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Official COP30 Side Event

From pledges to locally-led climate actions

We would like to invite you to join the Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) and the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) for what we expect will be a lively and grounded discussion during this “Forest COP”.

 

📅 Tuesday, 11 November 2025 | 15:00–16:30 (BRT)

📍 UNFCCC COP30 – Blue Zone, Side Event Room 7

🌳 From pledges to locally-led climate actions: gender-just Indigenous solutions for forests and climate

🎧 Online interpretation from and to English will be available for Portuguese | Spanish | French. Please bring headphones!

 

Our session will bring together Indigenous, feminist and community leaders from across Africa, Asia and Latin America - alongside policy-makers and donors - to reflect on how gender-just, locally-led approaches can help turn global pledges into real climate and forest action.

The space will encourage dialogue and exchange between the panelists. It will offer those joining the event the opportunity to hear from those leading change on the ground and from those shaping the policies and finance that can enable it. Together, we will explore what it takes to move from commitments to concrete, community-driven impact.

It will build and push forward key points and the call to action made by the GLA in their recently published Op-Ed ‘COP30 must deliver for Tropical Forests’.

We hope you can join us and be part of this exchange that aims to connect perspectives, strengthen partnerships and remind us all what is at stake when it comes to forests, climate and justice.

 

Hope to see you there!

 

The Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA)

The Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA)

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Forests for a just future

The Green Livelihoods Alliance (GLA) is a strategic partnership between Milieudefensie, Gaia Amazonas, IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL), Non-timber forest products – exchange programme (NTFP-EP), Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and Tropenbos International (TBI) with technical partners Fern and Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF). The programme is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directoraat Generaal Internationale Samenwerking (DGIS) through the DSO Power of Voices policy framework, in partnership with the Inclusive Green Growth (IGG) department. 

The GLA currently implements the Forests for a Just Future (FfJF) programme (January 2021 - December 2025) and has the long-term goal of ensuring that tropical forests and forest landscapes are sustainably and inclusively governed to mitigate and adapt to climate change, fulfil human rights and safeguard local livelihoods. It aims to increase the participation of Indigenous people and local communities (IP&LCs), including women and youth, in policy and decision making regarding their (land) rights and forest governance; and to strengthen lobby and advocacy efforts to hold governments and agro-commodity, extractives, energy and infrastructure industries accountable for deforestation and human rights violations. This programme builds on and extends the GLA Forested Landscapes for Equity programme that ran from 2016 until 2020.

The programme’s Theory of Change (ToC) takes an intersectional and gender transformative approach and revolves around three mutually reinforcing pathways of change:

  • Pathway A: Strengthening inclusive and sustainable IP&LC governance and management over increased areas of forest;
  • Pathway B: Government and agro-commodities, extractives, energy and infrastructure sectors no longer drive deforestation; and
  • Pathway C: Citizens enjoy human and women’s rights and safely participate in social movements.

To reach our goals, the alliance collaborates with over 70 civil society organisations (CSOs), IP&LCs, women’s organisations and social movements in 11 countries in South America, Africa, and Asia, as well as internationally. Recognising the risks faced by these collectives, the programme pays particular attention to ensuring the operational space and security of IP&LC leaders, CSO activists, and (women) environmental human rights defenders ((W)EHRDs). 

For more information concerning the FfJF programme, you can contact the GLA Sr. Programme coordinator Eva Duarte Davidson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

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