25 September 2025 | São Paulo, Brazil

At the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Switzerland will present the Planetary Embassy, a pavilion created by Swissnex in Brazil with the support of Presence Switzerland, as part of the Road to Belém program of the Embassy of Switzerland in Brazil.

Located in the zoobotanical park of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, the pavilion will bring together international delegates, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists, and representatives of indigenous and local communities. It will explore the theme of planetary diplomacy, Swissnex’s invitation to imagine a new diplomacy that reaches across species, time scales, and natural forces.

“Switzerland has long been trusted as a mediator of peace and dialogue,” says Benjamin Bollmann, CEO of Swissnex in Brazil. “With the Planetary Embassy, the question is how to carry that tradition into the more-than-human world. It’s the idea of creating a neutral space where human and nonhuman interests alike can be part of negotiating planetary balance.”

Amazonian Knowledge Meets Global Climate Solutions

The pavilion will bring together Amazonian ancestral wisdom with global, science-based climate action. Indigenous knowledge and cosmologies will enter into dialogue with Swiss innovations in sustainability and diplomacy, including contributions from the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), the University of Geneva, the Wyss Academy for Nature, and Frontiers. Swiss researchers and startups from nexBio Amazônia, a bioeconomy initiative powered by Swissnex in Brazil, the Leading House Latin America (University of St.Gallen), and the Brazilian National Council for State Funding Agencies (CONFAP), will also be featured.

At the heart of the Planetary Embassy, an exhibition will showcase visions for planetary diplomacy submitted by young artists, students, and innovators from across Switzerland, Brazil, and the global Swissnex network. These works were gathered through the global open call Imagining Planetary Diplomacy, led by Swissnex in Boston and New York to mark Swissnex’s 25th anniversary.

An Immersive Experience at COP30

Located within the grounds of the Goeldi Museum, named after 19th-century Swiss naturalist Emílio Goeldi, the Planetary Embassy will offer an immersive space among the trees, plants, and animals of the Amazon. The setting is intended to encourage deceleration, listening, and thoughtful conversations about our coexistence with other species and deep embeddedness in the Earth system.

As Switzerland’s main pavilion at COP30, the Planetary Embassy will also provide an inspiring venue for official Swiss receptions and events within the Road to Belém program, in collaboration with Swiss and Brazilian partners such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), UBS, Instituto Ekos, Terre des Hommes, and others. Collectively, they will underscore Switzerland’s engagement in the Amazon region and its commitment to working with Brazil to address some of the planet’s most urgent challenges.