Representatives from the nations of the 'New 7 Wonders of Nature', including Vietnam, Argentina, Indonesia, Colombia and Cuba, present introductory videos showcasing their natural wonder to the world. The event will also feature a cultural performance by Vietnamese artists.

New 7 Wonders of Nature Celebration and Performance

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Representatives from the nations of the 'New 7 Wonders of Nature', including Vietnam, Argentina, Indonesia, Colombia and Cuba, present introductory videos showcasing their natural wonder to the world.

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With a striking design inspired by fossilised sand dunes, Jubilee Stage is an open-air festival stage. Located in Jubilee Park, it hosts performances and large concerts.

Jubilee Stage

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The fog-wreathed mountains and vibrant green rice paddies of Vietnam are places of deep tradition, housing ancient temples, centuries-old villages and a wealth of unique cultural history. The Vietnam Pavilion aims to reintroduce visitors to the nation’s rich heritage and highlight its investment potential. Explore traditional folk-art performances, bamboo flute concerts and delightful water-puppet shows, take a 3D digital tour of Vietnam’s vibrant tourism destinations and discover a bounty of culture and cuisine at the pavilion’s handicraft shop and restaurant.


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From the stunning subtropical Iguazú Falls in the north to icy Tierra del Fuego in the south, from giant sizzling steaks to tasty mate tea, from tango dances to gaucho cowboys, Argentina excels in natural wonders, food, culture and so much more. The Argentina Pavilion at Expo 2020 offers the full panorama of what this South American gem has to offer. Tour the pavilion’s immersive space to take in the vibrant sights and distinctive sounds of Argentina’s landscapes and culture, then be sure to taste a sample of authentic Argentine cuisine and produce.


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Most of us know Cuba for its colourful streets, stunning white sand beaches and rich culture of food, spirits and salsa dancing – but the island nation also boasts an outstanding education system that is driving a new wave of innovation.

At the Cuba Pavilion, you’ll journey through the vibrant streets of Havana, opening a variety of interactive doors to explore the country’s deep cultural heritage and promising future in biotechnology, renewable energy and more. Immerse yourself in Cuban music, learn about the history of tobacco or have a refreshment made with sugar from Cuban sugarcane.


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Indonesia is a nation of astonishing size and complexity: 270 million people spread across thousands of biodiverse islands. The Indonesia Pavilion at Expo 2020 presents a rich panorama of the nation’s natural and cultural treasures, from its traditional dances to the Java-grown coffee that perks up the entire world.

With an architectural design that brings time-honoured Indonesian weaving patterns into the present day, the pavilion offers a stylish bridge between history and modernity. Explore the country’s ancient tropical forests, tour a miniature version of contemporary Jakarta’s bustling night markets and much more.


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Traditional weaving designs are the centrepiece of the Indonesia Pavilion, which decorates its boxy main building in a variety of interlaced patterns. The three-level structure features a textured stone façade that wraps around the top of the building, adorned with alternating stretches of vertical ridges and raised, turned cubes. 

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From the streets of Bogotá and beyond, the entire world dances to the beats of Colombian music stars like Shakira and J Balvin. At the lively Colombia Pavilion, you’ll see — and most importantly, hear — how this infectious rhythm connects the nation to a thriving future of culture, innovation and urban growth.

The pavilion’s airy, free-ranging design represents Colombia itself, open and unbounded. In and around its four light-filled floors, an abundance of rhythmic attractions awaits: interactive instruments that let you play along with the music, a giant digital jukebox, holographic light shows and more.


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The Colombia pavilion’s airy, playful design looks more like a three-dimensional checkerboard than a traditional building. The structure trades typical walls for a rectangular grid of colossal white metal beams and transparent panels and floors, which meet at varying levels to create a four-story tower of platforms, open air plazas, and spacious rooms that peek out in unexpected directions. 


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Come and see the remarkable H2O Orchestra Concert. With instruments made of reused materials related to water, such as bottles, drums, hoses, pipes and funnels, to name a few, the H2O Orchestra seeks to raise awareness about water care in a novel way.

H2O Sounds of Water Orchestra

Come and see the remarkable H2O Orchestra Concert. With instruments made of reused materials related to water, such as bottles, drums, hoses, pipes and funnels, to name a few.

The Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre is a performance space hosting cultural performances and live music for seated crowds, located in Al Forsan Park. The venue’s design features a model of two Ghaf trees that intertwine above the centre of the stage. 

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One of this South American nation’s claims to fame is indeed huge: Paraguay is home to one of the world's largest dams, the Itaipú Hydroelectric Project. Itaipú’s generators supply nearly 80 per cent of Paraguay's electricity and 25 per cent of Brazil’s electricity needs. The Paraguay Pavilion details the strategic potential of water in the country when it comes to renewable energy as well as how Paraguay connects to the world via its rivers and food production. The pavilion also highlights its cultural riches, sustainable development, and fresh business opportunities.


