Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities in Acre, Brazil, are pioneering forest conservation — and shaping how climate finance is used to keep their forests standing. Told through their own voices, our new documentary reveals how they navigate daily realities while protecting Acre’s Amazon Forest for future generations. The film highlights the hopes and challenges of Indigenous Peoples, riverine communities, forest-based extractivists and smallholder farmers who dedicate their lives to keeping the Amazon standing.

UNDP’s Climate Promise is the UN system’s largest portfolio of support on climate action, working with more than 140 countries and territories and directly benefiting 37 million people. This portfolio implements over US$2.3 billion in grant financing and draws on UNDP’s expertise in adaptation, mitigation, carbon markets, climate and forests, and climate strategies and policy. Visit our website at climatepromise.undp.org and follow us at @UNDPClimate.

UNDP Climate & Forests supports the implementation of the Paris Agreement through partnerships with over 20 countries, Indigenous Peoples and local communities to reduce deforestation, address forest degradation and promote sustainable development pathways.