COP 28
The planet is warmer, and people face unprecedented impacts worldwide: record forest fires, catastrophic floods, and unbearable heat waves. And, worst of all, the first climate evaluation report card (Global Stocktake) showed how behind we are in our climate ambitions. We need drastic actions that will benefit the climate, and we need them now. COP28 is an opportunity for the world to raise its climate ambition.
Starting on November 30, representatives of nearly 200 countries will meet to coordinate global climate actions—at the Conference of the Parts – COP28, the 28th UN Climate Conference.
The climate COP happens in different cities each year to demonstrate the importance of all countries working together. This year, the conference will occur in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Even though cooperation to face climate change is the general aim of all the meetings, specific topics can vary each year.
As was the case last year, the host country sets the tone and directs the initial discussion. This year, the COP28 focal areas include:
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Transition to clean energy
Accelerating the energy transition and cutting carbon emissions before 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5° C (2.7° F) above pre-industrial levels.
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Center nature, people, lives and livelihoods
Putting nature, people, and communities at the center of climate actions, including helping the most vulnerable adapt to the changes already taking place.
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Financing Agreements
Delivering old promises and defining a framework for a new climate-action financing deal that must be accessible and available to developing countries.
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Mobilizing inclusion
Mobilizing the most inclusive COP to date to ensure that the decisions and discussions and implementing solutions are truly inclusive and done in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Main facts about nature and climate
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1.5° C
Restricting the planet’s warming to 1.5º C is the global goal to limit the rise of the planet’s average temperature and reduce the harmful effects of climate change.
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1/3
Protecting and restoring nature can bring about 1/3 fewer emissions.
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<10%
Nature-based solutions receive <10% of the current climate financing.
TNC at the COP28
Why will TNC participate in the COP28?
At the annual COP conference, delegates of almost all countries in the world negotiate global goals to fight climate change, present their countries’ plans to contribute to the goals and report on their progress.
The participation of some of the greatest policymakers and climate specialists in COP28 is an excellent opportunity to advance the role of nature in fighting climate change and in the Paris Acord.
While countries update and align their Climate Plans, TNC staff will be at the forefront of negotiations, communicating with government, companies, the third sector, and community leaders to promote greater ambition, build more resilient societies, and invest more effort in climate mitigation and adaptation.
To achieve those goals, TNC will defend a faster transition to renewable energy and the increased use of nature-based solutions, in addition to more investment from the public and private sectors, especially to help countries most affected by climate change. We will also fight to ensure that the voices of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are respected since they are the people who best know how to work with nature.
Brazil at the COP28
What can we expect of Brazil in the COP28?
During the COP27, Brazil resumed its central role in the global climate agenda (in Portuguese). Now, COP28 will be an important moment to advance strategic topics for the country:
O que esperar do Brasil na COP
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On November 3rd, 2023, Brazil registered its climate goals’ (NDC) correction with the UNFCCC. That means the country resumes the original goal ambition presented during the 2015 Paris Accord. In addition to the NDC, Brazil will present the results of the deforestation decline in the Amazon, the new climate governance with the Climate Plan review, including the mitigation and adaptation sectors, in addition to newly developed economic instruments, such as the Ecological Transformation Plan, the resumption of the Amazon Fund and the Climate Fund, the possibility of regulating the carbon market with the progress of the Senate-approved Bill (PL) 512/2022, and Brazil’s Green Taxonomy.
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The leadership of state governments is essential to fighting deforestation and promoting the low-carbon economy. That is why the COPs have been strategic occasions for governors and other subnational representatives to present their plans and advances. Part of those debates will occur at the Brazilian Amazon Governors’ Pavilion, led by the (Legal) Brazilian Amazon Sustainable Development Interstates Consortium, which will participate in COP28.
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COP30, the 2025 Climate Conference, will occur in an Amazonian city for the first time: Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil. Discussions showing the path Brazil and the world must take to prepare for that moment are expected at COP28. It will be at COP30 that countries will evaluate their results regarding the 2030 Goals, and Brazil will have the unique opportunity to show the world it can lead the climate agenda.
“Adopting a more ambitious role is key to ensuring that COP30, to be held in Belém in 2025, symbolizes a new milestone in the fight against climate change. Countries are expected to evaluate their results regarding the 2030 goals at COP30, so Brazil will have the opportunity to be an example, consolidating its central role and leading the climate agenda globally,”
Karen Oliveira, director of public policy and government relations, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Brazil.
