After four years of working together, Listen to the Amazon continues to consolidate itself as a powerful alliance for the protection of the Amazon biome, vital for humanity.
On January 27, the nine organizations that make it up, including IRI Colombia, held the first strategic meeting of the year, which sought to establish the roadmap for 2026, in a context marked by a national electoral scenario, global geopolitical tensions and the need to strengthen the political and narrative advocacy of the Amazonian agenda.
As a result of this meeting, the main axes of incidence in the Colombian and international scenario and the first actions to be developed were identified. At the national level, the alliance is preparing to develop a campaign for the Amazon, within the framework of the electoral process – presidential elections – aimed at positioning the Amazon region in the electoral debate and the national public agenda. Likewise, it will take stock of the National Development Plan 2022-2026, as a key input to evidence progress, gaps and pending challenges; and seeks to position the role of organized civil society, recognizing the risks of stigmatization and the need to strengthen its legitimacy in the democratic and electoral framework.
At the international level, Listen to the Amazon identified the Amazon Network as strategic spaces for advocacy and regional articulation; the first Conference for the Progressive Elimination of Fossil Fuels, to be held from April 24 to 28, 2026, relevant to position the Amazon in the global energy debate; COP17 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and COP31 on climate change – which will be held in Armenia and Turkey, respectively – as spaces to make visible the commitments and challenges of the Colombian Amazon within the framework of the global environmental agenda.
To advance in the advocacy exercise in the 2026 electoral process, the Alliance intends to develop activities such as a workshop on the Amazon, its relevance and relationship with the electoral process, aimed at journalists; programmatic meetings with the candidates’ teams, the holding of an Amazonian electoral debate and a communications campaign.
