The realization of COP30 in Belém projected the Amazon to the center of the global debate on climate change, biodiversity, and ecological transition. However, Amazonian challenges cannot be reduced to an international environmental agenda formulated outside the region. Three years after the Amazon Dialogues, there is a growing need to advance a deeper and more structured Latin American agenda for the Pan-Amazon, capable of articulating development, sovereignty, democracy, regional integration, and socio-environmental justice.
Latin America faces both old and new challenges simultaneously. Historical structures of inequality, productive dependency, limited regional integration, and urban precariousness persist. At the same time, extra-regional geopolitical disputes over strategic natural resources, energy, critical minerals, biodiversity, water, and land are intensifying. These disputes increasingly take economic, technological, commercial, and, in some contexts, even military forms, placing the question of regional sovereignty in new terms.
In this context, the Amazon emerges as a central space for the construction of shared democratic futures. Not only because of the ecological importance of the biome, but also due to the complexity of its territories, cities, economies, and peoples. The region concentrates decisive potentialities for a new development trajectory, while simultaneously expressing the contradictions of contemporary capitalism in acute ways: deforestation, predatory mining, land conflicts, the financialization of nature, precarious urbanization, and deep social inequalities.
Bioeconomy has become a strategic concept within these debates. Yet its construction requires avoiding simplistic approaches. The innovation needed in the Amazon cannot emerge solely from imported technologies or from transforming the forest into a financial asset. It will require combining science, technological innovation, and ancestral knowledge, articulating universities, research centers, governments, traditional communities, social movements, and productive sectors committed to a just transition.
At the same time, it is impossible to ignore the economic activities already established in the region and the historical trajectories that have structured patterns of occupation and accumulation often harmful to Amazonian biomes. The challenge is not only to contain environmental impacts, but to build concrete pathways for productive and territorial transformation capable of generating employment, income, infrastructure, and technological capabilities for predominantly urban populations living, to a large extent, in precarious and unequal cities.
Financing is also a central issue. Although new climate finance instruments have expanded in recent years, effective access to these resources remains highly restricted for many subnational governments, local institutions, and territorial organizations in the Amazon. There is a clear mismatch between global climate finance flows and the concrete territorial implementation capacities within the region.

The discussion on infrastructure also remains open. The Amazon needs connectivity, logistics, energy systems, urban infrastructure, and digital infrastructure. However, such investments
cannot reproduce exogenous and exclusively extractivist models. It is necessary to think about infrastructures adapted to Amazonian territorial realities, capable of strengthening regional integration, social inclusion, climate resilience, and productive diversification.
Against this backdrop, the seminar Climate, Innovation and the Pan-Amazon: A Latin American Seminar aims to bring together researchers, policymakers, public officials, social movements, Indigenous and community leaders, international organizations, academic networks, and representatives of national and subnational governments from across Latin America to discuss common strategies for the Amazon region and the Global South.
The seminar seeks to consolidate and expand existing cooperation networks, promoting the exchange of experiences, the formulation of shared agendas, and the construction of collaborative initiatives. More than a space for diagnosis, the meeting intends to become a platform for political and intellectual articulation focused on generating ideas, accumulating institutional capacities, and fostering innovation oriented toward the concrete needs of Amazonian territories.
The seminar’s central themes include:

• Regional integration and sovereignty in the Pan-Amazon
• Climate change, ecological transition, and environmental justice
• Bioeconomy, innovation, and ancestral knowledge
• Infrastructure and Amazonian territorial development
• Climate finance and subnational capacities
• Amazonian urbanization and the right to the city
• Geopolitics of natural resources and global disputes
• South-South scientific and technological cooperation
• Democracy, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, and social participation
• New development strategies for Latin America and the Caribbean

Held in Belém, a city that synthesizes both the contradictions and the potentialities of the Amazon, the seminar seeks to affirm the region not as a periphery of the global debate, but as a strategic territory for the formulation of contemporary alternatives for development, democracy, and international cooperation.