As world leaders prepare to meet for climate talks at COP30 in Brazil, there is a growing demand for wider participation and more inclusive formats for global discussion. The importance of engaging diverse communities of expertise - from Indigenous frontline defenders and traditional ecological knowledge holders, to diverse disciplines of academic research and fields of creative practice - highlights the urgent need for new models of participation which can multiply global engagement in climate action. The COP30 presidency has called for a global “mutirão” - drawing on a Brazilian concept of collective participation and collaborative effort - inviting organisations around the world to propose events and activities that engage local communities and mobilise diverse kinds of knowledge for strategic climate action. 

In response to this call we created MultiCOP - an international online conference that takes place in parallel with COP30, inviting diverse communities of expertise to join a global mutirão for knowledge. By inviting contributions from indigenous communities and traditional knowledge holders, academic researchers, NGOs and community action groups, creative practitioners, technological innovators and startups, as well as museums and cultural institutions, we aim to create an inclusive space for dialogue across multiple kinds of climate knowledge. In a context defined by the systematic elimination of diversity - including biodiversity, cultural diversity, technodiversity and ontological diversity - we must urgently create space for knowledge diversity to ensure that we cultivate diverse planetary futures.