Join Wildlife Works at COP30 in Belém, Brazil
- Wildlife Works
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We’re excited to share that Wildlife Works will be participating in several events throughout COP30 in Belém, Brazil. If you’re attending, we’d love for you to join us - secure your spot now by registering below.
Roundtable: Business in the Rhythm of the Forest: How to Grow Without Overrunning Cultures? The Challenge of Entrepreneurship While Respecting Local Rhythms and Ways
(Roda de Conversa: Negócios no ritmo da Floresta: como crescer sem atropelar culturas? O desafio de empreender respeitando ritmos e modos de vida dos territórios )
🗓️ Monday, November 10, 2:00-3:15PM GMT-3
📍 CESUPA (Campus Alcindo Canela 980), Sala Terra Firme, Evento Paralelo
🎤 Speakers: Savio Gomes
This roundtable discussion will share reflections on how to develop businesses that respect the rhythms, knowledge, and organizational structures of Amazonian communities. In a context where haste, markets, and productivity often take precedence over listening and coexistence, the dialogue proposes a more human approach, one that develops business with deep respect for the local context and what it truly means to grow sustainably.
Making Biodiversity Markets Work for Indigenous Peoples
🗓️ Thursday, November 13, 12:30-1:30PM GMT-3
📍 Zoobotanical Park - Emílio Goeldi Museum, Estação Amazônia Sempre, Chalet Area
🎤 Speakers: Laura Yawanawá, Tashka Yawanawá, Biraci Yawanawá, Mike Korchinsky (Wildlife Works), and moderador (TBC)
As biodiversity credits take shape in natural capital markets, how can Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities take a leading role in developing biodiversity markets to be equitable and effective for communities, while safeguarding the ecosystems that sustain us all? From Indigenous leaders, project developers and impact investors, this panel brings together diverse voices who are shaping the future of biodiversity markets.
Tashka, Laura, and Biraci Yawanawá, Indigenous leaders from Acre, Brazil, will share their groundbreaking work piloting the first project that will issue Biodiversity Stewardship Units.
Women's Leadership and Integrity in Conservation Projects and Climate Finance
(Liderança Feminina e Integridade em Projetos de Conservação e Financiamento Climático)
🗓️ Friday, November 14, 9:30-10:45AM GMT-3
📍 Pavilhão Pará, GreenZone, Sala Samaumeira
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vanni (Wildlife Works), Laura Yawanawá, Daiane Tenharim
This panel highlights the transformative role of female leadership in the governance of conservation projects and climate finance. Bringing together Indigenous women and a representative from Wildlife Works, the conversation will address how the presence and voice of women strengthen the integrity, transparency, and effectiveness of environmental actions, especially as this is happening in community contexts, where care and inclusive governance are becoming fundamental to the sustainability of territories.
Climate Justice with a Gender Perspective: Financing Sustainable Futures
(Justiça Climática com Perspectiva de Gênero: Financiando Futuros Sustentáveis)
🗓️ Friday, November 14, 11:20-12:35AM GMT-3
📍 AgriZone Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, PA, no Auditório A2.
🎤 Speakers: Daiane Tenharin
This session explores how climate action can be designed to be equitable and inclusive, ensuring that women and marginalized communities are at the center of sustainable solutions.
Roundtable Discussion: Nesting and Integrity in Forest Carbon - Convergence between States, Companies, and Regulation (Roda de Conversa: Aninhamento e Integridade no Carbono Florestal - convergência entre Estados, empresas e regulação)
🗓️ Friday, November 14, 2:00-3:15PM GMT-3
📍 AgriZone, Embrapa Tv. Dr. Enéas Pinheiro, 208 - Marco, Belém - PA, 66083-156
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vannie (Wildlife Works), NBS Brazil Alliance representative
This roundtable discussion explores how nesting forestry projects within jurisdictional programs can strengthen the integrity and credibility of forest carbon projects. Bringing together representatives from governments, businesses, and regulatory experts, the conversation will discuss possible pathways to harmonize metrics and ensure transparency across local and national scales. The conversation will highlight the challenges and opportunities for convergence between public policies, voluntary markets, and compliance mechanisms in advancing a clear and high-impact climate agenda among stakeholders.
Challenges and Opportunities for a Just Ecological Transition, with Green Job Creation and Social Inclusion
(Desafios e Oportunidades para uma Transição Ecológica Justa, com Geração de Emprego Verde e Inclusão Social )
🗓️ Saturday, November 15, 2:30-4:00PM GMT-3
📍 Sede do Instituto Tecnológico Vale (ITV), localizado na Rua Boaventura da Silva, 955 - Nazaré, Belém/PA, Casa da Biodiversidade e Clima
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vanni (Wildlife Works), ABEMA guests
A just ecological transition is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century, while also representing an unprecedented opportunity to rethink economic development on new foundations of sustainability, equity, and innovation. This panel brings together experts, representatives from public administration and the private sector to discuss how policies and investments in the green economy can generate decent jobs, promote inclusion, and reduce inequalities. The conversation will highlight experiences and strategies that reconcile decarbonization, productive innovation, and the valorization of territories and communities, pointing to real opportunities for a more just and sustainable future.
