Túlio Andrade, COP30’s Chief Strategy and Alignment Officer, sees the Global Mutirão, Brazil's organizing principle for COP30, as more than a slogan. In this short video, he sets out why it exemplifies a different mode of governance: decentralised, distributed, and networked, rather than dependent on the top-down global consensus that have shaped 30 years of climate negotiations.

For Andrai, the Global Citizens' Assembly offers a working example of what that shift could look like. Rather than waiting for consensus before acting, citizens' assemblies build consensus. They bring communities together first, then use the deliberation process to uncover a shared purpose and agree action.