ALDEIA COP Belém
Belém, Brazil
Join us for ALDEIA COP Belém! Forest Trends is proud to support the Indigenous Village at COP30 (Aldeia COP)—the central hub for Indigenous participation in Belém this November.
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In partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Greendata, we’re helping bring together up to 3,000 Indigenous leaders from Brazil and around the world to shape climate negotiations, policy, and governance. The Village will feature workshops on climate finance and REDD+, a Bioeconomy Fair, and cultural programming celebrating Indigenous art, rituals, and innovation. This is a global stage created and led by Indigenous Peoples—moving from resistance toward meaningful impact.
Forest Trends Events at ALDEIA COP (time and location to be updated)
1. Direct Financing and Support for Forest Guardians to Strengthen Territorial Governance
Date: TBD | Time: TBD | Location: TBD
The session explores models of direct financing and support for Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant, and traditional communities, recognizing their central role as forest guardians and key actors in territorial governance. Based on the experience of the Territorial Governance Mechanism (TGM), the discussion will promote exchange among community leaders, funders, and technical partners from across the Global South. The dialogue aims to foster exchange, learning, and collective proposal-building on strategies and tools that strengthen autonomy, governance, and territorial management, ensuring a
direct flow of resources to
local organizations.
2. Forests of Abundance and Bioeconomies in Action: Restoration, Sociobiodiversity, and Climate Justice
Date: TBD | Time: TBD | Location: TBD
This session presents integrated experiences of forest restoration and the strengthening of Indigenous sociobiodiversity value chains that connect conservation, regeneration, and inclusive economic development. Drawing from Forest Trends and its partners’ work in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest, the discussion will highlight innovative practices such as muvuca seed planting and the development of Indigenous-led value chains for agroforestry cocoa and traditional crafts. These initiatives show how restoration can generate prosperity and climate justice by strengthening the autonomy of Indigenous Peoples, small farmers, women, and youth. The dialogue will seek to identify pathways to expand the territorial impact of these actions, connecting public policies, integrated financing, and regenerative and inclusive bioeconomy models.
3. Fair Climate Finance: Leadership of Forest Guardians
Date: TBD | Time: TBD | Location: Emílio Goeldi Museum
This session will explore pathways to make climate finance more equitable and effective by ensuring Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs and LCs) take the lead in Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) initiatives. Drawing from Forest Trends’ experience in Brazil, Mexico, and Ecuador, speakers will present participatory models for benefit-sharing, Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), and territorial governance.