Amazon Alive: Communities Ending Deforestation
How do we secure the future of the Amazon and its peoples? Indigenous Peoples and local communities have safeguarded the Amazon for generations. Their leadership is crucial not just for halting deforestation but for climate stability, biodiversity and justice.
This roundtable will amplify the voices of those already driving transformative conservation rooted in ancestral knowledge, cultural resilience and territorial governance.
There will be short contributions from Samela Satere Mawe, Indigenous Leader, Sateré-Mawé People; Marcelo Behar, COP30 Special Envoy for Bioeconomy; Mariana Oliveira, Interim Director, Forests, Land Use and Agriculture Programme Manager, WRI Brazil; Laurence Duprat, Senior Civil Society Campaigns Advisor, Forests, Global Witness; Damian Fleming, Deputy Practice Leader, Forests, WWF International, and Luana Kaingang, Indigenous Leader, Kaingang People.
Hosted by Bel Lyon, Chief Advisor, Latin America, WWF and Alexandre Chausson, Senior Policy Advisor, Nature-based Solutions, WWF-UK.
We will explore the systemic barriers, the solutions, and the urgent need for equitable partnerships that shift power and resources to the frontlines. We’ll examine how unsustainable consumption – particularly in the Global North – is fuelling forest loss, and how transforming food systems and supply chains can support thriving ecosystems and communities.
The session concludes with a collective call to action for 'The Forest COP' - COP30 - urging world leaders to end deforestation by 2030 through rights-based policies that restore ecosystems and ensure climate justice.
Hosted by WWF, in collaboration with WRI