Q&A: What is the Brazil-led ‘deforestation roadmap’?

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On 3 November, the Brazilian presidency of the COP30 climate talks released its long-awaited “roadmap” on ending deforestation.

Ahead of the Belém summit, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a call for a “roadmap” to halt and reverse deforestation.

Although this voluntary roadmap was outside the COP’s official agenda, it snowballed into a rallying point at the “Amazon” COP.

Some 93 countries called for a reference to a new roadmap for ending deforestation to be part of COP30’s formal negotiated outcome.

However, at the end of the summit, the COP30 presidency announced that there was not the consensus needed for the deforestation roadmap to be part of the final text – but that Brazil would work to create a voluntary roadmap outside of the UN climate process.

This call was answered by 18 countries and four negotiating blocs that offered their inputs on the roadmap, along with scores of NGOs, research centres and other groups.

Now that the roadmap has been published, Carbon Brief explains where it came from, what it entails, why some did not sign on – and what’s next.

The “deforestation roadmap” was one of the signature announcements of the Brazilian presidency of the COP30 climate summit in Belém – albeit one that fell outside the official, negotiated outcomes.

Brazilian president Lula first proposed the deforestation and forest degradation roadmap, alongside one on the fossil fuel transition, at the leaders’ summit in Belém a few days before COP30 began.

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