Protecting Forests, Improving Lives – Community Voices and Stories from West Africa
An interactive showcase for London Climate Action Week highlighting the voices of people whose lives are being improved directly by large scale forest protection programs.
Too often, forest communities are absent from discussions on the impact of deforestation and how to stop it as well as to share positive progress being made on the ground. Emergent will bring community leaders and government spokespersons from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, two key commodity producing countries in West Afrida, to LCAW to tell their stories. They will share first-hand accounts of how their national forest protection programmes are already delivering real impact on the ground — not just in protecting and restoring forests but improving the lives for people and communities.
National forest protection programs have the potential to tackle deforestation at scale while involving communities and Indigenous Peoples, delivering real impact and building sustainable economies based on healthy forests.
Now, for the first time, ambitious companies have the opportunity to support these countries through the purchase of high-integrity forest carbon credits, which meet the highest standards of environmental quality and social safeguards.
The event aims to educate corporates about these programs and demonstrate the real impact companies can have today for climate, people and nature through credit purchases from trailblazer countries like Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire, plus others rolling out similar programs.
This will not be another panel event about the need to protect forests. It will feature the people who live in and protect nature, telling the story about how they are actively doing it and benefiting, both in person and via new videos to be released for the first time at London Climate Action Week. And it will provide companies with details of a credible route to take meaningful action today.
Sponsored by Amazon, in collaboration with Emergent. Held at Solutions House LCAW 2026.