By Dr. Jan Freihardt: COP30 in Belém has been widely judged by its official outcomes—by the words negotiated, the brackets removed, the pledges made or postponed. But what if we looked beyond the final communiqué? Drawing on an “iceberg model” from conflict transformation, this post explores not only the content of the negotiations, but also their context and conduct: the physical spaces that shape conversations and the unspoken ways power is performed.
By Lars Schöbitz: At Global Health Engineering, we approach the use of AI as a shared learning journey. This post shares how a Claude Code powered hackathon and our ongoing "AI Playgrounds" are helping us build confidence and capacity in tools that can sometimes make people feel left behind.