Rootedness Despite Uncertainty: Immobility in a Changing Climate / Enraizamento Apesar da Incerteza: Imobilidade em um Clima em Mudança

Side Event COP 30 / Evento paralelo COP 30

With simultaneous translation / Com tradução simultânea

ABOUT

This side event explores why people stay despite escalating climate extremes. It brings attention to communities who are unable or unwilling to move, challenging mobility biases in adaptation policy. The discussion asks how climate finance can advance justice, dignity, and resilience for those who remain in exposed regions.

Drawing on new findings from the Belmont Forum–funded project ITHACA (Immobility in a Changing Climate), the event presents case studies from Ghana, Amazonia, and other climate-vulnerable regions, revealing the complexity of mobility decisions and the differentiated, intersectional effects of immobility- particularly along gender and social lines.

The panel will discuss how policy and practice can respond to and build on the innovations emerging from immobility research, ensuring that those who stay are recognized and supported in climate adaptation and finance agendas.

Com base em experiências da Amazônia, África e outros contextos globais, o debate irá desconstruir o viés pró-mobilidade presente nas políticas de adaptação climática e propor caminhos para que o financiamento climático reconheça e fortaleça a permanência digna e resiliente de populações expostas.

PANEL SPEAKERS

Speakers include leading experts on immobility and climate attribution science, a community leader from drought/flood-affected Amazonia, a Brazilian policymaker addressing urban heat, and a youth advocate championing climate justice for those most exposed to human-driven climate extremes.

- Patricia Pinho (IPAM, Brazil) – Welcome, Amazonia and the resilience of those who stay.

- Emily Boyd (Director Beijer Institute, Lund University & Climes, Sweden) - Assessing Immobility: Who Stays and Why?

- Adelle Thomas (Senior Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, USA) - Immobility and Adaptation Policy

- Mumuni Abu (University of Ghana) - Gendered Immobility at Climate Risk Thresholds: Evidence from Ghana’s Volta Delta 

- Débora Castiglione - Oficial Nacional de Migração, Meio Ambiente, Mudança do Clima e Redução do Risco de Desastres - OIM

- Angela Lopes de Jesus - President at the Federation of Rural Workers, Farmers, and Family Farmers of the State of Pará

- Emanuel Pereira Carneiro - Young Family Farmer and President of the Nova Timboteua Rural Workers' Union

PALESTRANTES

- Patricia Pinho (IPAM, Brasil): Boas-vindas e reflexões sobre resiliência na Amazônia e o direito de permanecer.

- Adelle Thomas (Senior Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, USA)

- Mumuni Abu (Universidade de Gana): Imobilidade de gênero em contextos de risco climático no Delta de Volta.

- Emily Boyd (Beijer Institute, Lund University & Climes, Suécia): Avaliando a imobilidade: quem permanece e por quê?

- Formuladora de políticas públicas (Brasil): Adaptação urbana e os desafios do calor extremo para populações que permanecem nos territórios.

- Angela Lopes (Presidenta da União de Agricultores Familiares do Pará): Vozes do território: permanência e desafios no campo amazônico.

- Emanuel Pereira Carneiro: Jovem agricultor familiar

ORGANIZERS / ORGANIZAÇÃO

Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia - IPAM (Patricia Pinho, Brazil)

Lund University / Climes (Emily Boyd, Sweden)