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Agenda
TNC Brasil agenda at COP28
DECEMBER 1
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Title: Sharing Lessons and Building Amazon-Basin Wide Collaboration: Redirecting Climate Finance Towards Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) to accelerate Natural Climate Solutions (NCS)
Day: December 1
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Place: Nature Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@nature4climate
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Title: Open Reception Nature Pavilion - VR Brief speech
Day: December 1
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Place: Nature Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@nature4climate
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Title: Pará State Cattle Integrity & Development Program
Day: December 1
Time: 18:30 - 19:30
Place: Foodsystem Pavilion(Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
DECEMBER 2
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Title: Benefit Sharing and Redirection of Financial Flow: from Climate Finance to Indigenous Land
Day: December 2
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Nature Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@nature4climate
DECEMBER 3
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Title: Global Supply Chains Science Based Targets and its´ Impact
Day: December 3
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Place: UNGC Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Somos Pueblos Indígenas, Somos Solución: Agentes del cambio: una mirada
Day: December 3
Time: 16:00 -
Place: Latin American and Caribbean, Region of Solutions Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
DECEMBER 4
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Title: COP28 Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes Meeting
Day: December 4
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Place: Main stage (Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
DECEMBER 5
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Title: Somos Mata Atlántica, Somos Solución
Day: December 5
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Place: Latin American and Caribbean, Region of Solutions Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
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Title: The Importance of the Private Sector and Local Governments in the Fight against Climate Change and their Contribution to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
Day: December 5
Time: 10:30 - 11:30
Place: SDG Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
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Title: We are water security, we are natural solutions
Day: December 5
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Place: Latin American and Caribbean, Region of Solutions Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Brasil rumo à COP30: protagonismo indígena e de comunidades locais no enfrentamento à crise climática
Day: December 5
Time: 15:00 - 16:15
Place: Brasil Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: www.brasilcop.com
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Title: A governança e a gestão de recursos hídricos como ferramenta de adaptação e mitigação às mudanças climáticas – Rumo à agenda da transformação.
Day: December 5
Time: 16:30 - 17:45
Place: Brasil Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: www.brasilcop.com
december 6
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Title: Mobilizing Finance at scale for bioeconomy in Brazil
Day: December 6
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Place: Nature Pavilion (Bluezone)
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@nature4climate
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Title: A transição dos sistemas alimentares e suas implicações para o meio ambiente, consumo e saúde pública
Day: December 6
Time: 9:00 - 10:15
Place: Brasil Pavilion (Blue zone)
Livestream: www.brasilcop.com
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Title: The opportunities and challenges for the decarbonization of the airline industry in Chile
Day: December 6
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Place: Chile Pavilion
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Responsible Forest management: Private sector's role in saving our forests and the road to Belém
Day: December 6
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Place: UNGC Blue zone Pavilion
Livestream: TBC
december 8
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Title: Agenda Azul: Investir em água como prioridade para os negócios
Day: December 8
Time: 9:40 - 10:40
Place: Dmcc Dubai
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Biodiversidade e Clima – Impactos e dependência
Day: December 8
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Place: Dubai Multi Commodities Center
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Beyond value: PES Program on private lands and IPLC territories in the Amazon
Day: December 8
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Place: Nature Pavilion
Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@nature4climate
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Title: O papel das empresas na transição climática justa
Day: December 8
Time: 16:30 - 17:00
Place: Dmcc Dubai Multi Commodity Center
Livestream: TBC
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Title: SISTEMAS ALIMENTARES E AGRICULTURA REGENERATIVA: DA COP 28 à COP 30 – A META PARÁ E AS PARCERIAS DE IMPLEMENTAÇÃO.
Day: December 8
Time: 16:30 - 17:00
Place: Dmcc Dubai Multi Commodity Center
Livestream: TBC
december 9
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Title: Segurança Fundiária e desenvolvimento socioeconômico
Day: December 9
Time: 9:00 - 10:00
Place: Hub da Amazônia
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Enhancing food and nature linkages for climate action
Day: December 9
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Place: Green Zone
Livestream: TBC
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Title: Financing for Nature-Based Climate Solutions
Day: December 9
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Place: Spain Pavilion
Livestream: TBC
december 10
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Title: Os desafios e oportunidades da sociobioeconomia para clima e biodiversidade no Brasil
Day: December 10
Time: 9:00 - 10:15
Place: Brasil Pavilion
Livestream: www.brasilcop.com
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Title: O futuro econômico da Amazônia em um cenário de redução do desmatamento
Day: December 10
Time: 10:30 - 11:45
Place: Brasil Pavilion
Livestream: www.brasilcop.com
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Title: Food Systems Transformation: Pioneering Financial Innovations and technological solutions
Day: December 10
Time: 10:30 - 11:15
Place: UNEP Pavilion
Livestream: TBC
december 11
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Title: Instrumentos financeiros para a transição da agropecuária
Day: December 11
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Place: Brasil Pavilion
Livestream: www.brasilcop.com
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Title: Benefit Sharing and Redirection of Financial Flow: from Climate Finance to Indigenous Lands
Day: December 11
Time: 14:40 - 15:40
Place: Indigenous Pavilion
Livestream: TBC
Projects
TNC Brazil and Partners’ Projects and Initiatives
TNC has worked on the conservation agenda in Brazil for more than 30 years. Below, check out some of our top strategies to tackle the climate crisis:
PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
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The Innovating Finance for the Amazon, Cerrado and Chaco (IFACC) was launched at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021. It announced an initial commitment of US$3 billion in loans and investment mechanisms for South America's deforestation- and conversion-free soy and livestock production (DCF), to be disbursed by 2025. One year after its launch, IFACC commitments went up to US$4.2 billion, and 13 financial institutions and agribusiness companies are signatories: &Green Fund, AGRI3, DuAgro, Grupo Gaia, JGP Asset Management, Syngenta, Sustainable Investment Management, VERT, Mauá Capital, 3J Capital, OPEA, Agrogalaxy e AgDev. IAFCC is also working with other financial institutions and companies that have not formally joined the initiative to increase the flow of capital toward DCF agriculture.
