Belém, Brazil | November 2025
The Global Forest Coalition (GFC) will participate in the civil society mobilisations around COP30 in Belém, Brazil, as well as the UN talks themselves, with a strong delegation, a series of key publications, and multiple events highlighting real, rights-based solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.
GFC’s engagement will focus on exposing false solutions such as the Tropical Forest Forever Fund (TFFF) and promoting gender-just, people-led and rights-based approaches to forest and climate policy.
About This Page
This page provides an overview of the Global Forest Coalition’s engagement at COP30 and related civil society mobilisations in Belém. It includes:
- Key contacts for GFC’s delegation in Belém.
- Details of key publications that will be launched or disseminated during the conference, focusing on false solutions, gender justice, and community-led alternatives.
- A comprehensive schedule of GFC events and activities, including official COP30 side events, press conferences, and participation in the People’s Embassy for Forests and People’s Summit.
- Links and information to follow GFC’s updates throughout COP30.
GFC’s Delegation
GFC will have a core delegation of 12 people in Belém, from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Eastern and Western Europe. The Coalition is also supporting the participation of numerous other member groups.
For media enquiries, requests for interviews, or other outreach, please contact: gfc@globalforestcoalition.org, megan@globalforestcoalition.org, jana.uemura@globalforestcoalition.org
Key Publications
During COP30, GFC will disseminate four key publications that address false solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises, highlight gender justice, and advance rights-based, community-led alternatives.
TFFF: A False Solution for Tropical Forests
This publication presents the first critical assessment of the Tropical Forest Forever Fund (TFFF), laying the foundation for GFC’s campaign against this latest attempt to financialise nature.
Exploited Lands, Exploited Lives: Struggles for Forests, Life and Gender Justice in the Global South (Forest Cover 69)
Through six member group case studies, this publication builds a comprehensive picture of the gendered impacts of deforestation driven by monoculture tree plantations, industrial agriculture, and mining.
Overcoming Barriers to Real Solutions (Forest Cover 70, coming soon!)
To be launched during GFC’s side event on 14 November, this forthcoming edition features seven case studies illustrating real, community-driven solutions and analyses ways to overcome barriers to their implementation.
Dry Streams in an Ocean of Eucalyptus: Community Resistance to “Green” Steel, Charcoal and Biochar in Minas Gerais
This podcast explores community resistance in Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley, where the steel company Aperam uses eucalyptus from industrial plantations to produce charcoal and biochar for carbon offset markets.
Key Events
GFC will host, co-host, and participate in a range of official COP30 events, press conferences, and civil society mobilisations. These engagements will amplify frontline perspectives and advocate for genuine, gender-just, and people-led climate solutions.
Official COP30 Events
Side Event: From Pledges to Locally-led Climate Action: Gender Just Indigenous Solutions for Forests
11 November | 15:00–16:30 | Room 7
The Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA 2) –a programme GFC is part of– and GAGGA (Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action) are joining forces in an official event to discuss the conditions that enable locally-led climate action. With the participation of Indigenous leaders, CSO experts, Steven Collet, Vice Minister for Development of the Netherlands, and Neale Richmond, Minister of State at the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.
Side Event: Prospects and Challenges for Real, Gender-Just, People-Led Climate Solutions
14 November | 18:30–20:00 | Room 4
Frontline communities are forging climate solutions grounded in rights and justice. This session explores systemic barriers to these transformative approaches and identifies what is needed to shift policy frameworks toward real, gender-just, and people-led solutions.
Side Event: A Just Transition Away from Industrial Animal Agriculture as a Pathway to 1.5C and Food Justice
18 November | 10:15 – 11:45. Food roots and routes pavilion
Representatives from diverse constituencies and regions will explore how shifting from industrial animal production to fair, humane and sustainable food systems can cut emissions, protect ecosystems, and empower farmers and marginalized communities, guided by the Just Food Transition roadmap centred in justice.
Press Conferences
Geoengineering: An Illusion That Threatens Our Future
10 November /10:30 – 11:00 / Press Conference Room 2 – Area D
Live Webcast
Sovereignty key to a truly just transition in the Global South
19 November / 11:30 – 12:00 / Press Conference Room 2, Area D
Live Webcast
People’s Embassy for Forests (Rede GTA Building)
No to TFFF and Other False Solutions for Forests!
12 November | 09:00–13:00
This event will feature plenary discussions, regional interventions, and cultural activities addressing major false solutions promoted at COP30 and other international fora — including TFFF, bioenergy, land-based geoengineering, and carbon markets. Participants will demonstrate why these approaches fail and how they obstruct real, community-driven alternatives.
People’s Summit Events
The Amazon and Forest Internationalism – Entwined Activity, Axis 4
15 November | 14:30–17:30 | Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA) – Auditório 1H.
This session connects multidimensional strategies emerging from the Amazon and tropical forests in Asia and Africa to address the climate crisis. Participants will coordinate campaigns opposing false solutions such as plantations, carbon markets, REDD+, TFFF, BECCS, biochar, and genetically modified trees.
TFFF: A False Solution for Tropical Forests – Entwined Activity, Axis 2
13 November | 14:30–17:30 | Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA) – Mini Tenda 2 external.
An in-depth examination of how the Tropical Forest Forever Fund operates, its likely impacts on communities and the environment, and its implications for women and gender-diverse people.
From Extractivism to Life: An Inclusive and Popular Just Transition in the Amazon and the World – Entwined Activity, Axis 3
14 November | 14:00–16:00 | Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA) – Mirante, Room 309.
A two-hour discussion on a Just, Popular, and Inclusive Transition, featuring voices from social movements, traditional communities, unions, and experts. The session will explore how to ensure that energy, economic, and social transitions uphold justice, territorial sovereignty, and the protection of life.
Tribunal of Women and Gender Diverse People (Axis 6)
13 November | 14:00–18:300 | Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA) – People’s Summit Tent, UFPA Campus, R. Augusto Corrêa, 01- Guamá, Belém
A global space to publicly denounce systemic and structural violences against the bodies and territories of women and gender diverse people
Feminist Resistance and Gender Justice Event (Axis 6)
14 November | 08:30–12:30 | Universidad Federal de Pará (UFPA) -UFPA Ginásio de Esportes.
A global political and educational space to exchange practices and knowledge among feminist and gender justice movements.
Casa das ONGs (NGO House)
Community Pathways to a Just Transition
16 November | 16:00–17:30
This roundtable will bring together diverse perspectives on ensuring that the energy transition is just, inclusive, and rooted in gender and racial equity. Participants will discuss local and regional initiatives advancing transformative economies and popular climate solutions while addressing the structural barriers that impede a justice-centred transition.
Stay Connected
Follow GFC’s participation at COP30 for updates, live event coverage, and publication launches.
Website: www.globalforestcoalition.org
Contact: gfc@globalforestcoalition.org – megan@globalforestcoalition.org – jana.uemura@globalforestcoalition.org
