Forests-based actions have a significant climate change mitigation potential, but the long-term impacts of climate change threaten the capacity of forests to sequester and store carbon over long time-periods. As forests receive renewed and well-earned attention at COP30 as a high-priority climate solution, this event will explore forest-based climate solutions that align forest mitigation, resilience and adaptation to climate change, while contributing to national development objectives. The event will discuss the role of resilient forest-based ecosystems for lasting carbon sequestration, and concrete governance solutions at the national and international level to align forest mitigation, and climate resilience and adaptation.
Objectives
- As forests receive renewed and merited attention at COP30, this event seeks to place resilience and adaptation centrally in the discussion around forests.
- Furthermore, the event seeks to identify concrete governance-related actions to ensure that forest-based mitigation actions does not leave adaptation and resilience behind.
Moderator
TBC
Speakers
- Amy Duchelle. Senior Forestry Officer, Team Leader Forests & Climate / FAO.
- Maria Margarita Gutierrez Arias. Policy Advisor for COP16 Presidency on climate change and biodiversity synergies under the UNFCCC process.
- Maria José Sanz. Scientific Director / Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3).
- Félix Romero. Biodiversity Foundation Director / Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge / Spain.