📋 Tender Overview
The debates at the Brazil Pavilion in the COP30 Green Zone, last Wednesday (11/19), highlighted the diversity of agendas that connect climate justice, territorial protection, integrated fire management, bioeconomy and new financing models for a just transition. Throughout the day, the Jandaira and Urucu auditoriums brought together experts, authorities and social leaders to discuss challenges and solutions that reinforce the countrys role in tackling the climate crisis.
In the Jandaira auditorium, the program addressed topics such as climate vulnerability in rural areas, coexistence with the Semiarid region and financing alternatives for the green economy. In the afternoon, debates on territorial rights, subnational REDD+ systems and forest fire prevention and response policies gained prominence, including an in-depth look at Integrated Fire Management (MIF).
Organized by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), the panel Forest Fires and Climate Change: from prevention to global action was mediated by the departments extraordinary secretary for Deforestation Control and Environmental Territorial Planning, Andre Lima, who highlighted the impact of the 2024 fires on environmental conservation indices.
If it werent for the fires in the second half of 2024, we would have recorded the lowest deforestation rate in the Amazon since 1988. This shows the magnitude of the impact of the fires on our goal of zero deforestation by 2030.
To face the situation, the government strengthened structural measures, including the issuance of seven provisional measures to improve legislation and improve the hiring of brigade members, in addition to R1.5 billion invested in prevention and combat actions. The approval of the National Integrated Fire Management Policy and the creation of the Integrated Fire Management Committee expanded coordination between public bodies, local communities and traditional people.
The Brazilian government has been implementing a significant set of measures to strengthen the fire response. I congratulate the brigade members present here, who are on the front line, he stated.
Advances and challenges of Integrated Fire Management
Afterwards, the panel Advances and challenges in the implementation of Integrated Fire Management (MIF), also from the MMA, deepened discussions on the controlled use of fire, fire prevention and appreciation of traditional practices. The moderation was by the director of Sciences at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (Ipam), Ane Alencar. The whole world is discussing integrated management networks, because prohibiting fire is not enough. It is necessary to order and govern it, he pointed out.
The president of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), Rodrigo Agostinho, emphasized that the country is experiencing a decisive moment to institutionalize the MIF as public policy. He recalled that the approval of Law No. 14,944/2024 began to break historical prejudices about the technical use of fire, often associated with environmental crimes. Even with the worsening climate, we are managing to institutionalize what needs to be done, he said.
Racial justice, feminism and community solutions
Meanwhile, the Urucu auditorium concentrated debates on racial justice, feminism, indigenous female protagonism, community tourism and energy transition. The Black Coalition for Rights, the Yanomami Kumirayoma Womens Association and international feminist movements highlighted the centrality of good living and the role of women as guardians of territories.
In the afternoon, the agendas advanced on community-based tourism, innovation in biofuels, experiences of the REM/MT Program and the impacts of environmental racism on chains such as artisanal fishing.
One of the highlights was the panel Feminist Economics for Climate Justice, mediated by Sonia Coelho, representative of the World March of Women. The debate showed how economic practices developed by women -- such as care, agroecology, solidarity economy and self-management -- are fundamental to confronting inequalities and protecting territories. Care is work and needs to be redistributed between the State, families and companies. Without public care policies and without womens economic autonomy, there will be no climate justice, reinforced the representative of the Ministry of Women, Rosane Silva.
See the complete program for the Brazil Pavilion in the Green Zone.