The financial sector is a fundamental partner in transitioning to sustainable production models. Various IFACC-aligned products were launched in the past ten months, and we hope that the disbursements exceed US$100 million by the end of 2022[AT1] . The initiative also launched its "Finance for a Forest Positive Future" report, the Impact Monitoring Guide, and supported more than 20 financial institutions in Brazil via training to develop innovative financial solutions.
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TNC defined four priority global landscapes as the focus of its work, and the Amazon is one of them, in addition to Kenya, Borneo, and the Appalachians (USA). Among the factors that led TNC to those choices are those regions’ potential to provide globally significant contributions to our conservation results, their high relevance for biodiversity and carbon, and their potential to inspire new levels of engagement and support.
In the Brazilian Amazon, Pará state is TNC’s main region of work. It houses 9 percent of the world’s forests and, simultaneously, leads the ranking of Brazilian states that most deforest and emit carbon. Through a systemic approach, TNC works collaboratively with Indigenous Peoples, Quilombolas, extractive and traditional communities, rural producers, governments, the private sector, and civil society to tackle contemporary challenges that demand integrated and sustainable solutions. Learn More.
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The Amazon Now State Plan (PEAA in Portuguese) was announced at the COP25 in 2019 and launched by the Pará government at an event promoted by TNC. The PEAA is part of a strategy to strengthen the Brazilian Amazon subnational management and make implementing public policies that aim at a low-carbon economy possible.
The Plan consists of two important pillars: Financing—through the Eastern Amazon Fund (FAO)—and territorial governance—through the Sustainable Territories Integrated Action Policy. Learn more in this article (in Portuguese).
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Around 40 percent of deforestation in the Amazon occurs in small rural properties, mainly due to extensive, low-technology livestock farming.
However, the Forest Cocoa project has proven that deforestation is not the only path those producers can take. Cocoa agroforests can generate more income, recover degraded areas, and ensure land sustainability in the long run.
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TNC, in partnership with Amazon and the World Agroforestry (ICRAF), launched the Agroforest and Restoration Accelerator initiative in 2021. The project seeks to generate quality carbon credits, attract investments, and innovate by creating expandible and replicable business models in other regions to drive agroforestry systems and ecological restoration.
The initiative, which is committed to engaging up to 3,000 families, will help family farmers who today have degraded or nonproductive areas in their properties migrate toward agroforestry system arrangements based on growing cocoa and other Amazon native species, such as açaí, which have high market demand and attractive profitability.
The restoration of those areas should reach 18,000 hectares and remove 9.6 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere in 30 years in three territories: Southeastern Pará, the Tans Amazon highway region, and northern Pará. Learn more here.
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In collaboration with the Western Pará Federal University (UFOPA) and the Lower Amazon Fishers Movement (MOPEBAM), the Tapajós Waters Project works in partnership with traditional communities to conserve the Tapajós River Basin in western Pará. The project aims to contribute to local development, increasing knowledge of sustainable use of aquatic resources and freshwater conservation in the region, supporting riparian communities in their community organization, governance, and community management to expand their participation and voice with other regional actors and in territorial planning.
The riparian communities that practice traditional fishing and depend on the basin resources to survive and produce are the primary partners and beneficiaries of the project. Learn more here (in Portuguese).
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In the Atlantic Forest’s Mantiqueira region, TNC promotes and develops a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) model as one of the instruments to achieve restoration and conservation objectives.
Around 100,000 hectares have already been restored in the Atlantic Forest, of which 7,000 were restored by TNC. As of 2021, those restored areas had removed more than 9 million megatons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Learn more (in Portuguese).
