Brazil, Belém
08-21 Noviembre, 2025
Brasil

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP30, will be will be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025.
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Progress has always relied on changes in perspective. Today, we must realise what is blocking prosperity: old ideas that don’t work for today’s world. Two-thirds of the energy used is wasted. 4.6 trillion dollars every year. This translates into shrinking margins for companies, rising bills for households with less comfort, and increasing pressure on both sovereignty and sustainability.

At COP30 in Belém, the Solar Impulse Foundation comes with one clear mission: to prove that efficiency is the most powerful lever for climate action.

Through strategic collaborations and insights, we’re scaling up clean, profitable solutions that deliver tangible results. Among our key initiatives is the joint publication with the European Commission, ENERGY €FFICI€NCY: The Silent Money Maker, a showcase of real-world success stories where efficiency drives savings, and innovative financial mechanisms power growth. Together with UNEP and the GlobalABC, we’re advancing the Catalogue of Climate Solutions for Buildings, a practical roadmap to reduce emissions in one of the world’s most resource-intensive sectors.

In Belém, we’re not just presenting solutions; we’re forging the connections that will make them the global standard.


Our initiatives at COP30

ENERGY €FFICI€NCY: The Silent Money Maker

ENERGY €FFICI€NCY: The Silent Money Maker, developed with the European Commission, lays the groundwork for an updated narrative that positions energy efficiency as a core economic imperative.

Read the Publication

Catalogue of Climate Solutions for Buildings

Catalogue of Climate Solutions for Buildings, created with UNEP’s GlobalABC, identifies ready-to-deploy technologies to decarbonise the global built environment.

Read the Catalogue

COP30 calendario de acciones

15:30 - 17:00

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Suiza en la COP30: Reforzar las asociaciones para el clima

High-level event to launch Switzerland’s presence at COP30 and celebrate the enhanced bilateral cooperation with Brazil in the field of climate and environment, marked by Switzerland’s second contribution to the Amazon Fund.

Speakers:

  • Ambassador Hanspeter Mock, Embassy of Switzerland in Brazil
  • Ambassador Felix Wertli, Head of International Affairs Division, FOEN

Keynote: 
  • Bertrand Piccard, Founder of the Solar Impulse Foundation & Chairman of Climate Impulse


Organiser: Swiss Ambassy to Brazil

18:30 - 20:00

Blue Zone, Side Event Room 4

La aviación internacional y el ODS7: Acelerar la transición mundial hacia una energía limpia hacia el cielo

En este evento se explicará cómo contribuye el sector de la aviación internacional al ODS7 sobre energía limpia y a los temas relacionados sobre la protección de los bosques y la biodiversidad y el apoyo al desarrollo socioeconómico. La OACI hablará de su próximo Pacto de la Energía para la Aviación en el marco del Pacto de la Energía de las Naciones Unidas.

Organsier: Organización de Aviación Civil Internacional (OACI)

09:00 - 10:00

Global Renewables Hub

Eficiencia en acción: El motor silencioso de la competitividad

Energy efficiency has long been called the “first fuel” of the transition - but in practice, it remains the most undervalued. While efficiency could deliver over 40% of the emissions reductions needed to reach net zero, investments are still falling short, even though they offer the highest return per euro spent.

At COP30, where attention will focus on implementation and industrial decarbonisation, this session will bring efficiency to the forefront - not as an abstract policy goal, but as a proven engine of competitiveness. The event, co-hosted with the Energy Efficiency Movement, will highlight concrete examples from leading companies and financiers showing how efficiency cuts costs, creates jobs, strengthens supply-chain resilience, and can be a bankable investment, while driving measurable emission reductions.

Through two linked dialogues - one on deployment and one on finance - the session will show that the solutions already exist, and that scaling them is a question of structure, not technology.

Confirmed speakers:

  • Ambroise Fayolle, European Investment Bank
  • Ditte Juul Jørgensen, European Commission
  • Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse Foundation
  • Shanta Barley, Fortescue
  • Linda Pålsson, Afry
  • Anna Celsing, Alfa Laval
  • Esther Finidori, Schneider Electric
  • Mike Umiker, Energy Efficiency Movement
  • Zoisa North-Bond, Octopus Energy Generation
  • Dana Barsky, Standard Chartered Bank
  • Mario Giordano, Signify                        
  • Joan Ko, Arup

Organisers: Energy Efficiency Movement & Solar Impulse Foundation

12:00 - 15:00

Climate Action House, Pomme d’Or, Nazaré

Almuerzo de líderes: El primer dividendo de la eficiencia

An invitation-only dialogue hosted by Climate Action, where Bertrand Piccard joins business and finance leaders to explore how putting efficiency first can deliver the fastest and most profitable path to net zero.

Organiser: Climate Action

16:30 - 17:15

We Don't Have Time Studio, Blue Zone

Retransmisión en directo con We Don't Have Time

Kicking off the We Don’t Have Time COP30 broadcast COP30 series, this opening session will spotlight energy efficiency as a cornerstone of climate action. The discussion will explore how smarter energy use can boost prosperity, resilience, and emissions reductions across sectors worldwide.

