COP30 Brazil

The 30th “Conference of the Parties” to the UN Climate Change Framework took place in Belém, Brazil, November 10-21 2025, with more than 50,000 delegates converging on the city to negotiate and update the world’s coordinated response to human-caused global warming.

Event Rap was on site for nine days of the two-week event, with three artists sporting delegate badges provided by two different civil society organizations, with the express mandate of amplifying and elevating the most important messages and events at the conference, creating spontaneous moments of joy, celebration, and though-provocation with original rap songs created entirely in real time.

Over the course of nine days, Event Rap artists Baba Brinkman, Dex McBean, and Jam Young performed 30 different live, event-based hip-hop sets, including media activations, after parties, and ‘rap up’ recaps at pavilions and side events, each performance consisting of a freestyle or original ‘rap up’ written in less than 90 minutes and performed with no rehearsal.

The result is a series of dynamic rap videos that capture the on-the-floor feeling of COP30 and the key debates, issues, and calls-to-action that fueled the multilateral negotiations and activations at the conference, with 30 raps produced by 3 rappers over 9 days at 17 venues.

Check out the LinkedIn posts below for comments and impressions, the Peace and Health IG Post, and the news stories published by the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.

LinkedIn Posts: World Climate Summit  •  Rainforest Credits  •  Just Facts  •  Wood for the Leaves  •  Sub-National Governments Connect