Museum for the United Nations – UN Live
Through conversations in 25+ countries, Global We and Cortico set out to widen the climate narrative by centering real, lived experience alongside policy and data.
Listen to a conversation highlight from Nairobi, Kenya.
The Global We portal gathers thousands of real voices and themes from around the world, offering a tool for leaders, media, and communities to ground climate work in lived experience.
Read on to learn more about how Cortico worked with the Museum for the United Nations.
Global We, an initiative from the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live, set out to build a living record of how people around the world actually experience climate change, and what they believe needs to happen next. Working with Cortico, they created spaces for global, small-group conversations that could surface shared themes and real, community-rooted solutions.
Challenge: Addressing the Climate Conversation Gap
With climate conversations often dominated by data, policy, and elites, Global We saw a missing layer: everyday people’s lived experience of climate change, especially from communities most affected. Going beyond anecdotes, they wanted those voices to be heard at global scale as a collective source of insight.
Solution: Conversations to Capture Underheard Voices
Cortico partnered with Global We to tackle this challenge. Leveraging Cortico’s approach for amplifying underheard voices, we invited hundreds of people to join recorded small-group conversations in “portals” around the world. Portals are repurposed shipping containers equipped with audio visual technology and recording capabilities that put people in full body, face-to-face conversations with others from around the globe.
These conversations enabled deep connection and captured authentic experiences and insights on climate change. The goal was not only this connection, but also a comparable body of dialogue across countries that facilitators could analyze together.
Results: Global Voices in Chorus
Facilitators and local partners held more than 190 recorded conversations across 25+ countries, then worked together to curate nearly 3,000 searchable voice highlights into a public conversation archive. Six cross-cutting themes emerged, capturing how climate change shows up in people’s lives and what an empathetic, equitable response could look like.
The portal makes it possible for policymakers, journalists, organizers, and the public to listen across geography and culture, and to draw on grounded, global insights when shaping climate decisions and stories. Highlights from the project were shared at COP28 to bring these community voices into the room.
Explore the Global We conversation portal to hear climate stories and insights from communities around the world.
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