Forest Pavilion at COP30 | Belém, Brazil

Daily Programme

All event times are listed in Belém local time (GMT-3).

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Theme: Congo Basin Day

• Read the concept note.

10:00am – 11:00am

High-level expert panel
Central African forests at the heart of global climate action: joint action, financing and prospects towards 2025-2030 (COMIFAC, CBFP, FSC, CAFI, GIZ)

11:10am – 11:40am

Mobilizing national, regional and international financial resources for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in the Congo Basin: a pathway to climate justice, biodiversity conservation and sustainable development organised by Tenure Facility (REPALEAC)

11:50am – 12:50pm

• From data to decisions: research driving climate-ready development in the Congo Basin (CIFOR-ICRAF, PANGEA/CBI, SPCB, CBSI, OFVi, WRI, CSA/CBFP)
• Forest policies in the Congo Basin (CIFOR-ICRAF, GTCR-R)
• Report launch
  State of the Forest Report 2025 (CIFOR-ICRAF, GTCR-R)

12:55pm – 1:45pm

• Strengthening environmental communication and climate diplomacy in Central Africa: follow-up to FOMADECIE 2025 (Brazzaville)
• Case study
  SUNNY project on clean energy access for refugees and host communities (RECEIAC)

2:00pm – 2:50pm

Solutions Country! Redefining the just transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is rooted in community rights (RFUK, CORAP, NTSP, Earth Insight)

• Read the concept note.

2:55pm – 3:40pm

Nature-based solutions: Putting nature back at the heart of the debate and developing innovative markets – carbon and biodiversity – as a means of combating tropical deforestation (ATIBT, TEREA)

• Read the concept note.

3:45pm – 4:45pm

Panel
Enhanced cooperation on Payment for Environmental Services (PES) in the Congo Basin /Central Africa for Development, Climate, Biodiversity & People (CAFI)
Panellist: Patrick Piemme Epie, Coordinator for Congo Basin and West Africa

5:00pm – 6:15pm

High-Level Political Dialogue (CBFP, France, COMIFAC, Germany, UK, CAFI)

• Launch and celebration
  Political Declaration of Commitment between the Central African Countries and their Partners in Favor of the Conservation and Sustainable Management of the Congo Basin Forest Ecosystems (2025-2030)
• Call for action and discussion
  The “Belem Call to Action for the Congo Basin Forests”
  Panellists: Ministers of the donor countries of the CBFP and the Ministers of the countries of Central Africa

Lead: Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC)
Co-lead: The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI)