Agenda

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Introduction of the Pavilion by Johan Rockström and Carlos Nobre.

10.11 10 New Insights in Climate Science: evidence, risks, and solutions

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This session launches the 2025/2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science report, presenting the latest scientific findings on climate risks and solutions. It connects emerging evidence—on warming trends, carbon sinks, health, and economics—to policy and negotiation priorities, informing action to keep 1.5°C within reach and accelerate global climate resilience.

10.11 The Earth energy imbalance: A Fundamental Indicator for a Changing Climate

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14:15

This session examines the Earth’s energy imbalance, highlighting accelerating global heating and its underlying causes. It explores how factors such as reduced shipping pollution, increased wildfires, and cloud dynamics influence this trend, offering scientific insights into the drivers of planetary warming and implications for climate action.

10.11 A New Reality: Highlights of the 2025 Global Tipping Points Report

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16:00

This session presents the Global Tipping Points Report 2025, highlighting updated insights on climate and nature tipping risks and positive tipping opportunities near 1.5°C. It explores key findings and their implications for global governance, guiding climate action toward systemic resilience and transformative, science-based solutions.

10.11 Planetary Health Check: From Overshoot to Recovery

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This session explores the state of Earth’s systems through a planetary health lens, linking science, policy, and finance to address interconnected climate and biodiversity challenges. It emphasizes holistic, equitable, and evidence-based solutions that integrate diverse knowledge systems to safeguard planetary stability and guide resilient global action.

10.11 Drinks reception

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17:45

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Tuesday, 11/11/2025
Limiting overshoot of 1.5°C - why it is vital and how to achieve it

11.11 Presentation by the COP30 Science Committee

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This will be the first public event of the Science Council set up as an advisory body by the COP Presidency. Thelma Krug, Johan Rockström and Chris Fields will present scientific messaging connecting 1.5C to mitigation, impact risks, tipping points and overshoot; as well as technologies for CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal).

11.11 Overshooting 1.5: Tipping point risks and governance

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This session explores the escalating risks of climate overshoot and tipping points across critical Earth systems, including the Amazon and global ocean circulation. It examines scientific evidence and governance frameworks needed to prevent irreversible change, guiding international cooperation toward mitigation, adaptation, and strategies for managing overshoot-related risks.

11.11 Safeguarding Climate Action: Reforming and Strengthening Carbon Markets and Accelerating CO₂ Removal – Deep-Dive Event on the 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2025

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15:00

This session examines the urgent need to scale carbon dioxide removal alongside deep emissions cuts. It explores the “CDR gap,” limits of current methods, integrity of carbon markets, and policy pathways for integrating durable, equitable, and high-integrity CDR solutions into national strategies to achieve Paris Agreement goals.

11.11 The Amazon Assessment Report 2025: Connectivity of the Amazon for a Living Planet

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This session launches the Second Amazon Assessment Report (AR2025) by the Science Panel for the Amazon, presenting new insights on the region’s ecological, social, and economic connectivity. It highlights science-based, inclusive solutions and policy recommendations to strengthen alliances, guide action, and support a resilient, interconnected Amazon at COP30.

Wednesday, 12/11/2025
Transformative Mitigation

12.11 Safe, Just, and Systemic: Science-Based Pathways for Climate Policy

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This session integrates Earth4All’s system dynamics and the Earth Commission’s safe and just boundaries framework to explore planetary guardrails, equitable economic pathways, and systemic solutions. It highlights how combining science, justice, and systems thinking can guide transformative, integrated climate action that safeguards planetary stability and advances global equity.

12.11 Reconciling Climate and Nature: Material Demands and Planetary Security

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This session addresses the growing tension between climate transitions and biodiversity protection as demand for critical minerals rises. It examines how sourcing overlaps with vulnerable ecosystems and Indigenous territories, highlighting the need to reconcile climate, nature, and security objectives to ensure truly sustainable and just global transitions.

12.11 Limiting overshoot by accelerating positive tipping points (Global Tipping Points Report 2025)

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This session explores how positive tipping points in societies, economies, and technologies can accelerate decarbonization. Bringing together science, government, and the private sector, it highlights pathways to scale transformative change and demonstrates how positive tipping dynamics can guide faster, systemic, and equitable climate action aligned with COP30 goals.