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Paraguay: H2O Sounds of Water Orchestra

Ever played a game of Jenga and watched the whole structure collapse as your remove one peg? This applies to strong and unexplored links among all species, including our own, and the loss of even one of them impacting many in unexpected ways. 

Nature’s complex web make it possible for all of us to live on earth. As we encroach more on our natural habitats, we are actually growing more disconnected from nature. Because of human activity, close to one million animal and plant species could soon go extinct, leading to a chain of unpredictable consequences. These intrusions are affecting entire communities at an unprecedented scale and frequency, from wildfires to global pandemics and insect invasions. As we continue to weigh this dilemma, it is urgent we find solutions to protect our ecosystems and support our long-term ability to thrive not just alongside nature, but also as part of it. 


Finding Our Place in Nature's Complex Web

World Majlis | Nature’s Game of Jenga: Getting Creative to Fight Biodiversity Loss

Held in collaboration with Switzerland, this World Majlis examines the complexity and interconnectedness of our ecosystems and explores innovative strategies for sustaining biodiversity.

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Learnings and insights from the World Majlis conversations on Climate and Biodiversity

World Majlis: Insights from Climate & Biodiversity Week

Insight Report from Climate and Biodiversity Week

Nature's Game of Jenga - Documents

Inside Expo: Sustainability I: The World’s Oldest Innovator

Inside Expo: Sustainability II: Harnessing the Sun

The Powerhouse Pavilions

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At Expo 2020, sustainability is an urgent, attainable reality, and Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion is the proof. Both immersive exhibition space and exemplar of environmental self-sufficiency, Terra is a pioneering piece of architecture that pushes the limits of renewable design.

The pavilion’s 130-metre-wide solar canopy – so vast that you could park 10 city buses head-to-tail atop it – converts sunshine into electricity for the exhibits below. Artfully funnelled natural light and local plant species, together with technologies that can reduce water consumption by 75 per cent, show the way to a sustainable future.


Inspiring experiential journey through our shared sustainable future

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Terra is a super-sized marvel of forward-thinking design. The pavilion’s technology generates enough energy in a year to power a Nissan Leaf to drive halfway to Mars, while another system captures moisture from the air you breathe and turns it into drinkable water. Enter and take a fantastical journey through the wonders of nature, humanity’s challenges and the promise of our shared future. 


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Terra is home to five thought-provoking art installations from artists around the world, with each piece demonstrating a response to the issue of sustainability.

Terra Art Installations

Young visitors can explore a fantastical world inspired by Terra's very own octopus, Octavia.

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Climate and Biodiversity Week to spur the world into action to protect our planet

We stand at the brink of a crucial moment in time - a moment in which we must take decisive collective action to protect our planet, and the life it sustains, for future generations. It is an opportunity for us to take our place in history as the generation that stepped up to halt climate change, and transform human activity to operate within Earth's planetary boundaries. 

Expo 2020 Dubai's Climate & Biodiversity Week convenes government decision-makers, business leaders, youth advocates and our millions of visitors to address the greatest challenge of our time and generate solutions critical to the future of our civilisation and the health of our planet. 

What's your Promise to our Planet?

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How do we work together to better manage climate change and protect biodiversity? 

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Natural Resource and Biodiversity Conservation

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The magnificent, snow-capped Swiss Alps are renowned for their stunning natural majesty. Now, at Expo 2020, you can have your own breathtaking alpine experience – no climbing boots or ice axe required. The Switzerland Pavilion offers a simulated hike through the country’s mountains, traversing a dense sea of fog. After cresting the spectacular summit, you’ll reach an enchanting city of opportunities where you can explore Swiss innovation, take in traditional performances and sample mouth-watering Swiss chocolate.

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High-tech interactive exhibits exploring Swiss innovation

Rooftop terrace bar, and delicious Swiss chocolates at the Sprüngli Café

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The Switzerland Pavilion's bold, funnel-shaped mirror façade reflects the ground in front of the pavilion: a massive red carpet decorated with a white Swiss cross. The polygonal mirror panels converge at a  doorway in the lower left of the building, crafted from scaffolding and textiles inspired by Bedouin tents. 

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Dr. Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri is the Secretary General of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD), the largest environmental regulator in the Middle East, responsible for protecting and preserving natural 
resources and promoting sustainable development in the emirate. She holds a PhD degree in Wildlife Conservation and Protection from the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom, the first Emirati woman to earn the accolade. She has overseen the implementation of innovative programs on biodiversity, protected areas, threatened species and fisheries, including national and global species reintroduction programs.
Among her wide-ranging involvement in national and international committees and organisations working in environmental protection, Dr. Shaikha serves as the Chair of the IUCN UAE National Committee.

