Fund and Project Facility for the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon

COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dec 5, 16:00-17:00, joint event with the IDB and the Colombian Government: Fund and Project Facility for the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon, IDB Pavilion. Participants: Susana Muhamad, Ministry, Environment – Colombia, Fany Kuiru, COICA General Coordinator, Tatiana Schor, Amazon Unit, IDB., Tiffany Jodgson, GCF., Françoise Salamé Guex, Responsable de Climate Network WE, Swiss State Secretariat for economic affairs, (SECO)

A Conditioned Debt Forgiveness and Other Financial Mechanisms to Protect 80% of Amazonia by 2025

COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Shaping a Climate Resilient Future for People and Nature through the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda

COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dec 3, 10:00-11:00, Fany Kuiru, COICA´s General Coordinator will be the Keynote Speaker at the event organized by UN Climate Change High Level Champions, Marrakech Partnership, Global Resilience Partnership and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Shaping a Climate Resilient Future for People and Nature through the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda: Shaping a Climate Resilient Future for People and Nature through the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, Arena 2 (Al Wakri). Blue Zone of the COP 28 venue and will require Blue Zone accreditation.

Press Conference: WECAN: Indigenous Women in Amazonia

COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dec 2, 17:00-17:30, Fany Kuiru, COICA´s General Coordinator, will be a panelist at the press conference WECAN: Indigenous Women in Amazonia Press conference Room 2: Zone B6. Building 77.

Sharing lessons and building collaboration across the Amazon basin: redirecting climate finance to Indigenous peoples

COP28, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dec 1, 09:00-10:00: Jorge Pérez, President AIDESEP/Peru will present Initiative 80x2025 in the panel "Sharing lessons and building collaboration across the Amazon basin: redirecting climate finance to Indigenous peoples”, at Nature Positive Pavilion.

Fireside chat with H.E. Razan and IP leaders

The Shed 545 West 30th Street New York, NY 10001 United States

Radical Listening from Communities: What are the key messages we need to champion at COP-28?” closing panel for the morning before the GATC leaders begin a ceremonial walk along the New York HighLine in honour of lost indigenous leaders and environmental defenders.

Supporting Bioeconomies of Healthy Standing Forest and Flowing Rivera in the Amazon

Cure Atlas 345 Park Southamptones, New York – NY.

The Science Panel for the Amazon invites you to discuss a new bioeconomy of standing forests and flowing rivers for the Amazon region. 3-4:30pm ET.

No Time to Spare: Averting Fossil Fuel Expansion in Earth’s Most Bioculturally Diverse Ecosystems

109 W 39th St.

Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) General Coordinator Fany Kuiru Castro will present the 80×2025 initiative during a hybrid event, titled “No Time to Spare: Averting Fossil Fuel Expansion in Earth’s Most Bioculturally Diverse Ecosystems,” from 4 to 7 p.m. ET Thursday, Sept. 21 at 109 W 39th St.

Safeguarding the Amazon: A Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Zone

Ford Foundation

Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) General Coordinator Fany Kuiru Castro will present the 80×2025 initiative during a seminar titled “Safeguarding the Amazon: A Call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Zone” from 2 to 4 p.m. ET Tuesday, Sept. 19 at the Ford Foundation. Space is very limited; please email claudia@fossilfueltreaty.org to attend.

Advancing the full implementation of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in the Amazon Basin

Belem

2-4pm

Averting the tipping point: positioning Amazonia at the center of global environmental goals and guarantee direct access to financing for Indigenous Peoples

Belem

10-12am, Plenary A at the Hangar (300 seats available).

The tipping point is here and now! Join us in an open discussion with Indigenous leaders, environmental groups, youth, academia, and civil society organizations on the Amazon tipping point and how to avert it.

Talking about Water Management in the Amazon-Water Management from the perspective of COICA

Belem

Amazon Summit: Indigenous leaders to propose a Global Pact to protect 80% of Amazonia by 2025 in Belem

Belem

The Indigenous leaders of Amazonia arrive at the Amazon Summit in Belem do Pará with their own agenda to avoid the point of no return in the Amazon. This includes actions to achieve the demarcation of around 100 million hectares of Indigenous territories as established by the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), full recognition of their rights, guaranteeing the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples, designate lands without designation, moratoriums to protect intact ecosystems, stop extractivism, make banking flows and value chains transparent, among others.