12.11 Emerging Technology solutions for Planetary Health (Launch WEF Report)

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14:15

This session explores how innovation can strengthen environmental intelligence and adaptive policymaking while addressing ethical, systemic, and equity considerations. Emphasizing that technology must complement proven solutions and collective action, it highlights how science, policy, and collaboration can drive sustainable, equitable progress within the planet’s safe operating limits.

12.11 Pathways to Low-Carbon Economies

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15:30

This session presents the Net-Zero Initiative, a multi-country effort modeling pathways to net-zero emissions in Brazil, the U.S., India, and China. Highlighting Brazil’s leadership and land-use dynamics, it explores how science, policy, and social engagement can drive equitable, evidence-based decarbonization and a clean, just energy transition.

12.11 Tropical Forest Scientific Cooperation for Conservation and Sustainable Development: Amazon, Congo Basin, and Borneo

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This high-level session convenes the Science Panels for the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Borneo to launch their new Assessment Reports. It highlights shared challenges, science-based solutions, and South-South collaboration for tropical forest conservation, climate resilience, and sustainable development, aligning regional insights with global action at COP30.

Thursday, 13/11/2025
Transformative Adaptation

13.11 EAT Lancet Commission 2025 + business leadership negotiations at COP30 : A conversation on climate, business, food + justice

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This session brings together science, policy, and Indigenous knowledge to advance food systems transformation. Building on the EAT-Lancet Commission 2025, it highlights collective solutions for healthy people and planet, fostering dialogue among experts, policymakers, and communities to align food, climate, and health goals within 1.5°C pathways.

13.11 Adaptation across scales and sectors: the case for coastal and ocean adaptation

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This session addresses the integration of coastal and ocean priorities into National Adaptation Plans. It highlights the need for coordinated, evidence-based, and inclusive approaches that link national and local actions, integrate diverse knowledge systems, and strengthen resilience in vulnerable coastal communities.

13.11 Resilience Science Must-Knows: From Global Risks to Just and Thriving Future

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This session presents key insights from the Resilience Science Must-Knows, translating decades of research into actionable guidance for navigating escalating risks. Focusing on coping, adaptation, transformation, and governance trade-offs, it explores how resilience science can inform equitable, just, and effective responses to planetary instability and accelerating global change.

13.11 Trust and fairness as tools for addressing climate change: the Brazilian case

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14:15

This session presents Earth4All’s integrated systems modelling for Brazil, linking land use, energy, trade, and social outcomes to guide transformative climate action. It highlights new insights on social tensions, equity, and governance, offering science-based pathways for inclusive, sustainable, and system-wide transitions aligned with Brazil’s development goals.

13.11 The Water Imperative: Aligning Economic Growth, Climate, and Nature

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15:30

This session explores how redefining water as a finite global asset can align economic growth, climate action, and biodiversity goals. It examines policy, finance, and governance reforms needed to manage water systemically, strengthen resilience, and embed hydrological sustainability at the core of global development and cooperation.

13.11 SeloVerde: applied science for state-level traceability solutions and access to demanding markets

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19:30

SeloVerde is an official platform developed by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) to support environmental compliance and traceability. Based on the Science (2020) article “Rotten apples of Brazil’s agribusiness”, it advances government-led efforts to eliminate illegal deforestation from supply chains.

The Government of Pará pioneered its adoption, followed by Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and Acre, which already operate their systems. Tocantins and Maranhão are implementing key components, while Mato Grosso do Sul will announce at COP30 the start of its platform with EU support.

During the event, FAO’s Global Technical Recognition will be presented to SeloVerde, confirming it as an international best practice in sustainable agricultural production.

Friday, 14/11/2025
Climate Finance

14.11 On Finance and Climate Change

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This keynote by economist Mariana Mazzucato examines how proactive state leadership and financial innovation can drive systemic solutions to the climate crisis. Bridging public policy, finance, and sustainable development, it calls for rethinking economic paradigms to build resilient, inclusive, and green economies in an era of accelerating climate challenges.

