We are excited to announce that our upcoming Land Dialogues session on “Who Keeps Rainforests Standing?” will take place on June 23 at London Climate Action Week. The event will bring together leaders from the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia to explore a key question: Who shapes decisions over forests, and how do those decisions hold over time?
Across rainforest regions, many of the world’s most intact forests lie within Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local community territories, where governance is shared across governments, laws, customary institutions, and territorial systems; sometimes aligning, sometimes in tension.
Speakers will draw on territorial governance experiences to reflect on what helps forests remain standing over time and what this means for climate and conservation efforts moving forward. The discussion will focus on what is actually working on the ground, beyond high-level commitments.
The session will use a fishbowl format and will be livestreamed for online participants during London Climate Action Week. It will be available in English, French, Spanish, Indonesian, and Portuguese.
We hope you can join us.