Coalition at COP 30 - Coalizão Brasil

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Towards the Global Climate Transition

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 30), to be held in Belém, represents a historic opportunity for Brazil. As president of the summit, the country will be able to show the world how the land-use sector — responsible for 13 to 21% of greenhouse gas emissions over the past decade — is decisive in tackling the climate crisis.

This sector holds some of the most cost-effective mitigation opportunities, such as reducing deforestation, restoring ecosystems, and expanding sustainable agriculture. Brazil already has experience and concrete results in these areas — and can present them as global benchmarks.

For the Brazilian Coalition, the success of the conference will not be measured by declarations, but by the ability to turn commitments into real implementation. This means mobilizing new financial flows, strengthening international cooperation, expanding nature-based solutions, and ensuring that the transition is just and inclusive.

Coalition Proposals

With the publication “Proposals for a Global Climate Transition in the Land-Use Sector”, the Coalition puts forward ten concrete measures, structured around three pillars of the COP 30 Action Agenda:

Sustainable Management of Forests, Oceans and Biodiversity

Proposal 1: Boost investments to control and reverse deforestation and forest degradation

Increase investments, align public policies, and mobilize international partnerships to reduce deforestation and restore forests, including mechanisms such as REDD+ and the Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF).

Proposal 2: Promote large-scale landscape and forest restoration

Include restoration targets in NDCs, expand international financing for the activity, and strengthen monitoring and control of deforestation in secondary vegetation areas.

Proposal 3: Incorporate integrated actions for wildfire prevention and control

Adopt real-time monitoring and early warning systems, carry out awareness campaigns for rural producers, and conduct intelligence operations against environmental organized crime.

Proposal 4: Expand mechanisms for payments for ecosystem services (PES)

Value and compensate conservation and restoration efforts, encourage private sector participation in PES programs, and provide legal certainty for projects.

Proposal 5:: Strengthen supply chain traceability

Integrate robust traceability mechanisms into public policies and business practices, ensuring transparency and deforestation-free supply chains.

Transformation of Agriculture and Food Systems

Proposal 6: Restore degraded lands and expand low-carbon and regenerative agricultural systems

Integrate restoration into agricultural and land-use policies; scale up agroforestry systems, planted forest management, and silviculture with native species; and promote regenerative practices such as no-till farming, crop rotation, integrated crop-livestock-forestry (ICLF), pasture management, and bio-inputs.

Proposal 7: Develop more resilient, adaptive and sustainable food systems

Strengthen public policies supporting sociobiodiversity and smallholders; reduce on-farm emissions (including fertilizer management, soil conservation, agroecological systems); expand markets for sustainable food; integrate food systems into large-scale climate finance; reduce food waste; and foster circular economy practices on farms.

Catalysts and Accelerators (Finance, Technology and Training)

Proposal 8: Define global standards for sustainable agricultural finance

Align clear and verifiable metrics (adapted to tropical contexts) to guide policies and credit; incorporate climate risks and opportunities into credit assessments; and channel resources toward low-emission, resilient, and nature-positive food systems.

Proposal 9: Recognize the bioeconomy as a global strategy for sustainable development

Accelerate support for the bioeconomy through traditional investment instruments, innovative financial tools, supportive policies, and international cooperation; and align strategies for its integration into global climate and nature goals.

Proposal 10: Allocate at least 50% of climate finance to adaptation

Fulfill Article 9.4 of the Paris Agreement by rebalancing financial flows currently concentrated in mitigation; ensure predictable resources for developing countries to strengthen resilience and protect productive and social systems in the face of the climate crisis.