14.11 Heeding the best available climate science: What it takes to implement climate finance at the scale and speed required to limiting global warming to close to 1.5°C.

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This session examines how to align climate finance with the carbon budget constraint, translating scientific evidence into actionable financial policy. It explores pathways to bridge the gap between climate science and implementation, ensuring that scientific warnings drive concrete, scalable, and accountable investment for real-world climate action.

14.11 Socio-biodiversity accounting and financing mechanisms

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This session explores how socio-biodiversity economies in tropical ecosystems can drive climate stability and sustainable development. It highlights advances in social accounting and innovative financing—linking climate funds, markets, and local livelihoods—to value nature’s contributions and mobilize investment for inclusive, resilient, and biodiversity-aligned economic transformation.

14.11 Climate Governance from Global to Local: Confronting Today’s Challenges

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15:55

This session examines the evolving architecture of climate governance amid widening implementation gaps. It explores coordination across governance levels, integration of science into policy, and mobilization of social and financial resources—highlighting how renewed, multilevel governance can strengthen equity, accountability, and resilience in addressing the escalating global climate crisis

14.11 Financing Sustainability Strategies in a World Undergoing Critical Transition

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This session explores how global financial systems can drive systemic, just, and inclusive sustainability transitions. Focusing on the Amazon and the Global South, it examines the roles of states, markets, and multilateral institutions while addressing risks of financialization and highlighting finance models rooted in equity and territorial resilience.

Saturday, 15/11/2025
Amazon Day

15.11 Opening Session: Gregório Mirabál’s speech and Carlos Nobre

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08:45

Gregório Mirabal, a Kurripako leader from Venezuela, will open the Amazon Day with a speech that brings the importance of protecting forests, indigenous peoples rights and their knowledge.

15.11 The importance of Amazonian waters

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This session highlights the Amazon’s waters as vital to the rainforest’s climate, biodiversity, and communities. It explores threats from deforestation and climate extremes, recent findings on ecosystem health, and strategies for sustainable water management—emphasizing freshwater as a unifying force linking forests, rivers, and societies across the basin and beyond.

15.11 The cascading impacts of the 23/24 drought in the Amazonia

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11:15

This session examines the 2023/2024 Amazon drought—one of the most severe on record—marked by extreme heat, rainfall deficits, and prolonged low flows. It explores the cascading effects on ecosystems, carbon dynamics, and livelihoods, highlighting the interconnected processes that intensify the region’s environmental and climatic vulnerabilities.

15.11 The social impacts of climate change in the Amazonia

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12:30

This session explores how climate change and deforestation intensify social and ecological inequalities across the Amazon. Linking science and Indigenous knowledge, it examines social tipping points, adaptive capacities, and pathways for equitable transformation—emphasizing inclusion, dignity, and justice as foundations for a sustainable and resilient Amazonian future.

15.11 One health, epidemics and food security

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This session explores the One Health framework, linking ecosystem integrity, forest conservation, and human well-being. Focusing on the Amazon, it highlights how environmental degradation drives health risks and emphasizes transdisciplinary collaboration, early-warning systems, and preventive strategies that unite conservation and healthcare to strengthen global and community resilience.

15.11 Cities and Infrastructure in the Amazon: Supporting Local Communities and the Sociobiodiversity Economy

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15:45

This session explores how sustainable infrastructure and urban development can enhance well-being and strengthen the socio-biodiversity economy in the Amazon. It highlights strategies to design cities as catalysts for inclusive growth, aligning ecological integrity with local empowerment and sustainable economic opportunities across the rainforest region.

15.11 Initiatives and solutions – Part 1

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This session explores connectivity in the Amazon as the linking of people, knowledge, and territories. It highlights how combining traditional communication and digital tools can strengthen education, governance, and livelihoods, emphasizing inclusive, culturally grounded approaches that uphold territorial rights and environmental integrity while bridging tradition and innovation.

15.11 Initiatives and solutions – Part 2

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18:15

This session highlights how science, technology, and governance can drive concrete action for a sustainable Amazon. Featuring initiatives on supply-chain transparency, CO₂ impacts on forests, and biodiversity monitoring, it showcases collaborative solutions that strengthen regional capacity, combat deforestation, and promote a thriving Amazon essential for planetary stability.

