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Local Time

Timezone: Europe/Madrid

Date: Nov 17 2025

Time: 15:30 - 16:30

Forests-based actions have a significant climate change mitigation potential, but the long-term impacts of climate change threaten the capacity of forests to sequester and store carbon over long time-periods. As forests receive renewed and well-earned attention at COP30 as a high-priority climate solution, this event will explore forest-based climate solutions that align forest mitigation, resilience and adaptation to climate change, while contributing to national development objectives.  The event will discuss the role of resilient forest-based ecosystems for lasting carbon sequestration, and concrete governance solutions at the national and international level to align forest mitigation, and climate resilience and adaptation. 

Objectives

As forests receive renewed and merited attention at COP30, this event seeks to place resilience and adaptation centrally in the discussion around forests.

Furthermore, the event seeks to identify concrete governance-related actions to ensure that forest-based mitigation actions does not leave adaptation and resilience behind.

Moderator

Maria José Sanz. Scientific Director / Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3).

Speakers

Introduction: Pierre Brender. Programme Officer at AFOLU Unit / UNFCCC Secretariat.

Giacomo Grassi. JRC Ispra / European Commission.

Jean Ometto. Head of the Strategic Project Division at the National institute for Space Research (INPE) / Brazil.

Maria Margarita Gutierrez Arias. Independent Consultant on Forest Policy.

Félix Romero. Biodiversity Foundation Director / Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge / Spain.