Biodiversity Credits and the Role of Indigenous Peoples in Combating Climate Change and the Bioeconomy (Créditos de biodiversidade e o papel dos povos indígenas no combate as mudanças climáticas e bioeconomia)
🗓️ Monday, November 17, 9:30-11:00AM GMT-3
📍 Creative Economy Building in the Green Zone - General Secretariat of the Presidency
🎤 Speakers: Laura Yawanawá, Tashka Yawanawá, Biraci Yawanawa, Mike Korchinsky (Wildlife Works)
Biodiversity credits represent an opportunity to unite conservation and socioeconomic development, recognizing the value of the territories and knowledge that keep the forest alive. This mechanism can strengthen autonomy, empowerment, and community economies in the Amazon by generating direct benefits through biodiversity protection and promoting economic models rooted in traditional knowledge, territorial management, and climate justice. Based on the experience of the Yawanawá Sociocultural Association (ASCY), in partnership with Wildlife Works, the discussion will explore how innovative methodologies, such as Biodiversity Management Units (BDSU), can contribute to building a bioeconomy model that values traditional knowledge, ensures environmental integrity, and generates direct benefits for communities.
Advancing Nested Landscapes – Building on the ALMA Brazil
(Avançando em Paisagens Aninhadas - ALMA Brasil)
🗓️ Monday, November 17, 11:00AM-12:30PM GMT-3
📍 ICC-IETA Business Pavilion (Bluezone)
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vanni (Wildlife Works)
This panel presents the progress and lessons learned from the ALMA Brazil initiative, launched by IETA to support convergence between state jurisdictions, local communities, and the private sector in the Amazon, focusing on the state of Pará. The "nested landscapes" approach discussed aims to articulate large-scale jurisdictional programs with local conservation and carbon projects, integrating territorial governance, biodiversity, and carbon markets in a coherent way.
The director of Wildlife Works Brazil, Dr. Monique Vanni, will participate in the discussion on how nesting can strengthen territorial governance by integrating state government, traditional communities, and the private sector in shared decision-making structures, as well as ensuring integrity through alignment between emission reduction metrics, biodiversity conservation, and social safeguards, and expanding the impact of jurisdictional initiatives and projects, creating synergies between local, subnational, and national scales, in order to attract market investments with greater transparency and credibility.
Territories and Climate: Nature-Based Solutions
(Territórios e Clima: Soluções Baseadas na Natureza)
🗓️ Monday, November 17, 2:00-3:00PM GMT-3
📍 Action On Food Hub - Blue Zone/PVE 156
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vanni (Wildlife Works), Daiane Tenharin, Laura Yawanawá, Valber Tembé
The Amazonian territories are vibrant centers of climate and cultural solutions. This panel brings together Indigenous leaders and experts to discuss how Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can strengthen community leadership, forest conservation, and climate integrity, while promoting social inclusion and local income generation.
With the participation of Laura Yawanawá, Daiane Tenharim, and Valber Tembé, Indigenous leaders from different regions of the Amazon, and Dr. Monique Vanni, director of Wildlife Works in Brazil, the conversation will address concrete experiences of territorial management and partnerships that combine conservation, preservation, and the promotion of Indigenous culture and traditions with sustainable development.
Transtembé Film Premiere: November 17, Monday Showing
(Estreia do filme Transtembé : Sessão de segunda-feira, 17 de novembro)
🗓️ Monday, November 17, 3:00-6:00PM GMT-3
📍 Cine Líbero Luxardo - Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém - PA, 66035-340, Brazil
🎞️ Three one-hour showings with Q&As
This short documentary follows the reopening of the Tembé ancestral road and the community’s strategy for territorial protection. The film shows how the REDD+ process first rebuilt unity between the villages and how that political reunification later became concrete in the reconstruction of the road—restoring mobility, shared governance and collective control of the forest.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and community representatives.
There will be 3, 1-hour showings. Once your attendance is approved, you will be invited to one of the showings.
Didn’t catch the first screening? Here's another opportunity to view the film:
Transtembé Film Premiere: November 18, Tuesday Showing
(Estreia do filme Transtembé : Sessão de terça-feira, 18 de novembro)
🗓️ Tuesday, November 18, 10:00-1:00PM GMT-3
📍 Cine Líbero Luxardo - Av. Gentil Bittencourt, 650 - Nazaré, Belém - PA, 66035-340, Brazil
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vanni (Wildlife Works), Valber Tembé, Guest from
This short documentary follows the reopening of the Tembé ancestral road and the community’s strategy for territorial protection. The film shows how the REDD+ process first rebuilt unity between the villages and how that political reunification later became concrete in the reconstruction of the road—restoring mobility, shared governance and collective control of the forest.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and community representatives.
There will be 3, 1-hour showings. Once your attendance is approved, you will be invited to one of the showings.
Nature-Based Production: New Alliances Between Communities and the Private Sector
(Produção de Natureza: Novas Alianças entre comunidades e setor privado)
🗓️ Tuesday, November 18, 5:00-6:15PM GMT-3
📍 Pavilhão Pará, GreenZone, Sala Samaumeira
🎤 Speakers: Dr. Monique Vanni (Wildlife Works), Valber Tembé, NBS Brazil Alliance representative, Samaúma representative
How can nature be transformed into a partner for contemporary economies? This panel presents innovative experiences of collaboration between Amazonian communities, businesses, and impact networks that are redefining the concept of "nature production," promoting conservation, income generation, and socio-environmental justice. "Nature production" proposes a new economic logic in which the environmental value of nature becomes the basis for shared prosperity. The discussion will highlight experiences that reconcile income generation, cultural appreciation, and environmental integrity, showing how collaborative alliances can boost sustainable production chains, strengthen territorial governance, and expand the protagonism of communities in the transition to a regenerative economy.
We’re thrilled to bring these conversations, screenings, and stories to COP30, and we hope you’ll join us in person to learn, connect, and celebrate the leadership of Indigenous Peoples and the communities driving conservation and climate solutions. Don’t miss your chance to be part of these impactful sessions. Register now and see you there!