Monday, 17/11/2025
Biodiversity day

17.11 Governance through a Planetary Science Lens

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This high-level session explores how embedding planetary boundaries into governance can align human ambition with Earth’s limits. Bringing together global leaders in science, justice, and diplomacy, it examines pathways to integrate Earth-systems knowledge into policy and finance, advancing planetary stability, equity, and peace within global decision-making frameworks.

17.11 Three Basins: One Lifeline

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11:15

This session highlights how protecting the Amazon, Congo, and Southeast Asian forest basins underpins climate stability, resilient economies, and equitable growth. It explores finance mechanisms and global cooperation to scale nature-positive investment, align capital with forest stewardship, and advance shared prosperity for Indigenous peoples and local communities.

17.11 The Insurance Effect of Biodiversity on Climate Impacts on Ecosystems

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12:30

This session explores biodiversity’s insurance effect—its role in stabilizing ecosystems amid climate stress. Focusing on the Amazon, it highlights how species and functional diversity enhance resilience, regulate carbon and water cycles, and support recovery, emphasizing biodiversity conservation as a strategic foundation for planetary stability and climate adaptation.

17.11 Bioeconomies of Sociobiodiversity in Tropical Countries

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13:45

This session explores how tropical nations can build bioeconomies of sociobiodiversity that unite conservation, innovation, and local well-being. It highlights how valuing biodiversity as prosperity’s foundation fosters inclusive growth, resilient communities, and climate stability through science, Indigenous knowledge, and equitable governance for a regenerative, nature-positive future.

17.11 Shaping our blue future: integrative research to harness marine ecosystems for climate action around the world

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16:00

This session takes participants on a global tour of marine and coastal climate action, showcasing regional approaches to protect ocean ecosystems. It highlights science-based adaptation and mitigation, integration of diverse knowledge systems, and cross-regional collaboration aligned with COP30 objectives to advance sustainable, resilient ocean governance.

17.11 Outlook: Science in the developing world for a sustainable planet

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This session explores how science in the Global South drives sustainable and equitable development. It highlights the power of local knowledge, innovation, and cooperation to address climate, biodiversity, and inequality challenges, emphasizing science diplomacy and inclusive knowledge systems as foundations for globally connected, locally grounded sustainability.

17.11 Genes, Forests, Futures: The Power of Amazon’s Genetic Resources

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Tuesday, 18/11/2025
Justice, Human rights and Health

18.11 Navigating systemic risk in a changing climate: Integrating resilience across sectors (UNDRR Policy Briefing on Systemic Risk across health, infrastructure, and the environment

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This session examines systemic risk and resilience, highlighting how interconnected systems face cascading climate and disaster impacts. Building on the UNDRR Briefing Note, it explores systems thinking, cross-sectoral strategies, and science–policy collaboration to enhance accountability, equity, and transformation in support of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

18.11 Climate change, health and productivity loss in Central Asia

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This session provides a scientific overview of climate change impacts, especially extreme heat, on health, sexual and reproductive health, and labor productivity in Central Asia, identifying vulnerabilities, data gaps, and policy-relevant recommendations to strengthen health systems, protect workers, and guide targeted adaptation, surveillance, and research priorities and equitable financing and governance measures.

18.11 Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Science in Dialogue Kamukuwaká – The Call of Forest

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This session features Kamukuwaká – The Call of the Forest, a 15-minute virtual reality film by Indigenous filmmaker Piratá Waurá. Immersing audiences in the Xingu, it blends myth and technology to share Wauja knowledge, honoring ancestral stories while inspiring just and sustainable futures amid the climate crisis.

18.11 Restoring Balance: Indigenous Peoples Science

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This session explores how Indigenous worldviews can transform climate action from extraction to stewardship. Highlighting Indigenous monitoring, ecological indicators, and place-based innovation, it emphasizes reciprocity and regeneration as foundations for climate stability, aligning scientific knowledge with ancestral wisdom to build just, enduring, and harmonious pathways for people and planet.

