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Iyaleta Research Association participates in COP27, presenting research on Adaptation and Loss and Damage

For the second consecutive year, the association, which researches inequalities and climate change and acts with incidence on the negotiation agendas, is present at the Conference. 

 

On November 6th, 2022 begins, the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt), and the Iyaleta Research Association follows for the second consecutive year the negotiation agendas between the Parties and national and subnational governments. This year, Iyaleta arrives to debate three major themes: Adaptation, Losses and Damages, and Climate Finance, aiming to recognize ethnic-racial, gender, and generational inequalities so that the negotiation agendas move forward in the Brazilian territory. 

During the two weeks of COP27 activities (from November 6th to 18th), the Research Association will carry out a series of actions and activities involving research launches, initiative presentations, panel coordination, and intersectional dialogues. Iyaleta will be represented by Andrêa Ferreira, researcher and epidemiologist, and Diosmar Filho, researcher and geographer – both are part of the scientific coordination; Ananda Ridart, researcher and journalist, is part of the communication coordination, and Ellen Monielle, associate researcher and international affairs. 

Besides participating as an observer in the Conference negotiations, the Research Association is part of the Managing Committee of the Brazil Climate Action Hub, a Brazilian civil society space at COP27. There, Iyaleta is coordinating three primary activities: the panels on “Ambitions and Challenges for Adaptation” and “Losses and Damages, Gender and Territorial Impacts,” to be held on November 11th. 

Following the confluence that Iyaleta has been undertaking since it participated in COP26 and the Climate Change Conference on Bonn (Germany), which involves incidence and proposition, at COP27, the research Association launched the “Summary Strategies for National Adaptation Plans: a case from Brazil” and the call for action “↓1.5°C and Zer0 Inequalities,” an initiative of Iyaleta to Parties and national and subnational governments.

“Following the paths we have taken in recent years, Iyaleta arrives at COP27 bringing more research and incidences on the Climate Change and Inequalities Agenda, reaffirming the urgency of implementing effective Adaptation actions in recognition of previous inequalities and their intersections in national territories and the need for the transversality of Gender in the Agenda and financing efforts for Loss and Damages, in contribution to the revision of the National Adaptation Plan and the NDCs targets“, Andrea Ferreira researcher and epidemiologist.

Still, in the first week of COP27, Iyaleta presents another advocacy activity related to Adaptation, with the screening of the film “Terras que Libertam – a historia dos Cupertinos” in the programming of the Cine Festival Brazil Climate Action Hub. The documentary, directed by geographer-documentary maker Diosmar Filho, reveals the contemporaneity of the Quilombola struggle for territorial and social rights, the defense of the Quilombola Territory of Vazante against Baraúnas Dam, and the freedom of the warrior Julio Cupertino – an ancestor in the Territory of Baixão Velho.

 

Paths traveled

Since 2020, Iyaleta – Research, Sciences, and Humanities has been deepening the knowledge, insights, and perspectives on climate change and inequalities in Brazilian territory. The Association is responsible for the project “Urban Legal Amazon – socio-spatial analysis of climate change,” which analyzes how the master plans of the capital cities of the Legal Amazon contribute to and deepen racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities amid the challenges of proposing actions in the face of the effects and impacts of climate change in this decade. 

Iyaleta researchers develop research, training, and technical and scientific communication in human, natural, applied, exact, and technological sciences, which impact the elimination of racial, ethnic, territorial, gender, generational, and social inequalities in the World.

Iyaleta was the only organization based in the Northeast region of Brazil that participated as an observer in the SB56 Sessions of the traditional Climate Change Conference in Bonn (Germany) from June 9 to 16, 2022. On occasion, it launched the “Summary Urban Legal Amazon – Spatial analysis of Climate Change” Iyaleta Report Vol. 03 (Portuguese and English version), which brings together the main results of studies on inequalities and climate change in the cities of Belém (Pará), Boa Vista (Roraima), Cuiabá (Mato Grosso), Macapá (Amapá), Manaus (Amazonas), Palmas (Tocantins), Porto Velho (Rondônia), São Luís (Maranhão) and Rio Branco (Acre).

In November 2021, Iyaleta was present at COP26 in Glasgow (Scotland), represented by researcher and geographer Diosmar Filho. At the event, he was part of the panel “Humanity is Unequal, Nature is a Territory to Defend” within the People’s Summit program and also participated in activities of the Brazil Climate Action Hub. 

 

Check out the entire program below: 

11/08/22 – from 17:30 to 19:00 (Egypt) / 12:30 to 14:00 (Brasilia time)

Screening of the film “TERRAS QUE LIBERTAM – stories of the Cupertinos”, in the program of the Cine Brazil Climate Action Hub

 

11/11/22 – 10 am to 12:45 pm (Egypt) / 5 am to 7:45 am (Brasilia time)

Activity “Ambitions and Challenges for Adaptation”, in the Brazil Climate Action Hub

-Panel Adaptation Policies and Cities

– Panel Strategies and Adaptation for the urgent transition of Food Systems

 

11/11/22 – 14:15 to 17:15 (Egypt) / 9:15 to 12:15 (Brasilia time)

Activity “Loss and Damage, Gender and Territorial Impacts”

-Panel Gender and Losses & Damages

-Panel Losses and Damages, Gender and Territorial Impacts