🌿 Cosmoperceptions of the Forest
📽 Public screening + discussion of “Forest Histories”
🗓 Nov 14, 10:00
📍 Blue Zone | Culture + Entertainment Pavilion — COP30 (Parque da Cidade, Belém–PA)
🎟 Free
A film series by Goethe-Institut + MPI-GEA, created with Indigenous artists from Brazil.
#COP30
🌎 Excited to share our contributions to COP30 in Belém!
Take a look at the schedule and join us for discussions, panels, screenings, exhibitions, and collaborative sessions highlighting climate justice, regenerative tourism, Indigenous knowledge, and Global South perspectives in climate policy.
📢 Publication Alert!
🌱 Our executive report “Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Food Systems” will be published in 2 days!
Catch us at COP for related events:
📆 15.11 | 9–9:50 AM – Action Pavillon, Blue Zone
📆 16.11 | 2 PM – Benedito Nunes Galerie
#COP30 #GlobalSouth
🔅 Panel at COP30 🔅
Bringing Perspectives from the Global South to Climate Policy Discussions 🌱 🌎
🕝 November 15, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.
📍Higher Education for Climate Action Pavilion - Blue Zone
🌿 “What the Invisible Dream — Cosmoperceptions of the Forest”
Art from residencies in the Amazon, Marajó, Atlantic Forest, Sápmi & Rio Negro/Munich exploring forests, waters & cycles.
📅 Nov 10, 7PM
📍 Galeria Benedito Nunes, Belém (PA)
🆓 Free entry
More info: www.goethe.de/ins/br/pt/st... 
Science and Voices of the Amazon 🍃 Multivisions on the relationships between human and non-human beings with nature
🗓 November 13th
🕓 4 PM to 6:30 PM
📍 Hailton Corrêa Auditorium (ICJ) - UFPA
Bring your curiosity, your listening skills, and your perspective on the world.
Reduced access to marine food sources led to the exploration of the island’s hinterland, deforestation, initial cultivation and changes in diet (6, 7).
The people who lived near the coast developed various strategies such as building houses on stilts, using easily replaceable materials or moving to higher ground if possible (5).
As a result of SLR, the coastal regions were flooded and the coastline shifted inland, making the reef barriers (4) less protective against e.g. high waves, and less accessible as hunting grounds.
Historical records collected within the SIDS show periods that are characterized by rising temperatures (1) accompanied by extreme events (2) and sea level rise (SLR, 3).
🔎 Case study #2 “Adaptation to sea level change in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)” by Rebecca Lellau
📌 Global warming particularly affects SIDS, in order to develop strategies for adaptation to new conditions and extreme events, including sea level rise, we can use multi-methodical data.
In our executive report, which we will present at COP 30, we present case studies which explore long-term human landscape management and adaptation, and show how traditional and local knowledge provide crucial insights into resilience to climate change challenges, including droughts.
The COP16 biodiversity summit in 2024 called on countries to pursue collective actions to restore degraded land, boost biodiversity, and scale up nature-positive food production by 2030.
In our executive report, coming soon, we present case studies which address these goals.
🔍Case study #1: “The archaeology of pastoralism, land management, and biodiversity conservation in Eastern Africa” by Victor Iminjili
Pastoralist herders have long shaped African savannahs, creating nutrient-rich glades that attract wildlife and enhance biodiversity through their herding practices.
We can't wait to share what we've been working on in our report, with case studies from the regions of Amazonia, the Andean highlands and Africa, spanning topics relating to resistant crops, resilient food systems, heritage integration and rooted knowledge.
Our team have been working hard, and having fun, bringing together articles from our wonderful contributors over the last months - pictured is a small group of us in one of our meetings! 💻📝
Our team member Dr. Verónica Zuccarelli Freire also speaks about the article in the Humboldt Magazine, available in German, Spanish and Portuguese here!
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While you're waiting for our executive report, why not read our perspectives on integrating palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge in COP discussions?
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The case studies and perspectives in this report address both local and global topics relating to this theme, to which we share policy recommendations.
COMING SOON! We’re delighted to share that our executive report, bringing together experts on regenerative agriculture and resilient food systems will be released soon.
Through these collaborations and discussions, our aim is to provide a practical, tangible framework to bring together historical perspectives, local science and Indigenous knowledge to advocate for a more equitable and sustainable Anthropocene trajectory.
We hosted ‘The Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene’ Conference in June 2024 at the Max-Planck-Institute of Geoanthropoloy Jena, Germany.
You can read more about this event, and the important discussions we engaged in, both below and at the link in our bio!
To meet this goal, we host workshops and discussions and write papers and reports under our consortium, ECHOES. To find out more, and how to get involved, visit our website via the link in our bio.
Our aim is to bring together diverse voices and perspectives, incorporating palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge, to address pressing challenges relating to climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
We'll share our events, publications and case studies with you here - we look forward to lively exchanges with you!
Understanding the Anthropocene, and crises arising from human-Earth system interactions, requires diverse knowledge and perspectives for a more holistic approach to public policy making.
With disproportionate impacts on the Global South associated with these crises, recognizing the significance of archaeological, historical, and ancestral viewpoints from these regions becomes pivotal for a comprehensive understanding of the enduring impacts of human-environment interactions.
Hi all! We're a working group focused on integrating information from palaeoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge to address urgent Anthropocene crises. Together, we form ECHOES: Exploring Climate and Human Observations from the Global South.
Rethinking how #agriculture evolved. A new "We in #Evolution" podcast explores the sophisticated tech of #Amazonian gardens— a system of #exchange, #culture & #biodiversity, not machines. A fascinating listen.
Podcast features our very own, Laura Pereira Furquim
open.spotify.com/episode/0w2E...
So much to think about after "Not all that glitters is green" by Verónica Zuccarelli Freire. A powerful reminder that the costs of the energy transition are not shared equally, especially in the #Andes. True climate action requires environmental justice.
#ClimateJustice #IndigenousKnowledge
