November 10 through 21, 2025
Ongoing | Online
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) took place in Belem, Brazil from November 10 through 21, 2025. Held annually, the conference convenes delegates from around the world to negotiate goals for combating climate change and limit Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. COP30 aims to focus on action and implementation and address the urgent, interconnected global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. COP30 is anticipated to be a milestone for advancing nature-based solutions, especially around the Amazon.
We cannot tackle the climate crisis without plants. They are essential to adaptation, mitigation, and resilience—they strengthen food systems, protect health, restore ecosystems, and help communities prepare for climate extremes. NYBG attended COP30 to ensure nature-based solutions include plants—and to share how botanical gardens, through cutting-edge science, inclusive education, and global partnerships, are driving climate and biodiversity solutions.
Follow along for updates from NYBG about COP30 and learn more about how NYBG Science looks to plants for the answers in advancing real-world solutions around plants for climate resilience, food security, AI-driven innovation, and urban conservation.
NYBG attended COP30 to ensure nature-based solutions include plants, and to share how botanical gardens—through cutting-edge science, inclusive education, and global partnerships—are driving climate and biodiversity solutions.
Join NYBG during COP30 and hear from our expert scientists during the conference.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025; 15:00–15:45
World Green Economy Organization Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30
Join us for a discussion exploring how botanical gardens can drive nature-based, biodiversity-driven pathways for climate action, food security, and community resilience.
Speakers:
Co-organized by the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and the Alliance of Biodiversity International and CIAT
Hear from Eric Sanderson, Vice President of Urban Conservation, NYBG, Alexandre Antonelli, Executive Director of Science, Kew Gardens, and Moderator Emma Grover, Project Manager, Nurturing Nature Initiative, NYBG discuss how plant-based approaches to adapt to and to mitigate climate change can be scaled through the unique capacities of botanical gardens, spanning from in-depth knowledge of plant taxonomy and genetics to their role as key community institutions.
Co-organized by the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
Three cross-cutting initiatives at NYBG, including Plants for Climate Resilience, Food Plants as a Global Conservation Priority, and AI-Driven Innovation in Biodiversity Science, are crucial to utilizing plants to counter climate change. Learn more about each project.
Location Online
Location Online