PARLATINO and the Red Cross launch climate action and community resilience alliances ahead of COP30

A group of people walk along the pier towards the community of Mocagua, located on the banks of the Amazon River near the tri-border area of Colombia, Peru and Brazil. The community is at the forefront of climate resilience initiatives, including the development of ecological calendars and systems for monitoring droughts and floods.

Photo: Colombian Red Cross — A group of people walk along the pier towards the community of Mocagua, located on the banks of the Amazon River near the tri-border area of Colombia, Peru and Brazil. The community is at the forefront of climate resilience initiatives, including the development of ecological calendars and systems for monitoring droughts and floods.
Photo: Colombian Red Cross

Panama City, September 25, 2025. PARLATINO and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched the Parliamentary Alliance for Climate Action and the Alliance for the Amazon, their respective legislative and multisectoral coordination initiatives to promote adaptation to climate change, the reduction of hydrometeorological disaster risks, and the strengthening of community resilience in the Amazon.

Both organizations are joining forces ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP30, to be held in November in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

Congressman Rolando González Patricio, president of PARLATINO, explained that PARLATINO leads the Parliamentary Alliance for Climate Action and Just Transition (APACTJ), a regional platform with global reach made up of legislators from Latin America, the Caribbean, and around the world. This space coordinates, hand in hand with specialized organizations, efforts aimed at strengthening and accelerating parliamentary contributions to the creation and maintenance of a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, where humanity lives in harmony with nature.

“The Parliamentary Alliance for Climate Action and Just Transition seeks to leverage each country’s constitutional mandates to deploy more immediate and effective climate action for a just transition that leaves no one behind,” explained González Patricio.

Within the framework of global climate agreements and with a ten-year vision, the IFRC and its National Red Cross Societies presented their Alliance for the Amazon. This initiative combines science, humanitarian expertise, and ancestral knowledge to protect Amazonian communities and their livelihoods from the effects of disasters, exacerbated by the climate crisis and the complex challenges facing that territory.

“Our alliance has a purpose that is as ambitious as it is urgent: to strengthen the resilience, health, and income of the most vulnerable families,” explained Loyce Pace, IFRC Regional Director for the Americas. “Forest fires, floods, and droughts—which are becoming increasingly prolonged, recurrent, and intense—are threatening the survival of the Amazon ecosystem and decades of progress in human development and community resilience. No community, no country, and no organization can face these threats alone, which is why coordinated work between the Red Cross, states, international organizations, and the private sector is key.”

The IFRC and PARLATINO presented these initiatives at the event “Joining forces towards COP30,” held at PARLATINO headquarters in Panama City, which was also attended by representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in the country and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

At the meeting, Gustavo Da Veiga Guimarães, Counselor at the Brazilian Embassy in Panama, delivered a message about COP 30, highlighting that the choice of Belém do Pará, the gateway to the Amazon, reinforces Brazil’s commitment to tropical forests and sustainable development in the region. “COP30 will be a milestone for dialogue, inclusion, and international solidarity, addressing five challenges: increasing climate finance for developing countries, strengthening emission reduction targets, transitioning to clean and renewable energy, conserving the Amazon rainforest and other key ecosystems, and last but not least, but no less importantly, the need to strengthen climate justice for vulnerable populations.”

For her part, the Deputy Regional Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Andrea Brusco, led the interactive dialogue: Protecting the Amazon as a global symbol. Brusco explained that protecting ecosystems and populations from the climate crisis is a complex, immense, and urgent issue, the scale of which should not discourage us but rather spur us to take prompt and effective action, always with the human dimension at its core.

The PARLATINO, represented by its president Rolando González, signed the Charter on Climate and the Environment, with Loyce Pace, IFRC Americas Regional Director, acting as an honorary witness.

Photo: PARLATINO — The PARLATINO, represented by its president Rolando González, signed the Charter on Climate and the Environment, with Loyce Pace, IFRC Americas Regional Director, acting as an honorary witness.
Photo: PARLATINO

PARLATINO joins the Charter on Climate and the Environment

Reaffirming its role as a catalyst for consensus and an active voice in building climate solutions from and for Latin America and the Caribbean, during the event PARLATINO also signed the Charter on Climate and the Environment for Humanitarian Organizations.

This charter, promoted by the IFRC and other humanitarian actors, establishes commitments and a framework for action that guides its signatories and humanitarian organizations in general in promoting community resilience, adapting to new climate realities, and reducing environmental impact and carbon footprint.

For more information:

Mariana Carmona – PARLATINO Press Director: mariana.carmona@parlatino.org

Susana Arroyo Barrantes – IFRC Communications Manager, Americas Office: susana.arroyo@ifrc.org | +50769993199

Source : IRFC

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