UN COP30 Global Ethical Stocktake Roundtable - West Coast Australia

To support the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) consultations on climate change in Belem, Brazil, the Australian Baha'i Community is hosting a series of roundtables to provide input in the Global Ethical Stocktake (GES). The GES seeks to complement technical assessments at COP30 with a deep and collective ethical inquiry into the climate crisis, and the moral imperatives of our time.

It aims to bring together diverse, intergenerational participants to create a space for collective reflection on the gravity and challenges of the climate crisis, respecting geographic, gender, income, age, ethnic, and racial diversity — a call for society to meaningfully contribute to building a just and humane response to one of the decisive challenges of our era.

These roundtables will be a space for listening, sharing, and collective reflection on ethics, behaviour, and the climate crisis.

Participants will be invited to reflect on questions such as:

• What traditions, histories, or practices (cultural, spiritual) from our communities teach us to live in greater harmony with nature?

• To guarantee diversity in the collective, how can we mobilize more people, leaders, corporations, companies, and nations to support just and ethical changes in combating the climate crisis? What ideas and values could inspire such mobilization?

The outcomes from these local and national discussions will be synthesised and contributed to the GES leadership circle at COP30. This circle is designed to act as a driver for consultation, mobilisation, and coordination on strategic topics and is a central element of COP30.