COP30 UN Climate Conference

The 30th UN Climate Change Conference, COP30, organised by the United Nations Organisation (UN), will be held from 10 to 21 November 2025 in Belém, Brazil. Like every year, it will bring together the signatory countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 

This marks the tenth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement, signed at COP21, the main aim of which is to limit climate warming, obliging member countries to re-think (or redefine) their long-term economic and social strategies, so as to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that cause that climate warming.  

CIRAD will be at the event as an observer of the talks, and will be organising several side-events with partners from France, Europe and the global South.

CIRAD's participation in the blue zone at COP30

Three basins, one vision: uniting major scientific projects to place forests and wetlands at the heart of climate and biodiversity solutions

Tuesday 11 November, 9:30-10:30, France Pavilion, side event organised by CFBBA and OFVI

Promoting current structuring and innovative scientific projects in the Amazon and the Congo Basin and fostering new, inclusive synergies between forest basins for increased sharing, efficacy and impact.

• With the participation of Géraldine Derroire, CIRAD researcher.

Agriculture and food systems. Vital transformations in response to climate change 

Tuesday 11 November, 16:45-18:15, Francophonie Pavilion

• With the participation of Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD researcher.

The agriculture-health nexus: cultivating sustainable futures for humans, the planet and biodiversity

Thursday 13 November, 16:00-17:00, France Pavilion, side event organised by CIRAD, INRAE and the PREZODE initiative

Recognising the strong interdependence between food production and health, this conference will focus on prevention, resilience and biodiversity protection, and encourage inter-sector collaboration to build healthier, more sustainable food systems for all.

What are the key ingredients for North–South collaboration on forest conservation?

Thursday 13 November, 13:15-14:45, UNFCCC Pavilion, room 9, side event co-organised by CIRAD

At a time when mitigation and adaptation goals must be revised upwards and when increased climate funding is expected, forest management is crucial. Where do things stand? Implementation aspects  (carbon sinks, biodiversity, inclusivity, collaborative approaches) will be looked at from a North/South perspective.

• With the participation of Emma Jagu Schippers, CIRAD researcher.

Regenerative agriculture for healthy soil and healthy diets

Thursday 13 November, 14:45-15:45 - UNFCCC Pavilion 

• With the participation of Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD researcher. 

Integration between Brazil, Guyana and France

Friday 14 November, 9:00-10:00 - UFPA/Youth Climate Leaders Pavillon 

• With the participation of Géraldine Derroire, CIRAD researcher.

Integrating climate action into livestock production in the context of multiple livestock systems: the role of science, markets, policies, and metrics

Friday 14 November, 12:00-13:00, FAO Pavilion, side event organised by FAO and CGIAR

In this event, the goal is to bring together multiple stakeholders to discuss how collaborative work can integrate climate action into livestock production, while producing nutritious food and addressing food insecurity, accounting for the uniqueness of livestock systems in different regions of the world. 

• With the participation of Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD researcher. 

Unlocking climate, biodiversity and food synergies through community-led land actions 

Saturday 15 November, 16:45-18:15, UNFCCC Pavilion, room 6, side event organised by CIRAD, IRD and IDLO

Global agendas increasingly call for integrated responses to climate, biodiversity, and food security challenges. However, operationalising this integration remains a major gap. Our side event will focus on land-based solutions that address the nexus between climate, biodiversity, and food security.

• With the participation of  René Poccard Chapuis and Amanda Purger, CIRAD researchers.

Living forest labs in the tropical Americas: how indigenous peoples and local and traditional communities defend, regenerate and reinvent their forests

Tuesday 18 November, 14:00-15:30, France Pavilion, side event organised by CIRAD in partnership with IRD

The event will promote community initiatives in Brazil and Guatemala, set up by indigenous peoples and local and traditional communities with the aim of conserving, managing and restoring vulnerable forest ecosystems and territories. We are organising a discussion panel to highlight the support France is providing to such community models, which are real living forest labs in the tropical Americas, to boost their action in favour of tropical forest ecosystem resilience and climate justice.
The event will also include a presentation of the Manifesto for forest restoration and life in the Amazon, by the Refloramaz action research group.

• With the participation of Emilie Coudel and Marie Ange Ngo Bieng, CIRAD researchers.

Assessment of and prospects for the "4 per 1000" international initiative and illustration of the importance of sustainable soil management for operationalising climate-biodiversity-water-sustainable food-health synergies, with dry zones as a case study

Wednesday 19 November, 16:00-17:30, France Pavilion, wide event organised by the "4 per 1000" initiative and IRD

The recent IPBES thematic assessment report on interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health highlights solutions to boost synergies, notably sustainable land and soil management, as a central element. Ten years after the launch of the "4 per 1000" international initiative (soils for food security and climate), the event is intended to illustrate the IPBES report by looking back at the initiative's first decade.

