CCI Partners Bringing Nature to the Fore at COP30
As UNFCCC COP30 unfolds this week, many of our partners are in Belém, sharing key messages on the importance of nature in this all-important climate change summit. These messages and more were discussed at our panel discussion hosted by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), including an address from the UK’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Rachel Kyte.
Key messages being taken to COP30 include:
Aligning negotiation commitments
RSPB is coordinating NGOs seeking to achieve good outcomes on nature-climate synergies. They are focusing on opportunities to better align action under the Rio Conventions in the agenda item on Cooperation with Other International Organisations, including aligning NCDs and NBSAPs, and to secure political commitments to halting deforestation and ecosystem degradation in political decisions coming out of the leader summit and wider COP. BirdLife International is supporting this work and leading on opportunities for securing good outcomes for ecosystems in the Global Goal on Adaptation. MPhil in Conservation Leadership alumni will also be representing their countries in the negotiations, with nature likely to be to the fore.
Highlighting the potential of ‘nature-based solutions'
Ecosystem-based approaches such as wetland and forest protection and restoration can deliver synergistic benefits for climate change mitigation and resilience, and for society. CCI partners will be showcasing project examples, and highlighting ways to ensure that approaches are genuinely effective and socially just – especially in including Indigenous peoples and local communities.
Ensuring the finance for nature-based approaches
Ensuring the finance for nature-based approaches is also critical. Through our Collaborative Initiative on Nature Finance, CCI partners are helping to build the case for transformation in business and finance sector practices, incentives and systems. In particular, we will be closely following the progress of the innovative Tropical Forest Forever Facility TFFF launched by Brazil, with its ambitions to build a major blended finance fund to support countries to leave their forests standing, with 20% to be paid directly to Indigenous People and local communities.