WFCN co-host first 'self-organized' Global Ethical Stocktake ahead of COP30

The first Self-Organized Dialogue of the Global Ethical Stocktake was hosted on 27 June 2025 during London Climate Action Week by: Women, Faith, And Climate Network; Project Dandelion; and by St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace. It gathered approximately 40 participants, including political, Indigenous, and faith leaders, activists, and civil society representatives. Also in attendance from the Brazilian COP30 team were: Marina Silva, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change; Ana Toni, COP30 CEO; and Marcele Oliveira, the conference’s Youth Champion.

Through collective reflections participants shared their different perspectives on the urgency of tackling the causes and impacts of the climate and nature crisis. You can read the full report from the event here:

After listening to the outputs from all participants, including five women linked to the Women, Faith, and Climate Network, Marina Silva stressed the need to place ethics at the heart of the climate debate: “As I watched the presentations, I kept thinking: how good it would be if our negotiators could see what has been presented here: words like love, solidarity, commitments, and responsibility for what is decided,” she said. “May this Ethical Review and all of us be a kind of prayer for the world to commit to protecting life and the conditions in which it was created.”

The outcomes from the Global Ethical Stocktake visualised by a graphic recorder

For Ana Toni, the “Global Ethical Balance is the soul of COP30, and we need to show everyone that it's here”. “We're at a stage where everyone acts logically and tactically, and we don't allow ourselves to feel,” she said. "As negotiators, politicians, mothers, human beings, we need to change. I hope COP30 achieves a lot in the negotiations— we have to. But above all, if we can touch people and bring to them the feeling we have experienced here, I think we will mobilize billions of people. If not now, then very soon."

"I hope that the six formal dialogues—one on each continent—will generate hundreds of other self-organized dialogues to bring a wave of public opinion to COP30," said Mary Robinson. "We are grateful for Marina Silva’s leadership in proposing this Global Ethical Stocktake initiative, and I encourage everyone to carry this work forward, gathering communities from all walks of life and adding their voices to this vital process."

The COP30 team have encouraged others to now pick up the baton. If you would like to run your own Global Ethical Stocktake in your community, Project Dandelion, in collaboration with the COP30 team, has created a open-source guide.

Global Ethical Stocktake open-source toolkit