by more than 30 reporters from national and local media outlets specializing in socio-environmental reporting.

The real-time feed will be embedded on all partner websites, allowing readers to follow updates while accessing full stories on each outlet’s platform.

By bringing together dozens of journalists in a shared effort, the initiative aims to deliver a pluralistic coverage that will mark COP30 as one of the largest collaborative exercises in socio-environmental journalism in Brazil.