The territories of a COP in the Amazon city of Belém 

To be cited as: Hughes, Hannah, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue and Verônica Korber Gonçalves. 2026. “The territories of a COP in the Amazon city of Belém.” CAMAMAZON. Available at: https://camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2026/03/05/the-territories-of-a-cop-in-the-amazon-city-of-belem/ (accessed XX/XX/XXXX). One of the conversations that we have been having in our CAMAMAZON project team, is can we think the COP as territory, and READ MORE

COP30 in the Heart of Belém 

To be cited as: Hughes, Hannah. 2026. “COP30 in the Heart of Belém” CAMAMAZON. Available at: https://camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2025/11/10/cop30-in-the-heart-of-belem/ (accessed xx/xx/xxxx) I arrived in Belém very early Thursday morning. I had wanted to arrive before the negotiations got underway to see if I could catch the opening of this event from the city’s perspective.   The decision to host COP30 in the Amazon, announced by Brazil’s President READ MORE

Another view of Bonn: The intersection between race and gender from the venue to the streets  

To be cited as: Hughes, Hannah. 2025. “Another view of Bonn: The intersection between race and gender from the venue to the streets” CAMAMAZON. https://camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2025/09/19/another-view-of-bonn-the-intersection-between-race-and-gender-from-the-venue-to-the-streets/ (accessed xx/xx/xxxx) When you observe negotiations, as a researcher, the observations don’t start and stop on entering and leaving the venue. Perhaps, in trying to understand the world around us, READ MORE

The art of (not) negotiating through negotiation: The turbulent waters of implementing the Paris Agreement from the Rhine to the Guamá

To be cited as: Vecchione-Gonçalves, Marcela. 2025. “The art of (not) negotiating through negotiation: The turbulent waters of implementing the Paris Agreement from Rhine to the Guamá” CAMAMAZON. https://camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2025/07/29/the-art-of-not-negotiating-through-negotiation-the-turbulent-waters-of-implementing-the-paris-agreement-from-the-rhine-to-the-guama/ (accessed xx/xx/xxxx) Authored by Marcela Vecchione-Gonçalves (@marcelavecchione; email: marcela.vecchione@gmail.com) I have been following the Climate Conferences, and their subsidiaries, since 2009 in Copenhagen. But I haven’t READ MORE

The CAMAMAZON team reflects on their experiences at the SB62 in Bonn

To be cited as: Hughes, Hannah; Korber Gonçalves, Verônica; Yumie Aoki Inoue, Cristina; and Menezes Assef, Matthaeus. 2025. “The CAMAMAZON team reflects on their experiences at the SB62 in Bonn” CAMAMAZON. https://camamazon.aber.ac.uk/2025/07/17/the-camamazon-team-reflects-on-their-experiences-at-the-sb62-in-bonn/ (accessed xx/xx/xxxx) In June, most of the CAMAMAZON project team travelled to Bonn for the 62nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies to the READ MORE

Welcome to CAMAMAZON website and blog!

This is the home of CAMAMAZON, a 2-year British Academy funded ODA interdisciplinary research project. In this project, we are following Brazil’s presidency of COP30 in the host city of Belém. This event marks an important anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which began in Rio in Brazil in 1992. It is the first READ MORE