Confirmed speakers:

  • Ambroise Fayolle, European Investment Bank
  • Teresa Ribera, European Commission
  • Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse Foundation
  • Ditte Juul Jørgensen, European Commission
  • Thomas Brose, Climate Alliance 
  • Mike Umiker, Energy Efficiency Movement
  • Christine Juste, City of Marseille

16:00 - 17:00

Axis 1 Thematic Room, Blue Zone

Mesa redonda sobre la aplicación del PAS para la eficiencia de las misiones

This interactive session will convene governments, financiers and Mission Efficiency partners to co-design pathways for financing and accelerating the implementation of the global goal to double energy efficiency improvement by 2030. As part of the COP30 Activation Group process, the workshop will focus on translating the Mission Efficiency Plan to Accelerate Solutions (PAS) into concrete actions and partnerships that unlock investment and deliver measurable impact by 2030.

The Solar Impulse Foundation has played a key role in Mission Efficiency and is invited to contribute, particularly by sharing insights on the EIB initiative supporting over 350,000 European companies in boosting energy efficiency.

Confirmed speakers:

  • Dan Ioshpe, COP30 Climate Champion
  • Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse Foundation
  • Heike Henn, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  • Luke Menzel, Energy Efficiency Council
  • Rana Ghoneim, UNIDO
  • Daniel Alexander Schroth, African Development Bank
  • Jon Creyts, RMI
  • Alex Perera, WRI
  • Steve Kukoda, International Copper Association
  • Mario Giordano, Signify

Organiser: Mission Efficiency

12:00 - 13:15

Buildings & Cooling Pavilion

Impulsar la adopción mundial de tecnologías y soluciones climáticas consolidadas para los edificios

This session, co-organised with UNEP’s Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, will explore how proven technologies and practical solutions can accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings worldwide, unlocking massive energy and cost savings.

Confirmed speakers:

  • Ariesta Ningrum, UNEP
  • Dietram Oppelt, UNFCCC
  • Bertrand Piccard, President, Solar Impulse Foundation
  • Bethany Patten, MIT Climate Policy Center
  • El Hadji Diop, National Designated Entity, Senegal
  • Zoe Norgate, UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Roberto Rossi, Schneider Electric Brazil

Organisers: UNEP, GlobalABC & Solar Impulse Foundation

17:00 - 18:00

Assembleia Paraense in Belém

Conferencias de clausura: Justicia, resiliencia y esperanza

Estas reflexiones finales ponen de relieve cómo la financiación climática inclusiva y la filantropía catalizadora pueden impulsar la resiliencia y la equidad desde el ámbito local al mundial. Mientras Brasil lidera el camino hacia una COP de Implementación, el mensaje es claro: la justicia y la esperanza deben llegar a través de la acción, no de la intención.

Ponentes principales:

  • Bertrand Piccard, Presidente de la Fundación Solar Impulse
  • Maria Netto, Directora Ejecutiva del Instituto para el Clima y la Sociedad (iCS)
  • Sir Andrew Steer, KCMG, PhD, Profesor de Práctica, Escuela Global de Sostenibilidad, y Centro Internacional de Crecimiento, London School of Economics
  • Flora Bitancourt, Directora para Brasil, Fundación Mundial del Clima

15:00 - 16:00

We Mean Business Pavilion (Blue Zone)

WBCSD COP30 Diálogo sobre inversiones en transporte y movilidad

The session will convene leading voices from business, government, and finance to share practical insights and solutions – being policy, standards, technology and finance - that can facilitate scaling private sector investments and required policies and ensure the global transport transition is not only timely and climate-aligned, but also economically resilient and socially inclusive - delivering benefits for people, nature, and business alike.

Organiser: WBCSD


16:00 - 17:00

French Pavilion

Optimizar la demanda, descarbonizar la oferta: Impulsar la transición energética

This two-part high-level session, co-organised with Schneider Electric, ENGIE, and ClimateSAN, will explore how optimising energy demand and decarbonising energy supply, supported by financial innovation and enhanced by artificial intelligence, can jointly accelerate the global energy transition by scaling efficiency, electrification, renewables, and green molecules across sectors to deliver measurable impact.

Confirmed speakers:

  • Tony Agotha, European External Action Service
  • Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse Foundation
  • Jon Creyts, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Lord Adair Turner, Energy Transitions Commission
  • Gilles Vermot-Desroches, Schneider Electric
  • Florence Colombo-Fouquet, ENGIE
  • Sonia Thimmiah, the Heineken Group
  • Nathalie Jaubert, BNP Paribas 
  • Renaud Bettin, Sweep
  • Paul Stevers, Climate Solutions Advancement Network
  • Esther Finidori, Schneider Electric
  • Pr. David Rolnick, Climate Change AI

Organisers: Schneider Electric, Engie, ClimateSAN & Solar Impulse Foundation

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