Nov 22, 2025, COP30 Belém Amazônia - Closing plenary meeting of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). Photo: Rafa Neddermeyer/COP30 Brasil Amazônia

Webinar: Beyond Belém – Hope and Action for Forests, Climate and Livelihoods

Join us for a stock take on what happened in Belém the first Climate COP30 in the Amazon and discuss what implications the outcomes may have for forests, climate and livelihoods moving forward. 

This post-COP30 webinar will focus on COP30 outcomes and side-initatives related to safeguarding of tropical forests and the role and inclusion of forest communities and Indigenous Peoples as allies to steward, restore and protect forests for local and global benefits. 

We will hear from members in the Focali research network who participated in Belém as well as key actors in these topics who participated in COP30 who will share their firsthand reflections and help us understand what happened and why? What were the hot topics discussed and the major wins for forests and livelihoods? Based on what happened and not - what should stay on our radar beyond Belém? What has the potential to reshape our agendas? And what actions are needed to seize this opportunity? 

With high ambitions and hopes for this COP30, comparing the outcomes to the scale of the challenges and the urgency for action it is easy to dismiss it as inadequate. But if we are not careful this opens the door to fatalism. The nature of hope, and the need to treat hope as conditional, and as a deliberate practice has been discussed in a past Focali led seminar. This webinar will follow up these discussions as we move forward from COP30 and ask:

- Where can we draw hope from the COP process and what happened in Belém more broadly and why?

Registration
Sign up here to get the Zoom link to attend this webinar that will be held as a Zoom meeting hosted by Alice Tunfjord SIANI - SEI.

Co-arrangers:
Focali research network in collaboration with SIANI, SEI, Trase and RWI

Confirmed speakers:

Moderator: Toby Gardner, Co-Director Trase, Senior Research Fellow at Stockholm Environment Institute - SEI, Focali member

Taís Sonetti González, Post-doctoral reseracher at Unicamp - AmazonFACE, resercher associated with Stockholm Resilience Centre, Focali member and reporting back from COP30 for the Focali - SIANI collaboration

Claudia Ituarte-Lima, International public lawyer, Senior Researcher and Thematic leader on human rights and environment at Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Coordinator of DEFENDBIO and Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and Environment, Focali member

Mairon Bastos Lima, Senior Research Fellow Stockholm Environment Institute - SEI, Science Lead in Trase and Focali member

Arild Angelsen, Professor, School of Economics and Business, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences NMBU, Focali member

Alexandre Antonelli, Professor University of Gothenburg, Director of Science Kew Gardens, Founder Hidden Universe: Biodiversity, Focali member

Speaker on livelihoods, rights, tenure and forests (tba here soon)

Agenda:

Time: 13:00 - 14.15

A detailed agenda will soon be added here

Related:

Read reflections from Focali members who participated in COP30 on this Focali “live updates” page.

Re-watch our past joint event Stories of hope from tropical forests and how to strengthen promising pathways

Watch our past joint Biodiversity COP16 Post-Match Webinar here

Sign-up for the SEI - LiU Online dialogue Dec 4: COP30 post-match analysis with focus on the main outcomes