Reflections from the first week of COP30 in a co-authored article in English and Portuguese by a Collective of Indigenous Women and Youth, and Mestizo Women.

The Focali annual meeting days 2025 held earlier this year was an important opportunity to get together in challenging times. The high number and diverse backgrounds of participants (and their reluctance to even break up from the discussions for lunch) showed the strong interest by our members, partners and friends to engage in vibrant knowledge exchange, discussions about the turbulent times we are in and how we can navigate together ahead in new forms of collaborations to keep up the crucial research – policy – practice interface.

Stay tuned below for “live - soon after” updates from members of the Focali research network participating in Climate COP30 in Belém Brazil 10-21 November. Short updates and reflections from some of the members will be shared here during and after COP30. For additional updates on activities, they will be involved in follow them and Focali on Linked In.All members below participate via their own organizations (not via support from or for Focali) but all members in the Focali network will be active in Focali relevant themes and collaborations during COP30.

With the resumed Biodiversity COP16 concluding in Rome this week this blog by Stephen Woroniecki, Focali representatives at COP16 and fellow in the IPBES Transformative Change assessment, takes us through his experience of these milestone events for global environmental governance and shares key insights gained and needs ahead.

Welcome to submit your talk for the Focali annual meeting 2025. This year we will engage through speed talks, along with several shorter pitches in addition to the other sessions and time for discussion and networking. 

Focali is currently developing several new work streams on various topics and research - policy - practice interactions to facilitate collaboration, exchange and outreach. This post is a presentation of one of the work streams in the pipeline stay tuned for more information about activities and involved researchers and partners.

Yangambi DRC Axel Fassio CIFOR

Focali is currently developing several new work streams on various topics and research - policy - practice interactions to facilitate collaboration, exchange and outreach. This post is a presentation of the second work stream launched. More work streams on various topics are in the pipeline, stay tuned for more information and connect if you are interested to find out more.

Photo: Marlon del Aguila Guerrero (CIFOR)

Focali is currently developing several new work streams on various topics and research - policy - practice interactions to facilitate collaboration, exchange and outreach. This post is a presentation of the first work stream launched. More work streams on various topics are in the pipeline, stay tuned for more information and connect if you are interested to find out more.
Photo: Nanang Sujana/CIFOR

Preparations are gearing up for the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) to be held in Cali, Colombia, October 21-November 1. Focali will have two representatives from the network present. Neil Palmer/CIAT.