COP30 - Greening Achilles’ heel sectors: Possibilities and barriers to climate policies in Latin American primary industry sectors

Most Latin American countries also have large export-oriented primary industries like fossil-fuel extraction, mining, and industrial agriculture. Climate policy changes in these sectors are needed for a credible Latin American contribution to the global green transition. However, in sectors like mining and agriculture, continued production and growth is also important for green technology and food security, making it important to better understand how sectoral actors, governments, knowledge communities, and civil society can work together for just green transitions in the sectors. We are gathering researchers, representatives from the business sector, civil society, and negotiators to discuss and share views around barriers and opportunities for climate policymaking in the current context, with a special focus on Brazil, industrial agriculture, mining and tropical forests.

Panel with:

• Solveig Aamodt, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
• Cristina Inoue, Radboud University, Netherlands, and University of Brasilia
• Roberta Peixoto Ramos, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Brazil office
• Bjørn Kjetil Mauritzen, Head of Sustainability, Hydro
• Reporter Brazil (TBC)
• Moderator: Christian Bjørnæs, Communications director, CICERO.