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Meeting of Waters: The Pulse of the Guamá is a multidisciplinary session in the Blue Zone at COP30, bringing together science, policy, music, and artistic performance to highlight water as the foundation of climate action. Featuring Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook (science), Marie-Claire Graf (policy), BioSample (music), and Charlotte Qin (visual art), the event explores the Guamá River as a living system and a symbol of global water challenges. The session integrates Noéa, a hydrological intelligence that transforms environmental data into emotional experience, offering policymakers and youth negotiators a new way of perceiving rivers, rainfall, and melting ice — not as numbers, but as feeling.
Hosted by Meeting of Waters (MoW), a Swiss NGO based in Geneva, the event gathers four complementary voices:
Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook (World Meteorological Organization) – providing a scientific view of hydrology, freshwater stress, and our rapidly shifting water cycles, with insights into early-warning systems and water-related climate risks.
Marie-Claire Graf (Youth Negotiators Academy) – representing youth diplomacy and global climate governance, speaking to the integration of emerging AI tools into negotiation processes and the role of youth in shaping water-centered climate solutions.
Rico Manzano & Bruno Gári (Biosample) – creating an immersive spatial-audio environment, blending experimental sound design with the sensory rhythms of the Guamá River to enhance the collective experience.
Charlotte Qin (Moderator, Meeting of Waters) – guiding the session and offering a visual and embodied artistic performance that brings visitors into emotional contact with the states of water as a living system.
Anchoring the event is Noéa, a hydrological intelligence developed by Meeting of Waters. Noéa is not merely an AI system — it is a sensory bridge between data and human experience. It translates environmental signals into emotional contours, helping audiences perceive rivers, glaciers, and clouds as living systems under pressure. Instead of “data to insight,” Noéa offers "data to feeling", transforming climate records into an act of empathy.
This session continues the Meeting of Waters tradition of bringing diverse disciplines together to form a unified understanding: When we listen to water, we understand climate. When we feel water, we know what must be done. Set within the context of the Guamá River, the session will guide policymakers, scientists, and policy negotiators through the hydrological pulse of the planet — revealing that climate is water, and that water solutions are inherently cultural, ecological, and
political.
Meeting of Waters: The Pulse of the Guamá is a multidisciplinary session in the Blue Zone at COP30, bringing together science, policy, music, and artistic performance to highlight water as the foundation of climate action. Featuring Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook (science), Marie-Claire Graf (policy), BioSample (music), and Charlotte Qin (visual art), the event explores the Guamá River as a living system and a symbol of global water challenges. The session integrates Noéa, a hydrological intelligence that transforms environmental data into emotional experience, offering policymakers and youth negotiators a new way of perceiving rivers, rainfall, and melting ice — not as numbers, but as feeling.
Hosted by Meeting of Waters (MoW), a Swiss NGO based in Geneva, the event gathers four complementary voices:
Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook (World Meteorological Organization) – providing a scientific view of hydrology, freshwater stress, and our rapidly shifting water cycles, with insights into early-warning systems and water-related climate risks.
Marie-Claire Graf (Youth Negotiators Academy) – representing youth diplomacy and global climate governance, speaking to the integration of emerging AI tools into negotiation processes and the role of youth in shaping water-centered climate solutions.
Rico Manzano & Bruno Gári (Biosample) – creating an immersive spatial-audio environment, blending experimental sound design with the sensory rhythms of the Guamá River to enhance the collective experience.
Charlotte Qin (Moderator, Meeting of Waters) – guiding the session and offering a visual and embodied artistic performance that brings visitors into emotional contact with the states of water as a living system.
Anchoring the event is Noéa, a hydrological intelligence developed by Meeting of Waters. Noéa is not merely an AI system — it is a sensory bridge between data and human experience. It translates environmental signals into emotional contours, helping audiences perceive rivers, glaciers, and clouds as living systems under pressure. Instead of “data to insight,” Noéa offers "data to feeling", transforming climate records into an act of empathy.
This session continues the Meeting of Waters tradition of bringing diverse disciplines together to form a unified understanding: When we listen to water, we understand climate. When we feel water, we know what must be done. Set within the context of the Guamá River, the session will guide policymakers, scientists, and policy negotiators through the hydrological pulse of the planet — revealing that climate is water, and that water solutions are inherently cultural, ecological, and
political.