18.11 Synthesis Trajectories: Interlinking Health, Biome, and Economy in Contemporary Amazonia

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15:45

This session examines how agrarian production systems shape Amazonian forest landscapes, health, and sustainability. By linking socio-environmental trajectories, land use, and public policy, it highlights how techno-productive choices influence ecological and human well-being, offering integrated research and indicators to guide sustainable development and health in the Amazon biome.

18.11 Launch of Net Zero (Carlos initiative)

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This session presents findings from Brazil Net-Zero by 2040, showing how Brazil could achieve climate neutrality a decade early. It explores nature-based and energy-transition pathways, assessing governance, equity, and innovation needs to position Brazil as a global leader in a just, sustainable, and science-driven climate transition.

Wednesday, 19/11/2025
Agriculture and Food system

19.11 Technological Trajectories, Global Value Chains, and Governance in the Global South

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This session explores how global agricultural value chains shape nations in the Global South, focusing on governance dynamics and development implications. It highlights structural challenges and showcases emerging governance approaches that align commodity production with national priorities, sustainability goals, and equitable development pathways.

19.11 Linking Climate Research to the Field: Adaptive pathways for Agriculture and Food Security in Madagascar

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This session examines how climate change intensifies food insecurity in Madagascar, threatening rainfed agriculture and livelihoods. Bringing together scientists and policymakers, it presents evidence-based adaptation pathways and explores strategies to strengthen collaboration, enhance resilience, and shift from short-term humanitarian responses to long-term, climate-informed development solutions.

19.11 Family-Based Agriculture and Alternative Food Systems in a Changing World

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This session explores how family-based agriculture and alternative food systems foster resilience, equity, and sustainability. Emphasizing agroecology, biodiversity, and circular economies, it highlights the integration of science and traditional knowledge to strengthen food sovereignty, ensure healthy livelihoods, and build regenerative pathways for a just and sustainable food future.

19.11 Transformative Technology for multifunctional productive systems

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This session explores how transformative technologies—such as bio-based innovations and circular production models—can align productivity, equity, and environmental integrity in the tropics. Focusing on governance, value chains, and territorial inclusion, it highlights innovation as a catalyst for low-carbon, locally rooted, and socially just development.

19.11 Bridging Research and Scale: Evidence-Backed Agricultural Solutions

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15:45

This session will explore how to support small-scale farmers in building inclusive, resilient, and climate-smart food systems. Leaders from development banks, philanthropy, the private sector, and research institutions will discuss how to bridge the gap between research and large-scale impact by creating enabling policy and financing environments and aligning incentives across key actors.

19.11 Showcasing the Parliamentarian’s Guide to Climate Change and Climate Solutions

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This session presents The Parliamentarians’ Global Guide to Climate Change and Climate Solutions, translating cutting-edge science into actionable policy. Bringing together experts and policymakers, it explores pathways to accelerate implementation, strengthen political will, and advance integrated climate, biodiversity, and sustainability goals through evidence-based, cross-sectoral collaboration.

Thursday, 20/11/2025
Strengthening the Science-Policy interface

20.11 Taking Stock, Rooting Change: A Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-Based Solutions

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This session presents the NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban Nature-Based Solutions, the first global assessment of Nature Based Solutions for climate adaptation, resilience, and equity. Drawing on research from all world regions, it identifies barriers, enablers, and pathways to scale NbS for sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient cities.

20.11 Bridging Science and Policy for effective Science-Policy-Interfaces

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12:30

Bridging the gap between science and policy remains a persistent challenge. Scientific policy advice often struggles to achieve tangible policy impact. This session brings together diverse actors to reflect on lessons learned from past engagement efforts, assess their outcomes, and identify barriers that hinder the translation of academic insights into real-world policy.

20.11 International Decarbonization through Coalitions of the Willing: Carbon Pricing, Climate Finance, Trade, and Nature

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14:00

This session builds on The Paris Report III to explore how coalitions of willing countries can advance climate and nature goals amid weakened multilateralism. It examines pathways for flexible, incentive-aligned governance architectures that accelerate transition and restoration without relying solely on global consensus.

20.11 Social Cartography of the Amazon: Territoriality, Power and Climate Change

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