Embrapa researchers are participating in the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), which takes place from November 30 to December 12, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. President Silvia Massruhá, executive director for business Ana Euler, head of Advisory Service for International Relations Marcelo Morandi, and researcher Gustavo Mozzer are part of the official delegation from the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. Morandi and Mozzer are participating in the negotiation stage and arrived in the Emirates on November 30. The president and the director will join the group on December 6. Brazil's full delegation has around 1,500 participants from civil society, private companies, congress, state governments and the federal government. In addition to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, other high-level participants include the Brazilian ministers of Environment and Climate Change, External Relations, Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Health, Mines and Energy, and Cities. According to Marcelo Morandi, COP 28 can be segmented into three environments: Promotion, which includes all countries; international institutions like FAO, IICA or the World Bank; and private companies, in the format of a large climate fair, with several pavilions. In the latter, there are big events like congresses, lectures, signing of bilateral agreements, and the launch of major initiatives. “A large fair that aims at climate issues,” Morandi explains. In total, there will be 120 panels promoted by the government, civil society, and the private sector. Pasture recovery will be the subject of a panel at the Brazil Pavilion at COP 28, as the Ministry of Agriculture will launch the program for the rehabilitation of degraded areas, in which Embrapa has direct participation. At the Brazil Pavilion, Embrapa will showcase its initiatives on the production of bioinputs, technologies for the Low Carbon Agriculture Plan, bioeconomy and pasture recovery, and it will also be present in other thematic panels. The second environment is where negotiations and agreements on the Climate Convention take place. There are more than one hundred items in the agenda, which organized in large areas such as Science and Technology, Adaptation, Mitigation, Carbon Market, Agriculture, among others. And the third environment will be the space where the balance of the implementation of the Paris Agreement (2015) will be discussed in the report called Global Stocktake (GST). According to the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, Brazil will reinforce its commitment to limit the increase in the global average temperature to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. "Since COP 15 in Copenhagen, Brazil has launched the first version of the Low Carbon Agriculture Plan, wherein the recovery of degraded pastures was one of the technologies to incorporate areas with a good agricultural profile in the production system, allowing the expansion of agricultural areas without expanding onto native vegetation areas. In that sense, we already have experiences in technologies for soil correction, use of cover crops, fertilization, and integrated systems,” Morandi asserts. In his opinion, COP 28 will also be an opportunity for Brazil to present its sustainable technologies for agriculture and awaken foreign interest in investment in Brazil. “We need much more funding to convert around 40 million pastures available for restoration,” he says. Participation of Embrapa's Executive Officers at COP 28: President Silvia Massruhá will be present in the following panels: Dec 8: Initiative Suelos Vivos de las Américas "Cosechando Carbono: Avanzando en la Agricultura Sostenible en las Américas - IICA Dec 9: Launch of Food and Climate National Action toolkit Dec 9: Desafios e Oportunidades na Amazônia: co-criação científica para regenerar, descarbonizar e remover gases de efeito estufa da atmosfera – Consórcio dos Governadores Dec 9: Sustainable AgriRevolution: Cultivating Positive Change – IICA/Mapa Dec 10: Segurança alimentar e agricultura de baixo carbono - Rede ILPF Dec 10: A agricultura brasileira como catalisador da transformação dos sistemas agroalimentares da América Latina - Experiências de Sustentabilidade e Inclusão – Mapa/FAO Dec 10: Transparência no Agro Brasileiro – CNA Dec 11: Plano Nacional de Conservação de Pastagens Degradadas – Mapa Dec 11: Plano ABC+ e seu papel na segurança Alimentar - Mapa The Executive Director for Business, Ana Euler, will the present in the following panels: Dec 6: A reestruturação do Fundo Clima e a descarbonização da economia brasileira – Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA) Dec 6: Bioeconomia e Circularidade para um futuro Sustentável – Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria, Comércio e Serviços (MDIC) Dec 8: Iniciative Suelos Vivos de las Américas "Cosechando Carbono: Avanzando en la Agricultura Sostenible en las Américas - IICA Dec 9: Launch of Food and Climate National Action toolkit Dec 9: Unlocking inclusion on Nature and Bioeconomy - the role of of trade – International Trade Centre Dec 9: Construção da Política Nacional de Bioeconomia e sua interface internacional- Ministério do Meio Ambiente Dec 9: Desafios e Oportunidades na Amazônia: co-criação científica para regenerar, descarbonizar e remover gases de efeito estufa da atmosfera – Consórcio Amazônia Legal Dec 10: Striking the balance – where and how to supply our land needs by 2030 - McKinsey & Company Dec 10: A agricultura brasileira como catalisador da transformação dos sistemas - agroalimentares da América Latina - Experiências de Sustentabilidade e Inclusão – Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário (MDA) Dec 10: Para além das Florestas: sistemas alimentares e agricultura na Amazônia e as soluções climáticas baseadas na natureza – Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza Dec 10: Os desafios e oportunidades da sociobioeconomia para clima e biodiversidade no Brasil - Inovação, Escala, Inclusão e Conservação – Consórcio Amazônia Legal