Acre Working Sessions – May 22, 2025

These working sessions aim to emerge with investment and capacity building partnerships to build new forest economies across tropical forest states and provinces. A number of aspects are central to this objective, including: (1) investments (including financial and technical capacity building) that support in social inclusion and job creation and bring benefits to Indigenous and traditional populations as well as urban-residents, which comprise 70% of the population in key regions like the Amazon; (2) building on and conserving the biodiversity of tropical forests through existing and emerging sustainable management and value-added forest-based development opportunities; and (3) mitigating as well as planning around climate-based realities, from increased wildfires to droughts and floods. Building on the Manaus Action Plan for a New Forest Economy (MAP) launched by the GCF Task Force in 2022, these working sessions will cover important building blocks for driving finance into the new forest economy–establishing a thriving bioeconomy, sustaining natural infrastructure, restoring degraded landscapes, and intensifying productivity through scaled-up best practices.

Subject to change. Check back for updates and additional details on session leads and participants.

NFE Building Block Establishing a Thriving Bioeconomy Sustaining Natural Infrastructure: Jurisdictional REDD+ and Forest Finance Intensifying & Scaling Up Best Practices for Sustainable Commodity Production Restoration &
Resilience
Morning Sessions Building Robust Bioeconomies: Considering Scale & Attracting Investment Enhancing the Value of Jurisdictional REDD+ Credits: Financing Protection of Natural Infrastructure & Ensure Community Benefits Sustainable Commodities, Agriculture, & Regenerative Livestock: Perspectives & Practice Integrated Fire Management: Subnational, Regional, & Global Perspectives
Afternoon Sessions The People Behind the Bioeconomy:  Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Valuing Standing Forests: Subnational Engagement with the Tropical Forest Forever Facility Supporting a Sustainable Transition for Small and Large Producers:  Leveraging Technology, Territorial Planning, & Community Engagement Restoring Degraded Landscapes:  Building Economic & Climate Resiliency

These working sessions at the GCF Task Force annual meeting in Acre, Brazil, will bolster efforts around new partnerships that will be announced publicly on Friday, May 23rd, and that will be further developed over the next six months and highlighted at COP 30 in Belem later this year. The report-back session will cover an overview from each day’s session that includes: 

     

      • Guiding considerations for each of the four new forest economy building blocks (bioeconomy, natural infrastructure, intensification of commodities, and restoration/resilience), including overlapping themes that emerged throughout the day’s sessions

      • Best practices for each new forest economy building block

      • Key actors/institutions to be involved

      • Gaps that must be addressed, including sequencing/timelines if possible

      • New partnerships and/or fundable projects that can be launched in Acre and further developed in the months leading to COP 30

    ***Sessions will be facilitated to arrive at the above goals. In particular, time for new partnership development and fundable project explanation will be key.***