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TNC mobilizes people and companies in a collective, native vegetation restoration movement via the Restaura Brasil campaign to restore one billion trees in 400,000 hectares by 2030.
Donate trees and help Brazil achieve its restoration goal at the speed and scale needed by the country and the world. Learn more.
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In partnership with IDB and Natura, TNC launched the study “Socio-biodiversity’s Bioeconomy in Pará State," illustrating the market's size. In 2019 alone, socio-biodiversity in Pará generated a US$1.1 billion GDP, and if the public policies recommended by the state are adopted, that amount could reach US$34.7 billion by 2040.
Those data were unknown to official statistics, which could not measure the market value of all the links in the chain. More than 70 percent of Pará’s forests are managed by Traditional Communities (Indigenous Lands, extractive reserves, Quilombola territories, and conservation units). TNC supports communities so their economic, sustainable use of natural resources projects are valued and strengthened. Check out the Executive Summary and the entire study here (the English version is at the bottom of the page).
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Com o objetivo de dar voz e amplitude às suaspróprias pautas, a rede de comunicadores indígenas da Amazônia começou a tomar forma em 2016 e hoje conta com comunicadores, jornalistas, cinegrafistas e fotógrafos que trabalham para que as informações cheguem nas bases de cada comunidade. Organizações como a Coordenação das Organizações Indígenas da Amazônia Brasileira (COIAB), a Federação dos Povos Indígenas do Pará (FEPIPA), a Federação dos Povos e Organizações Indígenas do Mato Grosso (FEPOIMT), a Articulação dos povos e organizações indígenas do Amapá e Norte do Pará (APOIANP) e a Mídia Índia, com o apoio de parceiros como a The Nature Conservancy Brasil (TNC), que tem contribuído para a capacitação na criação de conteúdo digital e utilização de ferramentas e plataformas de comunicação. Saiba mais sobre como a comunicação tem se tornado importante instrumento de luta para os povos indígenas da Amazônia.
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Since 2015, TNC has partnered with great companies, the public sector, and civil society to promote conservation and restoration actions in springs and river basins, joining forces to create a sustainable economic development environment to protect water sources. The Green-Blue Water Coalition [AT1] is an initiative that uses nature-based solutions, among other strategies, to strengthen water management, engaging the public sector and businesses in conserving, restoring, and governance of river basins. The aim is to expand the scale and impact of basin restoration in the Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, and the Amazon. As a result, the Coalition restored and conserved 124,000 hectares and leveraged over US$49 million. In addition to the Green-Blue Water Coalition, municipal spring conservation programs are a crucial piece of TNC’s work. We work to develop local public policies and are directly involved in implementing and leveraging resources, structuring governance, and developing legal frameworks to create laws that formalize establishing programs.
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The Reverte Program was launched in 2019 by Syngenta, TNC, and local partners. It aims to promote restoring degraded landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado, a region of immeasurable natural value due to its carbon reserves, freshwater, and biodiversity. It also makes room for the projected expansion of soy and other cultures sustainably and profitably, avoiding new conversion of native vegetation.
The program aims to support rural producers in recovering agricultural lands through an integrated solution that involves good agricultural practices, protocols for using inputs, and a financial solution based on a long-term financial loan program.
Reverte is a collective effort to represent institutions such as banks, commercial businesses, rural producers, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), and academia.
The Reverte Program was created to support rural producers in restoring degraded areas through an integrated solution that involves good agricultural practices, financial instruments, and input-use protocols for making fertilizer-seed machines and pesticides appropriate for growing soy and other cross-crop cultures. The program also aims to strengthen pre-existing projects through partnerships that share the same goals and can contribute to the evolution and scale of regenerative agriculture in the Cerrado.
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The Mato Grosso REM Program—launched at the Rio+20 in 2012—consists of rewarding results obtained in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.
Mato Grosso state has benefitted from the Program since 2017 for promoting a significant reduction in deforestation over ten years (2004-2014). The Mato Grosso REM Program’s contract has resources of €44 million from the German Government via the German Development Bank (KfW) and the United Kingdom government through its Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The Program aims to reduce deforestation rates in Mato Grosso state through forest conservation and climate protection. It established an Emissions Reduction target of 11 million tCO2e in accordance with the determination of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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+ Strengthening forest restoration to generate income for rural landowners in the Mantiqueira Range
Forests are essential allies in climate change mitigation and have enormous potential to generate income via carbon credits.
TNC has worked in the Mantiqueira Range with support from the Regenera América Program to give scale to forest restoration through Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and carbon credit generation. Learn more (in Portuguese).
Our team at COP28
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FERNANDA MACEDO
Communication Coordinator - Amazon and ClimateWhatsapp +55(11) 98545-0237 - Email: fernanda.macedo@tnc.org