First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

First congress of forest basin leaders results in call for direct financing

At the world’s first global congress of Indigenous peoples and local communities from forest basins, representatives began preparations to increase direct finance to community forest conservation — especially in the run-up to the upcoming U.N. climate conference, COP30. The participants, from the Amazon, Congo and Borneo-Mekong basins, gathered May 26-30 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, and proposed that new financing pledges at the global cli…