Amazon Summit: The Road from Leticia to Belem to protect 80% of the Amazon by 2025

Leticia, Amazonas

The Government of Colombia hosted in early July a technical meeting in Belem as part of the Amazon Summit to be held in August in Belem. In this context, COICA and different indigenous organizations met to define the priorities for indigenous peoples that gathered the technical meetings held by indigenous peoples in Brazil. The result of this exercise was a document with 10 points that were presented to Sonia Guajajara, Minister of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Susana Muhamad, Minister of Environment of Colombia; Marianny Romero and Josué Lorca, Venezuela's Viceminister and Minister of Environment respectively; Marciano Dasai, Minister of Land Planning and Environment of Suriname; Karina Barrera, Ecuador's Undersecretary for Climate Change; and, Rubén Alejandro Méndez, Minister of Water and Environment in Bolivia.

COP15: Amazonia against the clock: How Indigenous territories save the planet | Press Conference

Montreal

When: Dec 14, 5 pm ET
Where: COP15 Venue Media Centre, 2nd floor at the Palais des Congrès
Who: Harol Rincón Ipuchima, Coordinator of Climate Change and Biodiversity of COICA, Diego Casaes, Campaign Director at Avaaz, Cyril Kormos, Wild Heritage.org, Alicia Guzmán, co-coordinator initiative Amazonia for Life

Description: Within the framework of the work of the UN Biodiversity COP15 talks, Amazonian Indigenous leaders, researchers and representatives of environmental organizations will present key findings about How Indigenous territories save the planet, with the support of the report “Amazonia Against the Clock: Where and How to Protect 80% by 2025.” The Amazonia has reached its tipping point and current biodiversity talks need to address this scenario.

COP15: Public Launch for Call For a Global Moratorium on Industrial Activity in Primary Forests

Montreal

When: December 10, 6-7:30pm ET
Where: Intercontinental Hotel, 360 Rue Saint-Antoine O
Who: Cyril Kormos (Primary Forest Alliance/WCPA/Wild-Heritage), Sonia Guajajara (COICA), Alicia Guzman (Stand.earth), Tegan Hansen (Stand.earth), Tyson Miller (Earth Insight)

Description: A new international alliance will be calling on world leaders to include explicit protection for primary forests as part of the Global Biodiversity Framework being negotiated at the U.N.’s biodiversity meetings.

COP15: Press Conference: The Primary Forest Alliance: A Global Call for Moratorium on Industrial Activity in Primary Forests

Montreal

When: December 7, 11:30am ET
Where: COP15 Venue Media Centre, 2nd floor
Who: Cyril Kormos (Primary Forest Alliance/WCPA/Wild-Heritage), Dominick DellaSalla (Wild Heritage), Alicia Guzman (Stand.earth/Amazonia for Life: Protect 80×25), Tegan Hansen (Stand.earth)

Description: This briefing will spotlight a call being issued at COP 15 for a global moratorium on industrial activity in primary forests as an essential priority action to resolve both the biodiversity and climate change crises. This is the website for the moratorium call with strong support from civil society organizations and Indigenous federations from around the globe. Speakers will underscore the critical need and opportunity for preserving primary forests and expanding the rights and territories of Indigenous peoples.

COP27: Press Conference: “Amazonia Against the Clock”: Where and How to Protect 80% by 2025

Egypt

When: November 7 2022, 17:30-18:00 Egypt Time
Where: Press Conference Room (Luxor), Area B
Who: Alicia Bryan Ludeña (COICA), Tzeporah Berman (Stand.earth), Raul Estrada (Avaaz)

COP26: Indigenous delegates at COP26 endorse campaign demanding banks exit Amazon oil & gas

Glasgow, UK

Several Amazonian Indigenous delegates at COP26 became the latest to endorse the new Exit Amazon Oil & Gas campaign. The campaign is calling for global banks to end oil and gas financing in the Amazon rainforest.

