Press Room: COP30 | Delivering Finance, Land Rights and Recognition to Forest Peoples

Vigil at COP30 Honors Guarani Kaiowá Indigenous Leader Killed in Weekend Attack, Highlighting Ongoing Risks Faced by Land Defenders

• Press release (English)

• Press release (Portuguese)

Fact sheet [Link]

Reports and studies

• The Importance of Protected Areas in Reducing Jurisdictional Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (Environmental Defense Fund, October 2025)

• Forest Declaration Assessment 2025 (Climate Focus, October 2025)

• Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status (Nature, September 2025)

Spokespeople available for interviews

• Kleber Karipuna (Portuguese) is an Indigenous leader of the Karipuna people from Amapá. Kleber is one of the Executive Coordinators of the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), representing the Brazilian Amazon through the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB). Kleber is also Co-Chair to the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities. 

• Juan Carlos Jintach (English and Spanish) is the current Executive Secretary of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities -GATC, and belongs to the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. He is a member of the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers of Ecuador (FICSH).

• Steve Schwartzman (English and Portuguese) is Associate Vice President for Tropical Forests at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), leading work on economic incentives for large-scale forest protection. For more than 30 years, he has worked in the Brazilian Amazon with Indigenous communities, governments, and the private sector to reduce deforestation. 

  ARCHIVES

• 70+ Organizations at COP 30 Call on Governments Worldwide to Establish "Fossil-Free Zones" to Protect Forests and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities [Link to release]

• PRESS RELEASE: Global Indigenous Strike Pressures COP30 to Recognize Land Rights and Guarantee Full Participation in Climate Decisions [Link to release]

• Arrival of Amazon Flotilla in Belem

  • Media Room: https://amazonflotilla.quipa.org/media-room-2/

    • Password: CaravanaMedios1.2

  November 10 Indigenous Peoples Press Conference - Blue Zone

  • Media advisory

  COP30 Finance Pledges

  • Press release

  • Two-page explainer of both pledges

  • Explainer: COP30 Intergovernmental Land Tenure Commitment

  • Registration link for WhatsApp broadcast group for reporters covering COP30

  • Pre-COP briefing (October 22, 2025)

    • RECORDING: Embargoed COP30 Briefing: Delivering Finance and Land Rights to Forest Peoples

      • Transcript (English)

      • Transcript (Portuguese)

      • Transcript (Spanish)

      • Media advisory (English)

      • Aviso de prensa (Español)

      • Aviso à imprensa (Português)

Fact sheet [Link]

Reports and studies

• Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation (Nature, July 2025)

Spokespeople available for interviews

• Martha Rosero-Peña, Ph.D. (English and Spanish), is the Social Inclusion Director at Conservation International and co-author of the study, "Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation."

• Jose Luis Rengifo (Spanish) is the director of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN), a Colombian-based Afro-descendant organization focused on land rights and recognition of Afro-descendant Peoples.

• Denildo “Bico” Rodrigues de Moraes (Portuguese) is an environmental manager, social activist, and executive coordinator of the National Coordination of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (CONAQ), one of Brazil's leading organizations defending the rights of quilombola communities.

Fact sheet [Link]

Reports and studies

• Metal mining is a global driver of environmental change (Nature, July 2025)

Spokespeople available for interviews

• Bryan Bixcul (SIRGE)

• Miguel Vargas Delgado (CEJIS)

• Kudakwashe Manjonjo (Power Shift Africa)

• Melissa Marengo (NRGI)