Events & Engagement

What is the Rights & Nature Hub?

The Rights and Nature Hub at London Climate Action Week is a collaboration between Synchronicity Earth, Tenure Facility, Forests, People, Climate and Jacobs Futura Foundation. This week in June is a key moment in the global climate calendar, a ‘locally rooted and globally connected’ opportunity for communities, funders, policymakers, and 75,000 other stakeholders across 750 events to come together to amplify action on climate.

Over four days of programming, the Rights and Nature Hub will elevate and connect community-led and Indigenous-led conservation, in conversation with the funders, foundations, and institutions that shape how climate and environmental resources move.

The Hub will host meetings, working sessions, and panels to catalyse action and increase funding to address deforestation, ecosystem collapse, and climate change, building momentum at a time of both urgency and opportunity. More than that, the Hub will offer a shared place to land, restore energy, share practice, and build the relationships that make sustained action possible.

Rights, nature, climate

As funders, we are united by the belief that rights, nature, and climate belong in the same conversation, and that who is present in that conversation matters as much as what is said. Indigenous peoples, local communities, and youth and grassroots leaders are at the forefront of protecting tropical forests, freshwater ecosystems, oceans, and climate-resilient landscapes for all life on Earth.  These places are not just carbon sinks: they are places of memory, culture, and community. Biodiversity, territorial governance, and rights-based approaches are foundational to climate action.

No climate response is credible without centring the rights of communities and the integrity of nature, not as additions to the agenda, but as its foundation. Discussions and ‘business as usual’ are not enough.  The Rights and Nature Hub aims to harness the knowledge, learning, and practice shared during the week to catalyse tangible actions and strategies that meet the urgency of the moment, removing barriers to greater funding and centring rights and nature in climate solutions.

What’s happening at the Rights & Nature Hub?

Offering a bridge between the funding community and biodiversity and climate movements, the Rights & Nature Hub combines open discussions, targeted roundtables and convenings between various stakeholders, with space and opportunities for attendees to hold informal meetings, build new relationships, and relax and unwind.

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Conversations that matter

Our ambition to convene across sectors – and where conservation, philanthropy, and culture meet – is driven by the knowledge that connecting the right people can foster real change, and the ‘in-between’ conversations are often the most important ones.

As well as increasing effective conservation funding, our events seek to shift how funders think and act, and amplify the voices of our partners and the overlooked regions, ecosystems, and species they are working to protect.

We will continue to explore curating gatherings which we hope reach people in ways that facts and data alone cannot, and leave our guests remembering meetings that had a little synchronicity to them.

Synchronicity Earth Affiliate Julie Gagoe, speaking at a Congo Basin Forest Partnerships Conference in Kinshasa, 2024. Image © Merline Touko Tchoko

Synchronicity Earth partner Letters to the Earth collaborated on a creative hike with SATI Sustainable Alpine Tourism Initiative © Olly Bowman

A world full of stories

We are born into a world full of stories. Stories are what guide us, inspire us, bring ideas, joy and resolution. The science of biodiversity loss and climate breakdown is clear, but stories are the bridge that connects knowledge with empathy, and leads to action. There are many inspiring stories and brilliant storytellers out there: passionate, dedicated and wise voices that need to be heard.

To create more impactful stories that transform awareness into action, we partner with filmmakers, artists, writers, thinkers and media organisations, convene discussions and develop projects and collaborations to re-establish nature at the heart of our cultural conversation, and show what can be done when we work together.