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Secretary General of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD)

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Sir Tim Smit is best known for his achievements in Cornwall. He ‘discovered’ and then restored ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ with John Nelson, which is now one of the UK’s best loved gardens having been named ‘Garden of the Year’ by BBC Countryfile Awards (Mar 2018). Tim’s book ‘The Lost Gardens of Heligan’ won Book of the Year in 1997.

Tim is Executive Vice-Chair and Co-founder of the multi award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Since its opening in 2001, over 22 million people have come to see a once sterile pit, turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavour. Tim is also Executive Co-Chair for Eden Project International which aims to have an Eden Project on every habited continent by 2025.

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Executive Chair and Founding Director, Eden Project, United Kingdom

Sir Tim Smit

Alexandre Roulin is a full professor of biology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and an evolutionary biologist interested in the evolution of life. His atypical career path began with an apprenticeship of civil engineering, followed by night school to get his “maturity degree” before attending university. His main scientific interests are the adaptive function of melanin-based coloration and negotiation processes taking place in animal societies using the barn owl as a model organism. His research is now expanding into other fields such as conservation psychology and social psychology.

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Head of the Owl for Peace Initiative, University of Lausanne

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Dr. Emiliano Esterci Ramalho is the Technical-Scientific Director of the Mamirauá Institute, coordinator of Project Providence, and leader of the Amazon Field Ecology and Conservation Research Group. He was a CAPES/Fulbright scholar at the University of Florida, where he earned a Ph.D. in the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. He is a founding member of the Alliance for the Conservation of the Jaguar and a member of the Instituto Pró-Carnívoros. He dedicated the last 16 years of his career to jaguar conservation in the Amazonian Flooded Forests with the aim of reducing the number of jaguars killed by hunters and improving the quality of people who live with the species. He is currently responsible for the largest and oldest jaguar research and conservation program in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Technical and Scientific Director, Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute, Brazil

Dr. Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, PhD

Up to September 2021, Gerrard Albert has been the Chair of Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, the post-settlement governance body for Whanganui Iwi (Iwi means a Māori tribal grouping) established at settlement of the tribe’s claim with the New Zealand Government in 2014. As a result of the claim settlement, New Zealand accorded legal personhood to the Whanganui River, flipping the existing paradigm by placing the River as the focus of human interaction in line with the indigenous value set of Whanganui Iwi, called Tupua Te Kawa, now shared with the nation. Since then, other nations have followed suit in an effort to protect the environment by according to values, or legal rights to natural resources.

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Chair of Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui, Whanganui Iwi, New Zealand

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Dr. Lalasia Bialic-Murphy is a Lead Scientist in the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich. Lalasia's research bridges population and community ecology, with an emphasis on comparative demography. A central theme of her work is identifying the environmental factors and phylogenetic relationships that shape population and community dynamics. Her work ranges from conducting manipulative field experiments to identify the drivers of elevated extinction risk, to leveraging global demographic datasets to characterize the impacts of global change on forest trees. Lalasia received her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and did a postdoc at the University of Tennessee and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis Center.

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Lead Scientist, Crowther Lab ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Lalasia Bialic-Murphy

Professor Dr. Thomas Crowther is a professor in the department of Global Ecosystem Ecology at ETH Zurich, where he founded Crowther Lab, an interdisciplinary group of scientists studying global ecosystems and generating knowledge to protect biodiversity and address climate change, deepening public and scientific understanding of the role of nature-based solutions. 

In 2021, Crowther Lab launched Restor, an independent not-for-profit open data platform that provides transparency and connectivity to conservation and restoration efforts across the globe. Crowther has been named a WEF Young Global Leader for his work and serves on the advisory council of WEF’s Trillion Trees initiative (1T.org). He also serves as co-chair of the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, along with Lucy Mulenkei.


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Ecologist, Professor and Founder of Crowther Lab, ETH Zurich 

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Explore a series of exciting conversations inspired by the theme of Expo 2020 Dubai. The World Majlis is a vibrant forum where diverse points of views are shared on important topics of our time. Each conversation brings together globally recognised thought-leaders who are invited for their exceptional contributions to the theme and their unique perspective on the topic. In each Majlis, students and members of the public are also welcome to contribute and engage.

World Majlis

Conversations on complex issues that bring together thought leaders, visionaries and changemakers.

World Expos have always been meeting places for people across cultures and geographies; an opportunity to come together and celebrate human ingenuity and forge meaningful human connections. As the first World Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, and with the participation of more than 192 countries, Expo 2020 Dubai looks to take this legacy even further. The Build Bridges track of Expo 2020 Dubai’s Programme for People and Planet features a tapestry of event series and experiences that celebrate our common humanity and the vital connections that can help us prosper together as a worldwide community.

