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November 13, 2025 from 12:30–1:45 pm (GMT-3)
Blue zone, UNFF Forest Pavilion
The Congo Basin 2025 Assessment Report – From Past to Future:
Resilience and Sustainable Development
The Science Panel for the Congo Basin (SPCB), convened by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), is organizing an event together with the CBFP to announcethe upcoming first-ever Congo Basin Assessment Report.
This report, entitled, Resilience and Sustainability in the Congo Basin: Retracing the Past, Looking to the Future, synthesizes scientific knowledge about this unique region, examines critical questions on the Congo Basin’s ecosystems, and current and future threats that arise from local, regional, and global human activity.
Established in 2023 by, with and for scientists in the region, the Science Panel for the Congo Basin (SPCB) will present this report to the international community at COP30 in Belém. The report outlines the opportunities, solutions, and pathways for sustainable development to benefit people, nature, and climate.
Prepared by more than 175 scientists from the Congo Basin and their partners around the world, the Report provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary synthesis of existing scientific knowledge on the region, its ecosystems, and the challenges they face. It serves as a foundation for dialogue and accelerated action by policymakers in the region and at the international level.
On November 13, 2025, from 12.30-1:45 pm, the event will bring together co-chairs of the Panel Dr. Lydie-Stella Koutika and Dr. Bonaventure Sonké, as well as high-level speakers including Dr. Carlos Lopes, COP30 Special Envoy for Africa to:
- present the Panel’s work and key findings;
- outline the Congo Basin’s critical contributions to Africa’s development and the world’s climate;
- identify its acute and future threats and extend a call to action to address the most urgent challenges and seize on the opportunities for sustainable development.
Most importantly, the event will underline the need for more political attention and investment for this unique and important region, informed by science and solutions.
The event will also make connections with the Assessment reports of the Science Panel for the Amazon, and the Science Panel for Borneo - all in partnership, based on the same commitments and recognition of the importance of the role of science and locally - generated knowledge and solutions to conserve and advance sustainable development in the Congo Basin.
The event will feature English and French simultaneous interpretation and will be livestreamed on the Forest Pavilion YouTube Page.
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