With “The Spiritual Entities of the Kuikuro People”, Uryssé Kuikuro and Alekin Pazini want the world to know and respect another way of connection with nature. The project presents the vision of the Kuikuro People and the Spirits that surround them.

“Mapping Climate-Vulnerable Populations in Pará” by Ligia Anjos transforms public data about Pará, a state in the North of Brazil, into narrative maps, presenting a planetary diplomacy tool that gives voice to forests and vulnerable populations. Ligia Anjos decided to submit this project to share the powerful findings of this analysis and to demonstrate how data visualization can inspire more effective and targeted climate action, expanding the reach of fundamental academic research.

“Imagining the Futures of Rights of Nature” by Lydia Dai, Beniamin Strzelecki, Genaro Matías Godoy González, Iqra Bano, and Pierre Mikhiel explores how embedding the Rights of Nature into international law and diplomacy could transform governance systems. Through a foresight process with over 30 experts and advocates, they co-created narratives that envision pathways from today’s property-based paradigm toward futures where ecosystems are recognized as legal and political subjects. The group decided to submit this project because it bridges legal innovation, foresight, and advocacy, and aims to offer an evolving platform to inspire and inform concrete action in global diplomacy.

"The Earth Speaks Back" by Francis Burger is a participatory diplomatic encounter that invites more-than-human beings, like trees, rivers, fungi, and ancestral stones, into political space through playful, ritual dialogue. Rather than teaching or debating, it creates conditions to feel presence and attune to voices, perceptions, and imaginations often silenced or rendered esoteric in dominant epistemic systems. Inspired by Joanna Macy and decolonial thought, the project challenges colonial and neurotypical norms of diplomacy by asking: What becomes possible when we truly listen and wonder beyond the human?

“I am Earth” by Abhinay "Renny" Thummaluru imagines a world of planetary diplomacy – one where we are aligned with nature, not in competition with it. It calls on us to move from domination to dialogue, from extraction to empathy. Imagine a time when we deeply listen to the Earth, to nature, to the silent signals already all around us? In the face of the climate crisis and global unrest, Abhinay Renny worked on this project to reflect our place, not at the top, but within the web of life. To stop resisting the flow of the Earth and begin moving in alignment with it.

“Long Landscapes – Half-Earth Chimeras” by Joshua Guiness envisions possible and desirable futures for our planet, weaving together diverse perspectives to imagine new, evolving ways of thinking about our shared world.

"Speaking with the Earth: Ancestral Diplomacies for a Shared Future " by Andreia de Sousa Costa imagines a world where rivers, trees, and all of nature could speak at the United Nations and participate in the decisions that shape our planet. Andreia, an Indigenous woman from the Kumaruara People of the Lower Tapajós region in Santarém, Pará, explores this vision through her perspective as a Social Communication – Medialogy undergraduate at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP).

"Community-led Biomonitoring to Empower Citizens in Global Decision-Making" by Simona Weber (The Marine AI Consortium (MAC)) aims to empower coastal communities to own, monitor, and benefit from their marine resources through accessible biomonitoring technology and transparent data platforms. By democratizing access to cutting-edge environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis tools, MAC enables local communities such as fishers, indigenous groups, and youth to become scientific stewards of their own waters – generating valuable biodiversity data they control and can leverage for sustainable livelihoods, conservation funding, and policy advocacy. Our citizen science movement fosters both technical knowledge and understanding of human-ocean interconnections – providing the skills to make informed decisions and sustainably manage marine ecosystems.

"Nature’s Avatars" by Danilo Olivaz is an open-ended inquiry at the intersection of technology, art, and the different ways of being that exist in our world. It attempts to develop hybrid manifestations that can serve as an expression medium for beyond-human entities, understanding their sentience and rights to existence in our shared world.