How to support real forest solutions — and avoid false ones

The Amazon forest is proof that real solutions come from the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, and it is urgent they receive direct access to climate resources, a central theme of COP30.

For millennia, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities have developed knowledge and countless practices that protect and sustain entire ecosystems. With the worsening climate and biodiversity crises, acknowledging and respecting these practices are even more urgent.