20 November 2025

Daily Programme

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

Thursday, 20 November 2025

10:00am – 11:50am

Global Fire Management Hub: Linking Indigenous-led Fire Management with Public Policy
These sessions highlight the role of the Global Fire Management Hub in advancing Integrated Fire Management by connecting Indigenous fire stewardship, national policy development and implementation.

• 10:00am – 11:00am: Session 1
  From traditional practice to global policy: Indigenous Peoples and fire stewardship (Fire Hub / FAO)
  Indigenous fire stewardship supports biodiversity, landscape health, and climate adaptation. The session shows how traditional fire practices shape sustainable Integrated Fire Management and identifies opportunities to embed Indigenous leadership in national and global strategies.
  Key message: Indigenous-led fire management is essential to achieving climate-resilient landscapes and must be integrated into fire governance frameworks.
• 11:00am – 11:50am: Session 2
  Turning policy into practice: Advancing Integrated Fire Management across countries (Fire Hub / FAO)
  This session examines how countries develop and operationalize Integrated Fire Management policies. Examples from Brazil, Australia, and the Latin America Model Forest Network demonstrate that robust governance, coherent policy frameworks, and long-term capacity building are key to reducing wildfire risks.
  Key message: Integrated Fire Management succeeds when policy frameworks are coherent, evidence-based, and supported by strong national coordination.
• Read the concept note.

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Safeguarding Primary Forests in a fiery world (IUCN)
This session presents scientific evidence on rising wildfire threats to primary forests in the Amazon, boreal regions and the Congo Basin, and discusses how drought, degradation and disease interact with fire risk. It highlights how integrated fire management, Indigenous stewardship and strong policy frameworks support the protection of these irreplaceable ecosystems.
Key message: Safeguarding primary forests requires coordinated global action that links science, traditional knowledge and robust governance to address growing wildfire risks.

• Read the concept note.

1:45pm – 3:15pm

Africa’s green horizon: Scaling restoration and afforestation for economy, livelihoods, and climate resilience (IUCN, GIZ)
The session showcases Africa’s leadership in forest landscape restoration, highlighting major initiatives such as AFR100, the Green Legacy Initiative, and the Great Green Wall. It explores how restoration improves livelihoods, biodiversity, and climate resilience, and stresses the need for long-term, future-proof financing involving public, private and community actors.
Key message: Large-scale, community-driven restoration strengthens livelihoods and resilience, and requires sustained financing, strong governance, and inclusive partnerships.

• Read the concept note.

CANCELLED

3:30pm – 4:30pm

Forest, data, and climate action: Delivering on the Paris goals (INPE)
This event presents advances in Brazil’s forest monitoring systems, particularly new capabilities for tracking deforestation, degradation, restoration and fire impacts. It highlights how triangular cooperation, AI-enabled analysis, and open satellite data strengthen policy implementation and support global climate and forest goals.
Key message: Transparent and advanced forest monitoring is essential to halting forest loss, enabling accountability, and delivering on the Paris Agreement.

• Read the concept note.