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Few places capture the confluence of the biodiversity and climate crises as evocatively as the Amazon Basin. Its rainforests are home to vast biodiversity and immense carbon stores, and are themselves crucial for global water cycling and climate regulation. Yet the biome hovers close to an irreversible ‘tipping point’ that could see its systems collapse by 2050.
With the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil as the backdrop for the much-anticipated 30th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP30), the critical roles of nature and land use in mitigating climate impacts will be front of mind.
As at previous COPs, CIFOR-ICRAF will bring to the table our decades of research and practice exploring how forests, trees and agroforestry can mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts, as well as how to work inclusively with people—and secure finance—to achieve equitable progress in these arenas.
Our work is particularly aligned with this year’s focal areas, which include among other things protecting tropical forests, upping NDCs, involving Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) as equal partners and promoting agroforestry and nature-based solutions.
Follow our journey to Belém online—or, meet us there!
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