Igarapé Institute releases publication with recommendations for COP Roadmaps

New Global Futures Bulletin calls for zero deforestation at the center of climate action

The global race toward the energy transition must go hand in hand with the commitment to end deforestation. This is the central message of the new publication by the Igarapé Institute, “Towards a Roadmap to End Deforestation: Inputs and Considerations.” The Global Futures Bulletin presents recommendations on governance, implementation and international cooperation aimed at better aligning climate and nature agendas.

Forests are strategic assets for containing global warming in the short term and supporting the expansion of renewable energy, the report argues. This year, Brazil’s COP30 presidency is expected to present the international community with two Roadmaps to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement—one focused on forests and the other on the energy transition.

Ensuring progress will require action on three fronts simultaneously: transitioning away from fossil fuels, achieving zero deforestation, and scaling up nature-based solutions. The publication also highlights the beginning of a new phase of the global climate agenda: the implementation cycle.

The report emphasizes how Brazil’s experience in tackling environmental crime can help inspire countries to move national roadmaps and plans from commitment to implementation. Initiatives such as the Forest Code, the Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm), the Amazon Fund, and satellite monitoring of land use by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) illustrate this experience.

In the spirit of the collective effort highlighted during COP30 preparations, the publication argues that a Roadmap focused on zero deforestation should engage civil society, governments and the private sector. It also outlines why the roadmap to be presented by Brazil’s COP presidency should formally enter the UN climate negotiation process at COP31 and be followed up in future Conferences of the Parties.

The Global Futures Bulletin also explores how multilateral cooperation can serve as a tool to mobilize, coordinate and catalyze actions that consolidate the fight against deforestation as a long-term state policy.

In this context, tackling environmental crime should be treated as a starting point, alongside stronger governance and integrity mechanisms.