Knowing One Another Better

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World Majlis Climate & Biodiversity

World Majlis Climate and Biodiversity Video

This event will bring together experts, citizens and policymakers to reimagine how we build, live and consume sustainably, how we lessen our impact on the environment, and how our health and wellbeing are enhanced by connecting with nature. The session will also look at the Expo 2020 site and the plans for District 2020 as a model of inclusive, connected and sustainable urban development that offers an insight into future trends in urban and rural development.

At Home with Nature: Inclusive, Connected and Sustainable Cities and Communities

People and Planet

A panel of experts will discuss sustainability as well as our impact on the environment and connection with nature.

Access to safe and affordable living conditions is a fundamental right. More than 70 per cent of the world’s population is forecasted to live in cities by 2050 and over one billion are already living in informal communities. As the demand for both cities and communities escalate, Expo will bring together experts, citizens, and governments to re-think the way in which habitats are designed and managed. From innovative transport, sustainable housing and green public spaces to renewable energy and circular economies, living spaces of the future will be imagined as resilient, sustainable and inclusive.  

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 How do we live and grow in harmony with our planet?

Insight Report from Urban & Rural Development Week

Creating a blueprint for future smart cities

Siemens is a global technology powerhouse that unites the digital and 
physical worlds to benefit society through its focus on smart infrastructure, digital industries, and intelligent mobility solutions. As Expo 2020 Dubai’s Premier Partner for Infrastructure Digitalisation, Siemens is reshaping the future of urban living by creating a blueprint for the smart cities of the future. By integrating its technology, the company is helping to create history’s most digitalised, sustainable and secure Expo. Siemens is also an anchor tenant at District 2020, the future city that will live on as a legacy of Expo 2020 Dubai.

Creating a blueprint for smarter cities

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UN Habitat

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There are more than 1,400 thermal springs in Hungary, in which Hungarians have soaked for health and relaxation for centuries. The Hungary Pavilion celebrates this rich tradition of thermal bathing with a deep dive into the country’s naturally steaming waters. Follow the glowing blue path to tour the hot springs’ geothermal origins, from the mystical cave bath at Miskolctapolca to the grand spas of Budapest. At the end of your journey, relax and reflect in the pavilion’s meditative inner dome, or take a sip of Hungary’s mineral and thermal waters at the Aqua Bar.

Experience an interactive journey on the theme of water without the use of water.

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Immersive tour of Hungary’s thermal waters and bathing culture

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The Hungary pavilion is a wide, gently curved concrete cylinder featuring long, vertical planks of exposed wood. Approached from the front, two thick square columns of intricately woven wood frame the entryway and rise above the main building’s domed roof. The entrance plaza features a miniature forest of smart trees, built of the same wood and featuring digital screens and umbrella-like white roofs. In step with the organic design philosophy, these trees blend in seamlessly with the pavilion’s minimalist gardens.

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As the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia opens itself to the world, its contribution to Expo 2020 mirrors the nation’s grand ambitions. Boasting a vast façade that covers the area of two football pitches, the Saudi Arabia Pavilion takes the form of an opening window that soars into the sky bearing messages of inspiration.

Your Saudi experience begins in the open plaza under the pavilion, where the giant screen above and LEDs below combine to create a dazzling light show. Next, the “Heritage Path” escalator will transport you to immersive exhibits – and you can end your journey with refreshments and shopping in the pavilion’s scenic palm garden.


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Immersive exhibition space highlighted by a multicoloured floating sphere

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The monumental Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Pavilion is a mirrored slab that extends up diagonally from the ground, resembling a giant window opening toward the sky. The immense structure soars six storeys into the air and covers more than 13,000 square metres, or the area of two football pitches. The sides of the pavilion feature a decorative motif of grey horizontal lines like layered metal, while its vast underbelly — which shades an enormous plaza — is mirrored and smooth. 


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Singapore’s decades-long journey from urban jungle to tree-filled green space has earned it the nickname “City in a Garden”. For Expo 2020, the island country has brought a slice of Singaporean greenery to the Dubai desert, creating a lush, fully explorable rainforest experience.

The open-air Singapore Pavilion unfolds across 1,500 square metres of soft tropical plant life, centred upon three striking, themed garden cones and capped by a solar canopy and hanging garden. Sample the authentic flavours of Singapore at the Sky Market, take in the leafy vistas from the canopy walk, or just take a deep breath and enjoy the garden’s calming quiet.


An abundance of plant life amid the Dubai desert, the Singapore Pavilion is a sustainable rainforest paradise, inspired by the island nation’s nickname: “City in a Garden”. The open-air structure is both surrounded by and covered with tropical greenery. Beginning at ground level, a lush garden filled with trees and shrubs encircles the three massive cone structures that form the pavilion’s core. 


New 7 Wonders of Nature Celebration and Performance

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