As the effects of the climate crisis intensify across territories, traditional financing mechanisms fail to guarantee fair, agile, and effective resources for the populations that most protect biomes. The obstacles are numerous: overly bureaucratic financing, out of touch with local realities, requiring formal structures and complex reporting—often in foreign languages.
To transform this scenario, Casa Sul Global was born — a bold collective platform created by and for the Global South, with the aim of reconfiguring resource flows and power dynamics in the field of climate and environmental philanthropy.
The initiative is the result of the articulation between Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur and Comuá Network, bringing together community and thematic funds from different countries in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The platform emerges at a critical time: in 2024, the world exceeded the 1,5°C warming limit for the first time, triggering extreme weather events on every continent.
The House's proposal is to strengthen the role of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, traditional communities, and family farmers, recognizing their central role in environmental conservation and in building effective solutions to the climate emergency.
"Our goal is to place solutions from the South—and for the South—at the center of global debates on financing for climate, nature, and people," says Juliana Tinoco, executive coordinator of Alianza Fondos del Sur and project driver.
For Cristiane Azevedo, managing director of the Institute for Society, Population and Nature (ISPN), the platform represents the consolidation of years of strategic collaboration between community funds from the Global South. ISPN is part of the Alianza and Rede Comuá and maintains a fund that strengthens ecosocial initiatives led by Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, family farmers, and peri-urban communities, the Ecos Fund.
"The participation of ISPN and Fundo Ecos in Casa Sul Global strengthens the vision of philanthropy committed to socio-environmental and climate justice, with the leadership of local peoples and communities. It is also an opportunity to exchange experiences, strengthen alliances, and build collective strategies that go beyond COP30, strengthening an ongoing movement for socio-environmental justice," says Cristiane.
The House is also a way to demonstrate that there are effective mechanisms in the Global South—such as the Ecos Fund itself and other independent funds—that need to expand access to resources for local communities to implement their own solutions.
"Mechanisms like socio-environmental justice funds are examples of pathways toward fairer climate and biodiversity financing that align with community struggles. At COP30, the debate on financing will be central, and these philanthropic actors from the Global South have much to contribute," says Jonathas Azevedo, executive director of Rede Comuá.
Coordinator of the Ecos Fund and the ISPN Community Initiatives Program, Rodrigo Noleto emphasizes that networking is essential for strengthening organizations:
"Joining initiatives like Casa Sul Global is essential to broaden the debate and allow the voices of different organizations to reach funders and public policy managers in a coordinated manner."
Official release
Casa Sul Global will be presented to the public in an online event on July 30, 2025. Its first physical edition will take place during COP30 in Belém, Pará, in partnership with the Brazilian Amazon Community Fund Network and the #ShiftThePower movement. The in-person program will be held at Canto Coworking, a historic and central space in the capital of Pará, with seven days of activities and exchanges.
📅 Virtual Launch Event
🗓️ Date: July 30, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:30–12:00 (UTC-3)
🌐 Format: Online, with simultaneous interpretation in Portuguese, Spanish and English
Speakers:
- Artemisa Castro Félix – Fondo Acción Solidaria (FASOL)
- Cristi Marie C. Nozawa – Samdhana Institute
- Josimara Baré – Rutî Indigenous Fund / Network of Community Funds of the Brazilian Amazon
- Joshua Amponsem – Youth Climate Justice Fund
- Larissa Correia de Amorim – Casa Fluminense / Territorial Alliance of the Comuá Network
- Lisa Chamberlain – Environmental Justice Fund
- Maria Amália Souza – Socio-Environmental House Fund
Opening and Mediation: Suleiman Abdullahi, Founder of Common Reserve and representative of the #ShitThePower movement
Introducing The Global South House:
- Juliana Tinoco – Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur
- Jonathas Azevedo – Comuá Network