The Road to COP30: Providing Direct Access to Funding to Indigenous Peoples with Galo Medina, Fernanda Bortolotto, Carolina Polania

Episode 5 | The Road to COP30 – A Series with The Nature Conservancy

In the fifth episode of our six-part Road to COP30 series, The Green Hour Podcast sits down with three conservation leaders from The Nature Conservancy:

• Galo Medina – Program Director, Ecuador
• Fernanda Bortolotto – Climate Policy Specialist, Brazil
• Carolina Polania – Community-Based Conservation Specialist, Colombia

🎧 In this episode, we explore:

• Indigenous guardianship of biodiversity and their role in halting deforestation
• The funding gap: why Indigenous organizations receive less than 1% of climate finance
• Policy reforms and the push for Indigenous participation in global climate decisions
• Ecuador’s Amazon BioCorridor Program, co-designed with Indigenous communitie ...