A conversation with David Williams and Fabrina Furtado
🗓️ Date: November 10, 2025
đź•› Time Zones:
- 12:00 PM — BrasĂlia, Buenos Aires
- 09:00 AM — Mexico City
- 10:00 AM — Quito, New York
- 04:00 PM — Berlin
As global attention turns to COP30 in Belém, the Latin American Climate and Energy Program of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation invites the public to a crucial conversation on the new Brazilian proposal to create the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) — a US$125 billion international fund to “compensate” forest protection.
But is this really a climate solution — or another step toward the financialization of nature?
📍 Live on YouTube — https://youtu.be/qt9E_oCB0GM
🎧 In English, with Portuguese subtitles
David Williams, Director of the Global Climate Justice Program at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (New York), and Fabrina Furtado, Professor at the CPDA/UFRRJ, will critically analyze the contradictions of the TFFF and discuss how similar mechanisms — such as carbon markets and REDD+ — have failed to reduce emissions while deepening inequalities in the Global South.
“We don’t need new speculative mechanisms. We need reparations, public policies, and guaranteed rights for those who truly protect the forests.” — Fabrina Furtado.
The conversation will address how governments in the global North, private investors, and financial institutions, such as the World Bank, continue to shape the climate agenda — often reproducing the same colonial patterns that caused the crisis in the first place.
Photo: AlexandreMRocha, Wikimedia Commons.
