On Friday (13), Plataforma CIPÓ and the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) hosted the roundtable From Belém to COP32: Advancing the COP30 Legacy on Fossil Fuels and Forests at the Climate Cooperation Lounge, CIPÓ’s space in the Blue Zone of COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye. The meeting brought together nearly 50 people.
The discussion focused on the next steps for the roadmaps launched by Brazil’s COP30 Presidency: one on transitioning away from fossil fuels and another on halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030. Participants discussed how to keep these commitments on the multilateral agenda through COP32, to be held in Ethiopia. The roundtable was held under the Chatham House Rule.
Participants included Maiara Folly, Executive Director and Co-founder of Plataforma CIPÓ; André Guimarães, Executive Director of IPAM; Paulo Artaxo, Director of the Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP) and President of IPAM; Marco Tulio Cabral, Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Jonas Freitas, COP30 Presidency; Juliano Assunção, Executive Director of Climate Policy Initiative (CPI); Mithika Mwenda, Executive Director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA); Irene Vélez Torres, former Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia; and Wang Yi, Vice Chair of China’s National Expert Committee on Climate Change.
Global Implementation Accelerator
On the same day, CIPÓ attended the COP30 Presidency’s high-level event on the Global Implementation Accelerator, an initiative created in Belém to help countries implement their national climate commitments and speed up progress toward the goals of the Paris Agreement.<br/>