To address the Amazon emergency and avert the tipping point, Indigenous peoples are leading efforts to call for the permanent protection of the Amazon. In September, Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon launched a call and passed a resolution to protect 80% of the Amazon by 2025 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. The call continues here at COP26 to inform global government and private sector policies on the Amazon, including a call on global financial firms to end financing for extractive industrial activity in the Amazon.

NYC Climate Week 2022: Amazonia Against the Clock

NYC

The loss of Amazonian ecosystems impacts the planet and all forms of life and, in an inverse relationship, climate change affects the ways of life of indigenous peoples, their cultural and linguistic diversity, health and food security, and threatens to make up to 1 milllion species extinct. Expanding indigenous rights and territories is a global imperative that can mitigate the climate and biodiversity crisis as 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is on Indigenous homelands10. The international and national climate and biodiversity frameworks have systematically omitted the role of indigenous peoples, the knowledge systems that build their worldview and their values, preventing humanity from informing policy with ancient practices to combat climate change.

This research, developed since 2021 by the
Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-environmental Information (RAISG) within the framework of the Initiative “Amazonia for Life: Protect 80% by 2025” with data from 1985 to 2020, yields a set of findings whose objective is to inform and guide global and national policy to achieve the protection of at least 80% of the Amazon by 2025. This report presents the main results based on updated information up to 2020 to provide a regional baseline that will allow transparent measurement of progress of this proposal. A detailed analysis at the national level will complement this analysis.

Panelists:
Carlos Nobre, Science Panel for the Amazonia
Marlene Quintanilla, Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (Bolivia)-RAISG
Gregorio Mirabal, Coordinador General, COICA
Alicia Guzmán Leon, subdirectora Programa Amazonia, Stand.earth

Moderator:
Yvette Sierra, editora Mongabay America Latina

NYC Climate Week 2021: Amazonia For Life: Protect 80% by 2025

NYC

The latest science shows that the Amazon rainforest is in danger of flipping toward a savanna, due to extractive activities, like oil and gas exploitation, development of road infrastructure, and agricultural activity. But we still have time to avert this tipping point. That’s why COICA (Coordinating Body of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin) & a group of supporting organizations are pushing for a much more ambitious & urgent protection goal for the Amazon: 80% by 2025.

This webinar brings together a relevant group of panellists to discuss this initiative and contributes to the discussion with an evidence-based analysis about the lands that should become protected or sustainably managed, and the range of solutions at hand to achieve a sustainable pathway for the Amazon, meeting climate goals at the same time.

NYC Climate Week 2021: The Urgent Need for an Amazon Exclusion

NYC

The Amazon is home to thousands of Indigenous and frontline communities, and critical to global climate regulation. Yet due to the continued financing of industrial oil and gas activity in the region from major European and American banks, the rainforest is now at a tipping point, poised to become a climate change accelerator as it converts from being one of the world’s largest carbon sinks to a carbon emitter.

Similarly to Indigenous activists who successfully campaigned for major banks to exclude financing for oil drilling in the Arctic, Indigenous leaders and environmental activists are now calling on banks to immediately adopt an Amazon Exclusion policy: a commitment to end financing for any oil and gas activity in the Amazon biome, in line with the need for a global shift out of fossil fuels. Hear from Indigenous leaders and environmental activists about their push for an urgent adoption of an Amazon Exclusion policy from the world’s leading financial institutions.

NYC Climate Week: COVID & the Amazon Uncontacted Peoples

NYC

On May 26th, the Congress Commission of Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, Environment and Ecology (CPAAAAE) approved the modificacion of the Law 28736 that aims at the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in a situation of Isolation and initial contact (PIACI). Hosted by the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative (ASHI), join us to learn from an eclectic team of experts, Indigenous leaders and international organizations, the opportunities that the PIACI Law can bring to the Amazon Basin.

NYC Climate Week 2020: Closing the Oil Finance Loopholes

NYC

A new report released on August 12th by North America-based environmental organizations Stand.earth and Amazon Watch details how European banks are financing the trade of controversial oil from the Amazon Sacred Headwaters region in Ecuador to international destinations in the U.S. such as California. Join us to learn from our experts, how research can become the first step to shift corporate behaviour.

