October 28-29, 2025
Auditorium, Institute of Applied Social Sciences
Belém (Pará), Brazil
Lessons for High Quality and Sustainable Development of our Planet and the Amazon Region
A pre-conference event for COP30, Belem
The Postgraduate Program in Economics(PPGE) of the Federal University of Pará is collaborating with a group of renowned professors and researchers from abroad and Brazil so as to discuss the new forms and directions that economic and social well-being and its academic orientation will take, with a view to global warming and ongoing climate change. In this context, the PPGE brings together international and national experts in a dialogue event to discuss the various global trends that will influence the economic and social performance of our world, including developing countries and the Amazon area.
This climate change initiative started in February, 2025, following an Estafette Model of scientific meetings in different places in the world, coordinated by The Regional Science Academy (TRSA) and the Federal University of Pará in Belem, Brazil.
This international dialogue on THE WEALTH OF NATIONS AND THE WELLBEING OF PLACES is the closing part of this global initiative which unfolded in several events and written outputs.The intention is to hand over the manifesto with conclusions and recommendations to the authorities of COP30 to be held in Belém in the second part of November, 2025
Honorary speakers:
Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate 2008, CUNY, New York
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Peter Nijkamp, University College Wroclaw (WSKZ), Wroclaw- Erasmus University, Rotterdam – SPPM, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Karima Kourtit, Open University. Heerlen – University College Wroclaw (WSKZ), Wroclaw – Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Carlos Moreno, IAE Paris-Sorbonne, Paris – UN-Habitat
Carlos Roberto Azzoni, FEA-USP, São Paulo
