November 2025

EVENT

Earth Insight at UN Climate Conference COP30 in Belem

Earth Insight builds critical transparency tools and momentum for restricting fossil fuel, mining, and other industrial expansion threats to key ecosystems and Indigenous and local communities.

At COP30 we will be working towards:

Elevating the report we co-released on November 5 with the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC): Indigenous Peoples’ Territories and Local Communities on the Frontlines: Mapping Threats and Solutions Across the World's Largest Tropical Forests
Elevating the urgency of implementing Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ demands for land tenure and direct access to climate finance.
Expanding the toolbox of solutions for transitioning away from fossil fuels to include area-based conservation measures, such as exclusion zones or no-go zones, particularly for oil and gas.
Ensuring the Forest COP delivers a clear political agreement to implement the GST target of halting and reversing deforestation by 2030, including by providing the necessary finance.
Creating a clear process after COP30 to strengthen the role of nature in climate action.

November 2025

Event Contact

info@earth-insight.org

Media Pack

Our team in Belem

Florencia Librizzi, Deputy Director (EN, ES).

Extractive threats to Indigenous territories, Protected Areas and Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), community-based land management, other effective conservation measures (OECMs), tipping points in the Amazon and Congo basins. florencia@earth-insight.org

Juan Pablo Osornio, Engagement Director (EN, ES, FR).

Diplomatic and geopolitical landscape, global climate and nature politics, fossil fuel exclusion zones/no go zones, Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), 30x30 Target under the Global Biodiversity Framework. juanpablo.eu@earth-insight.org

Ignacio Arróniz Velasco, Senior Diplomatic Adviser (EN, ES, FR, IT).

UNFCCC politics, nature and climate synergies, fossil-free ocean, Amazon Free of Fossil Fuels (part. Colombia), EU nature and climate diplomacy, fossil fuel exclusion zones. ignacio.eu@earth-insight.org

Shayna Samuels, Press Contact, press@earth-insight.org

Events

Press conference: Indigenous Peoples’ Territories and Local Communities on the Frontlines.

Date & Time: 18 November, 11:00.
Location: Press Conference Room 2, Area D.
Description: Presentation of our latest report’s findings co-published just ahead of COP30 with the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities. The report maps threats to Indigenous Peoples territories and local communities from extractive industries, including fossil fuels, logging and mining. It also displays different solutions led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities across the world’s largest tropical forests.
Partners: Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC) & multiple regional and national Indigenous Peoples & local communities.
Earth Insight role: Co-organisers & moderation.

Audience: International, national and local media.

Strengthening Community-Based Management of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) and Climate Change

Date & Time: 11 November, 18:30 - 20:00.
Location: Blue Zone, Side Event Room 2.
Description: Official Blue Zone side event on the effectiveness of community-based management of KBAs to protect them from fossil fuel and mining threats. Local and Indigenous leaders will foster dialogue, collaboration, and action on alternative conservation strategies.
Partners: AJESH (Ajemalebu Self Help), Elizka (Ghana), COICA (Amazon basin), REPALEAC (Central Africa), AMAN (Indonesia), GATC (Global).
Earth Insight role: Co-organisers & moderation, presenting key findings from Indigenous Territories and Local Communities on the Frontlines and Closing Window of Opportunity reports.

Just Transition to Avoid Climate Hell: Fossil Fuel Projects to Cancel and Strategies to Do So

Date & Time: 13 November, 16:45 - 18:15.
Location: Blue zone, Side Event Room 4.
Description: Leaving fossil fuels in the ground is more urgent than ever. The panel will examine which projects to cancel and why, plus how to integrate equity-based analysis of the rapidly depleting global carbon budget and NDCs 3.0 to drive just climate action, with a special focus on Latin America & the Caribbean.
Partners: University of Barcelona, Institute of Energy and Environment (IEMA), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Sussex University, urgewald e.V.
Earth Insight role: Panelists.

Guardians of Climate and Nature: Defending Territories and Advancing Solutions

Date & Time: 16 November, 14:00 - 15:30.
Location: Amazon Climate Hub, Casa Arayara, R. Boaventura da Silva, 64 - Belém/PA.
Description: This event will examine threats by extractive industries such as fossil fuels and industrial logging to Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities’ rights and territories in the Amazon and wider Latin America. It will also showcase Indigenous-led solutions for conservation, climate action, and sustainable livelihoods.
Partners: Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC), Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Mesoamerican Forest Peoples Alliance (AMPB), Parliamentarians for a Fossil Free Future (PfFFF).
Earth Insight role: Co-organisers and moderation, presenting key findings from Indigenous Territories and Local Communities on the Frontlines.

Solutions Country: Redefining the Just Transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Date & Time: 18 November, 14.00-15.30.
Location: Blue Zone, Forest Pavilion.
Description: The panel will showcase the threats posed by fossil fuel extraction to the DRC’s rich biocultural areas, particularly the Green Corridor Kinshasa-Kivu, and examine their impact on human rights, community forests and the just transition in the country.
Partners: Rainforest Foundation UK, Notre Terre Sans Pétrole (DRC), CORAP (DRC).
Earth Insight role: Panelists, presenting the key findings from our recently published report Forests to Frontlines: Oil Expansion Threats in the DRC.