• With the participation of Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD researcher.

CIRAD's participation in the green zone

Using Earth observation data to benefit the environment

Monday 10 November, 14:00-15:45, French Guiana (CTG) Pavilion, side event organised by CIRAD, CNES, CNRS, IRD and the University of French Guiana

• With the participation of Ariane Mirabel, CIRAD researcher.

Integrated management of fires, production and forests in Paragominas, Pará state

Tuesday 11 November, 10:30-11:20, Pará State Pavilion, Miritizeiro room, side event organised by the Earth Innovation Institute

Further information to follow.

Intelligence and land use planning in the Amazon

Tuesday 11 November, 12:30-13:20, Pará State Pavilion, Castanheira room, side event organised by CIRAD

The aim of this event is to facilitate an exchange of experiences between users and designers of territorial intelligence tools, in the contrasting territories of the Amazon, to enrich experiences and improve tools, hence generating qualitative advantages in terms of managing the territories concerned and designing new policies and collective organisations in the region.

• With the participation of René Poccard-Chapuis, CIRAD researcher.

Towards zero deforestation in the Amazon: national commitments, international policy and territorial challenges

Tuesday 11 November, 13:30-14:20, Pará State Pavilion, Seringueira room, side event organised by CIRAD

The aim of this event is to promote policy and technical dialogue between SEMA-Pará (Brazil), DAPG-Guaviare (Colombia) and European Union representatives aimed at reconciling sustainability, economic and sovereignty in the light of calls for zero deforestation in the Amazon. The Amazonian participants on the panel are institutional representatives from territories supported by the TerrAmaz programme.

• With the participation of Marie Gabrielle Piketty, CIRAD researcher.

Role of women and sustainable solutions in family farming in Paragominas, thanks to the Rural Delas movement

Thursday 13 November, 11:30-12:20, Pará State Pavilion, Miritizeiro room, side event organised by the Paragominas rural producers' union

Further information to follow.

Vegetation carbon and soil carbon in the Amazon: an integrated approach for sustainable territories

Friday 14 November, 15:00-16:30, French Guiana (CTG) Pavilion, side event organised by CIRAD, INRAE and IRD

Promotion of initiatives already rolled out in French Guiana, Brazil and elsewhere, based on solid scientific references. The aim is to strengthen regional partnerships and foster the dissemination of sustainable practices.

• With the participation of Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD researcher.

Guidelines for the future of sustainable Amazonian cities: the move towards a low-carbon economy in Paragominas

Saturday 15 November, 14:30-15:20, Pará State Pavilion, Seringueira room, side event organised by Paragominas City Council

Further information to follow.

The ways of the forest: innovation, the bioeconomy and climate action in the Amazon 

Tuesday 18 November, 11:30-12:20, Pará State Pavilion, Castanheira room, event organised by the Pará Micro and Small Business Support Service – Sebrae/PA

• With the participation of Emilie Coudel, CIRAD researcher.

Green livestock breeding and sustainable funding in the Amazon

Tuesday 18 November, 10:00-16:00, Bank of Amazonia space

The Bank of Amazonia, in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA), the Brazilian Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA), AFD, CIRAD and EMBRAPA, is organising Green Breeding Day, with the aim of presenting case studies, financial instruments and public policies geared towards the productive transition of livestock operations in the Amazon region.

• With the participation of René Poccard-Chapuis, CIRAD researcher.

Biocultural restoration and the forest seed chain: know-how, art and community governance of living forests

Wednesday 19 November, 12:30-13:20, Pará State Pavilion, Miritizeiro room, side event organised by IDEFLOR-Bio

Further information to follow.

Collaborative meeting of AMABIO partners: articulating the socio-bioeconomic system in Pará

Friday 21 November, 11:30-12:30, Pará State Pavilion, Castanheira room, event organised by Expertise France

• With the participation of René Poccard-Chapuis, CIRAD researcher.

CIRAD's participation in the AgriZone

CIRAD scientists will be participating in a series of events in the AgriZone, organised by EMBRAPA.

Fields of value: regarding livestock farmers who work for nature

Monday 10 November 2025, 14:00-15:15, Auditorium 1, event organised by FAO, LEAP, GASL and MAPA

This event will highlight the positive and negative services provided by livestock systems. As regards climate change, it will contribute to including greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems in a wider assessment of ecosystems that will also take account of carbon absorption within a broad range of ecosystem services provided by livestock operations.

