Socio-environmental organizations promote seventh debate in preparation for the Amazon Summit

Amazon Summit

Amazon Summit will take place in August in Belém, Pará

Manaus (AM) – Next Monday (17th), a group of socio-environmental organizations from the Amazon will hold the last meeting in the series of dialogues with Pan-Amazonian countries on a sustainable and fair climate agenda for all people. The debate will take place between representatives of Brazil, at 2 pm (Manaus time), with free broadcast on the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS) YouTube channel: youtube.com/@fasamazonia.

Entitled “Brazil represented at the Amazon Summit”, this is the seventh meeting in preparation for the Amazon Summit, an event that will bring together the eight countries of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), on August 8 and 9 in Belém ( SHOVEL).

During the series, the countries Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia presented their demands and proposals on the subject. After the closing, the contributions and demands of civil society organizations in the Pan-Amazon will be organized in a collective letter.

The document will be delivered by representatives of the Coordinating Committee to the governments of countries in the region during the Amazon Summit.

The initiative is organized by the National Council of Extractive Populations (CNS), the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) and the National Coordination of Articulation of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS) and the Grupo of Amazon Work (GTA).

The meeting will also focus on five thematic axes:

• Participation and protection of territories, activists, civil society and forest and water peoples in the sustainable development of the Amazon;

• Health, sovereignty and food and nutrition security in the Amazon region: emergency actions and structuring policies;

• Science, technology, innovation and academic research, energy transition, mining, oil exploration: how to think about the Amazon for the future;

• Climate change, agroecology and the sociobioeconomies of the Amazon: sustainable management and new production models for regional development;

• The indigenous peoples of the Amazon: a new inclusive project for the region.

In the evaluation of the FAS Innovative Solutions Program manager, Gabriela Sampaio, the end of the series marks the beginning of more actions in favor of the ecosystem.

“We are sure that the cycle of dialogues does not end here, but continues to circulate, getting stronger and generating results capable of influencing the Amazon Summit and the upcoming events that place the Amazon at the center of the debate, including COP-28 [Conferência da ONU sobre Mudanças Climáticas] and others”,

stands out.

The event is supported by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN South) and the Governors’ Task Force for Climate and Forests (GCF Task Force).

Schedule

The group’s program foresees two more events: the pre-summit of forest peoples and civil society in the Pan-Amazon, which will be held in Manaus (AM), on August 1st and 2nd, and participation in the Amazonian Dialogues , set to take place on the 4th, 5th and 6th of August, in Belém, on the eve of the Amazon Summit.

Coordinating Committee

With the aim of strengthening the positioning and political impact of pan-Amazonian civil society, the National Council of Extractive Populations (CNS), the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) and the National Coordination of Articulation of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS) and the Amazon Working Group (GTA) are hosting a series of online and face-to-face events with civil society representatives from the Pan-Amazon region in preparation for the Amazon Summit.

In the end, the debates will subsidize the construction of a collective letter with the main socio-environmental proposals and recommendations. The document will be presented to the heads of state of ACTO member countries at the Amazon Summit in Belém.

Amazon Summit

In April of this year, Brazil proposed holding the “Amazon Summit” with the aim of bringing together the nine countries whose territories are part of the Amazon basin: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. The international event will be held in Belém, Pará, a city that is also a candidate to host the COP-30, in 2025. The heads of state of the eight countries that make up the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) will be present. The summit intends to elaborate a common policy for the sustainable development of the region.

*With advisory information

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