NYC Climate Week 2020: An Indigenous Vision for a Just Transition

NYC

Spanning more than 74 million acres (30 million hectares) of largely intact tropical rainforest in Ecuador and Peru, the Sacred Headwaters region boasts the highest concentration of biodiversity in all of the Amazon and in the world. Hosted by the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative (ASHI), join us to learn from a group of Indigenous and environmental leaders, about the opportunities that the ASHI brings to the Amazon Basin.

NYC Climate Week 2020: Debt for Nature to Save the Amazon

NYC

The pandemic crisis has caused a global contraction of economic activity, deepening the debt crisis already afflicting many countries. In response, there are growing international calls for a suspension or cancellation of debt repayments along with efforts to address social and economic inequality. Hosted by Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative (ASHI), this panel will explore issues arising from the current crisis, the challenges facing the Amazon region, and the potential for solutions that address the interests of its people and safeguard the Amazon’s contribution to the wellbeing of the Earth and its climate.

IUCN Congress: How to protect 80% by 2025? | Webinar

Marseille

The Amazonia is a megadiverse region with much to contribute in the context of climate change, biodiversity goals, and equity. In this webinar we will present an Amazonian perspective regarding the current status of the rainforest, biodiversity, threats and measures that will help inform global, national, and local policy to achieve 80% protection of the region as an immediate mitigation strategy for the planet.

In this context, we identify an opportunity to broaden the perspective of strategies that contribute to the protection of the biocultural diversity and the role of indigenous peoples in protecting vast natural areas of the Amazon region for centuries. The results of our research seek to support the call of indigenous leaders to strengthen the participation of global stakeholders to avert an imminent tipping point that will trigger climate chaos.

IUCN Congress: Global Digital Action

Join hundreds of people around the world to support the call of indigenous leader to protect 80% of the Amazon rainforest or Amazonia by 2025. You bring your voice and solidarity, we’ll bring you opportunities to join in on the collective action. See you there!

IUCN Congress: Indigenous Territories in the Amazon Basin: Solutions Based on People and Nature | COICA Panel

Marseille

Based on solid evidence of the contribution of indigenous peoples to the conservation of biodiversity, forests, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, indigenous leaders from the Amazon present a vision based on local solutions, self-government, ancestral knowledge, and life stewardship in the world’s largest forest.

IUCN Congress: Global Launch Press Conference

Marseille

Indigenous leaders of the Amazon Basin will present the Initiative Amazonia for Life: protect 80% by 2025 to the international community. This initiative is a call to establish a global agreement for the permanent protection of 80 percent of the Amazon rainforest by 2025 in order to avert crossing a tipping point of no return for the Amazon basin and the peoples who call it home.

IUCN Congress: World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature

Marseille

The World Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nature (IP Summit) aims to unite the voices of indigenous peoples from around the world to raise awareness that enhanced measures are required to protect the rights of indigenous peoples and their roles as stewards of nature.

The Summit will highlight and share learning about the contributions of indigenous peoples to sustaining biodiversity, combating climate change and ensuring sustainable development.

Together, participants will define a set of key proposals that will be open to statements of commitment and support from States, international organizations, civil society and other stakeholders of the wider conservation community.

COP 26: Amazon Exclusion Press Conference

Glasgow, Scotland

Fossil fuels are the largest drivers of climate change. Oil and gas companies cut into prime rainforest, paving the way for other extractive industries to further damage the biome. They lead to devastating spills that poison local water supplies and endanger local communities, and further the climate crisis by dumping toxic carbon emissions into the atmosphere when consumed.

To address the Amazon emergency and avert the tipping point, Indigenous peoples are leading efforts to call for the permanent protection of the Amazon. In September, Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon launched a call and passed a resolution to protect 80% of the Amazon by 2025 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. The call continues here at COP26 to inform global government and private sector policies on the Amazon, including a call on global financial firms to end financing for extractive industrial activity in the Amazon.