Central da COP, an Observatório do Clima (OC) project that mixes climate news with soccer language, will make its debut at the Mangueirão stadium in Belém, Pará, next Wednesday (5), during the first match between Paysandu and Remo in the final of the Parazão state championship. The action results from a partnership between Observatório do Clima and the Pará Football Federation.
At the entrance to the Mangueirão, fans will pass by stands produced in each team’s color, where there will be explanatory materials and experts on duty, ready to talk about global warming. On the stadium’s big screens, a video produced by the Temple agency will be shown, with narration by Guilherme Guerreiro, an icon of sports announcing in Pará, explaining how the UN Conference of the Parties, scheduled for November in Belém, works. There will also be a distribution of Central da COP sticker albums and the entry onto the field of children wearing uniforms with Central’s logos and the Pará Football Federation.
O evento conta com apoio de organizações que integram o Observatório do Clima, como Ipam, ISA, IEB, Basa e Engajamundo, e parcerias com a Secretaria de Cultura do Pará e da Fundação Cultural do estado
The action crowns Observatório do Clima’s project to take the debate on climate change to major popular events, as Joana Amaral, OC’s engagement coordinator, explains: “The effects of climate change affect everyone, regardless of whether they’re in the countryside or the city, whether it’s heat, drought, excess rain or lack of it. So there’s nothing better than using a stage that Brazilians love to talk about this issue: a soccer stadium.”
The partnership is also celebrated by Ricardo Gluck Paul, president of the FPF: “Football, Brazil’s greatest passion, has been taking on more and more social responsibility. That’s why we’re taking advantage of the derby between Paysandu and Remo, one of the most traditional in the country, to invite the public to participate more actively in the preparations for the Belém climate conference. After all, soccer also depends on the stability of the climate.”
The event has the support of organizations that are part of Observatório do Clima, such as Imazon, IPAM, ISA, IEB and Engajamundo. The COP video will be shown again at the stadium during the second leg of the final, scheduled for next Sunday, May 11, also at the Mangueirão.
” Central da COP uses the language of soccer, which is so familiar to Brazilians, to simplify a technical subject, which is climate change. It’s a joy for us to talk about this subject in a stadium, to thousands of people, in the very city that will host COP30,” says journalist Roberto Kaz, editor of Central da COP. “A partnership like this, with the Pará Football Federation, is a milestone for climate education.”
