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What I am seeing now feels different. Not in its scale — the sector has faced serious moments before — but in its texture. The pressure is coming from multiple directions at once and targeting something more fundamental than funding or political will. It is targeting the language itself.
The terms that the rights-based sector spent decades building into the shared vocabulary of accountability are being actively removed from the frameworks that gave them force.
I came to Belém with a particular kind of watchfulness. After years of attending COPs and designing communications strategies for the most consequential policy moments of the last decade, I know how easy it is for these gatherings to produce language that feels significant and deliver outcomes that are not.
And yet. Belém surprised me.
