This is the home of CAMAMAZON, a 2-year British Academy funded ODA interdisciplinary research project. In this project, we are following Brazil’s presidency of COP30 in the host city of Belém. This event marks an important anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which began in Rio in Brazil in 1992. It is the first time that global climate negotiations will be held in the Amazon Rainforest. This provides a unique opportunity to document how the forest is mobilised in local, national and international political strategies to shape the collective response. The understandings gained through this research will be used as a basis for reconceptualising a study of International Relations from and for the forest and its people.
CAMAMAZON is a team of six researchers and youth, Indigenous, science and government partners across Brazil and Europe. The project establishes a collaboration between the International Politics Department at Aberystwyth University in Wales and the Centre for Advanced Amazonian Studies (NAEA) at the University of Pará (UFPA), Belém. It initiates partnerships with the International Relations Department at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and the University of Brasília (UnB).
We will be using this website and blog to document the project activities and to provide resources that help you to observe, understand and participate in the politics of COP30. To receive regular updates and project news you can follow us on INSTAGRAM and BLUESKY.