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STORY: BELEM / COP30 GUTERRES TROPICAL FORESTS
TRT: 02:10
SOURCE: COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC) / UNFCCC
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT EBC ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PORTUGUESE / NATS
DATELINE: 06 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL / FILE
FILE - EBC - BELEM, BRAZIL
1. Various shots, aerial views of COP30 venue
UNFCCC - 06 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
2. Various shots, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Secretary-General António Guterres walking together
EBC - 06 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
3. Wide shot, conference room
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President, Brazil:
“For the first time in history, countries from the global South will play a leading role in an agenda to protest tropical forests. They play an essential role in confronting climate change. They trap carbon, guarantee water flow, and protect biodiversity. Without them, we don't have water to drink or for agriculture.”
5. Zoom in, conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Tropical forests breathe life into our planet. Yet they remain under relentless assault – treated as short-term profit, not long-term value. Last year, the world lost the equivalent of 18 football fields of tropical primary forest – every minute. The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is a bold mechanism to make standing forests more valuable than cleared land – aligning conservation with opportunity, and solidarity with shared prosperity.”
7. Various shots, conference room and participants
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Without tropical forests, there is no path to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. We are dangerously close to a tipping point that could push these ecosystems beyond recovery. Crossing that line would unleash droughts, fires, and biodiversity loss on a scale humanity cannot control. We have pledged to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030. Now we must deliver. That means supporting forest nations – not as a favour, but as a shared duty.”
9. Wide shot, conference room
Secretary-General António Guterres today (6 Nov) said the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) “is a bold mechanism to make standing forests more valuable than cleared land – aligning conservation with opportunity, and solidarity with shared prosperity.”
The TFFF is an initiative to raise substantial and permanent funding from both public and private sources, aiming to provide long-term, results-based financial support to Tropical Forest Countries (TFCs) for
the conservation and restoration of their tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest (TSMBF).
Speaking at the launch of the initiative, on the sidelines of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit ahead of COP30 in Belem, Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said, “for the first time in history, countries from the global South will play a leading role in an agenda to protest tropical forests.”
Lula said tropical forests “play an essential role in confronting climate change. They trap carbon, guarantee water flow, and protect biodiversity. Without them, we don't have water to drink or for agriculture.”
For his part, the Secretary-General said, “tropical forests breathe life into our planet. Yet they remain under relentless assault – treated as short-term profit, not long-term value. Last year, the world lost the equivalent of 18 football fields of tropical primary forest – every minute.”
He said, “without tropical forests, there is no path to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. We are dangerously close to a tipping point that could push these ecosystems beyond recovery. Crossing that line would unleash droughts, fires, and biodiversity loss on a scale humanity cannot control.”
Guterres said, “we have pledged to halt and reverse forest loss by 2030. Now we must deliver. That means supporting forest nations – not as a favour, but as a shared duty.”
The Government of Brazil first presented this idea in November 2023 at COP28 of the UNFCCC
in Dubai.
The World Leaders Climate Action Summit, taking place 6 and 7 November, brings together heads of state and government, ministers, and leaders of international organizations to discuss pressing climate change challenges and commitments.