• With the participation of Vincent Blanfort, CIRAD researcher.

Science, communities and pan-Amazonian works for sustainability

Tuesday 11 November, 12:40-13:55, Auditorium 4, event organised by CIRAD, EMBRAPA and Rede Territórios Amazônicos TEAMAZ

The aim of this event is to support the creation of pan-Amazonian networks linking communities, scientists and government institutions, by fostering regional dialogue and local action in order to integrate scientific knowledge and traditional know-how, fight climate change and promote sustainable development in the Amazon.

• With the participation of René Poccard-Chapuis, CIRAD researcher.

Launch of the "Trees of Brazil" game

Thursday 13 November, 9:00-12:00, Auditorium 3, event organised by CIRAD, EMBRAPA and ESALQ

• With the participation of Pierre Marraccini, CIRAD researcher and CIRAD Regional Director for Brazil and Southern Cone countries

Making forests and populations more climate-resilient: roundtable on science and innovation in this field

Saturday 15 November, 11:20-12:35, Auditorium 2, event organised by IUFRO and EMBRAPA 

This roundtable, organised jointly by IUFRO and EMBRAPA, aims to highlight the way in which advanced forest and agroforest science can inform and stimulate effective climate resilience strategies. It will also enable debate on the importance of international collaboration and of integrating scientific knowledge and traditional/local know-how when drafting sustainable, equitable climate operations.

• With the participation of Marie Ange Ngo Bieng, CIRAD researcher.

Towards equitable socioenvironmental restoration: the central role of traditional peoples and communities

Saturday 15 November, 15:20-16:35, Auditorium 2, side event organised by CIRAD, Rede Territórios Amazônicos TEAMAZ, EMBRAPA eastern Amazonia, UFPA and UFRA

This event intends to promote the diversity of voices, know-how and practices that could inspire new socio-environmental pacts, which are vital for responding to climate change and guaranteeing social and environmental justice in the Amazon and beyond. This seminar also fits into the discussions within the Amazonian territories platform (TEAMAZ), building bridges with other networks and partners in Brazil and worldwide.

Serious game based on babaçu nut gathering  

Saturday 15 November, 15:20-16:35, Auditorium 4, side event organised by IRD

• Avec la participation de Charlotte Maquet, chercheuse au Cirad. 

Towards zero deforestation in Amazonian territories: policies, tools and solutions

Sunday 16 November, 11:20-12:35, Auditorium 1, event organised by CIRAD, the French Embassy in Brazil and SEMAS Pará

The event should serve to promote policy and technical dialogue between institutions in Amazonian countries and European Union representatives about solutions aimed at reconciling sustainability, economic and sovereignty in the light of calls for zero deforestation in the Amazon.

• With the participation of Marie Gabrielle Piketty et René Poccard Chapuis, CIRAD researchers.

Rural communities in the Amazon: what roles in response to climate change?

Sunday 16 November, 13:30-13:55, Arena

The aim of this side event is to promote dialogue between rural communities, municipal, regional and national governments, universities, NGOs and the private sector in Amazonian countries, to discuss community organisation strategies, governance and judicial approaches in municipal territories aimed at boosting climate resilience, mitigating emissions and ensuring the socioeconomic inclusion of rural communities, by prioritizing integrated territorial management.

Soil and climate health: diversity, conservation and technologies for restoring ecosystems in the Amazon

Monday 17 November, 16:40-17:55, Auditorium 3, event organised by Rede Territórios Amazônicos TEAMAZ, UFPA and UFRA
Further information to follow.

Carbon and soil health for the future of agriculture

Tuesday 18 November, 14:00-15:15, Auditorium 2, event organised by the "4 per 1000" initiative and the International Research Consortium on Soil Carbon
Further information to follow.

Family farming to tackle climate change: challenges and lessons from the global South

Thursday 20 November, 10:00-11:15, Auditorium 2, side event organised by CIRAD and UFGRS
Further information to follow.

CIRAD's participation in an event at the Amazonian Institute of Family Farming Systems, Federal University of Pará

Participatory agroforestry action to exchange experiences of restoration in Amazonian territories

Thursday 13 November, 9:00-12:00, Dona Dijê room, event organised by CIRAD, UFPA, UFRA and Refloramaz

• With the participation of Emilie Coudel, CIRAD researcher. 

Financial mechanisms, satellites and algorithms: innovations to preserve forests

Monday 17 November, 9:00–11:30, UFPA, G International Block, Room 2

•  With the participation of Marie Ange Ngo Bieng, CIRAD researcher.