EVENTS
1000L at UNFCCC COP 30
Join us at the center of climate action! The 30th Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will see delegates from nearly 200 countries gather in Belém, Brazil, from November 10th to November 21, 2025. Their goal—accelerating action and driving policy decisions to address climate change’s mounting threat to our planet.
1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion people will be at the heart of the action, advocating for transformative change in finance, land use, and agriculture through the power of landscapes. Together with esteemed partners from Commonland, LandScale, Rainforest Alliance, CDP, Collaborating for Resilience, and more, 1000L will explore the potential of locally-led solutions to transform our global finance, food, and environmental systems.
Discover our ambitious COP agenda, the new papers we’re launching, and our mission to advocate for landscape approaches in Belém!
Our Agenda
Climate Finance
- Climate finance can be most strategically deployed by targeting the multi-sector portfolio of investment projects facilitated and coordinated by Landscape Partnerships to achieve impacts for climate, people and nature at landscape scale.
- Integrated landscape finance strategies generate essential links between projects, thus increasing commercial and social returns, reducing investment risks, and increasing positive climate impacts for landscapes.
- Place-based landscape initiatives create credible vehicles for public–private investment, allowing climate finance, supply chain commitments, and restoration funding to support the same long-term outcomes.
Climate and Landscape-scale Policy
- Siloed policies on land, agriculture, environment, and rural development undermine progress. Integrated frameworks harmonize these sectors, reduce conflicting mandates, and enable coordinated action across ministries, jurisdictions, and agencies.
- Multi-stakeholder landscape platforms create the relationships, norms, and shared agendas needed to bridge national policy frameworks with local implementation. They translate high-level commitments into context-specific strategies grounded in local realities.
- By coordinating across entire production regions, these approaches help companies address systemic risks—such as deforestation, land degradation, and water stress—while supporting local governance structures and aligning with national standards.
- Integrated governance structures enable consistent monitoring and reporting, connecting what happens on farms, forests, and coasts with national climate strategies and international disclosure frameworks. This ensures transparency and accountability across scales.
- By addressing issues collectively, farmers, businesses, investors, land managers and governments can more efficiently navigate the intricacies of bringing regenerative agriculture to scale. Partnerships can facilitate solutions to thorny problems like land tenure disputes, agreement on lands and waters designated for commercial development and for conservation, and design priorities for new infrastructure.
Climate and Landscape Partnerships
- Landscape Partnerships can help scale and accelerate climate change mitigation.
- Multi-stakeholder landscape planning directly addresses climate-related challenges. Stakeholders and planners identify, negotiate and manage the impacts of different land uses and users on others in the landscape to maximize mitigation/adaptation benefits.
- Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) enables stakeholders to balance needs between sectors and stakeholders and to plan integrated activities that reinforce and complement one another.
Our Events
1000L Event
Connecting the Rio Conventions through Landscape Action: Governance and Finance in Practice
- Thursday, November 20th
- 15:00—16:30
- SE Room 3
Though integrating landscape approaches, the session will explore how: inclusive decision-making and community monitoring strengthens accountability and policy coherence; innovations in climate finance and emerging systems for monitoring and transparency helps advance goals of the 3 Rio Conventions.
Speakers: Simon O’Connell, SNV CEO; Willem Ferwerda, Founder, Commonland; Sam Tabory, Global Research Lead, CORE; Natalia Ruiz, Gender and Social Equity Specialist – Initiative 20×20, WRI; Jane Lino, Deputy Director, Programmes, Proforest; Arturo Tovar, Business Development and Innovation Manager, LandScale; Juan Pablo Solis, Global Theme Lead Climate, SNV; Dr. John Recha, Research Scientist at CGIAR, KenLAP; Max Levy, Senior Program Manager, EcoAgriculture Partners; Gustavo Rojas, Sustainable Landscapes Manager, Rainforest Alliance, RA; Sue Armstrong, Global Director of Environmental Impact and Thought Leadership, CDP; Susy Yoshimura, Senior Sustainability Director, Carrefour Brazil; Jahan-Zeb Chowdhury, Lead Technical Specialist, Environment, Climate, Gender and Social Inclusion Division, IFAD.
1000L Policy Group
A global coalition championing integrated and coherent policy for multi-functional landscapes and seascapes.
Individual landscapes, seascapes, and territories are interconnected. Policy should be too.
Policy action for holistic restoration and management of landscapes and seascapes is urgently needed across scales of governance.
We leverage global expertise and presence to shape enabling environments for sustainable,
integrated, and equitably managed multifunctional landscapes, seascapes and territories.
Join Us
We prioritize collaborative efforts that are connected to practically influencing policy design, coherence, and implementation. We do so in ways that no one organization or agency could do as effectively individually.
We believe that consolidated evidence, coherent messaging, and practical tools for supporting landscape actors is at the heart of policy change.
Whether you’re a policymaker, landscape partner, researcher, civil society representative, or funder, we are always looking for new allies.
COP-related resources
Dive deeper into 1000L’s efforts to transform finance, food systems, and climate action with these key resources.
An Introduction to Integrated Landscape Management
Advancing Landscape and Seascape Restoration: The Case for Policy Coherence and Good Practice Sharing
Sierra Volcánica Biocultural Landscape: Collective Action for a Regenerative Landscape Transition
