During this week WAMIP delegation carried on several actions and participated on diverse events, with @nourishscotland, public dialogues with @la_via_campesina_official and @landworkersalliance , and a side event at the COP space with @rangelands_initiative and @ifadnews IFAD. We hosted a photo exhibition exploring pastoralists’ own perceptions of climate change and uncertainty from across the world with @pastres_erc and we were also demonstrating in the streets. Our message is clear and we will launch an statement next week. In the official negotiations and main spaces, there was a lot about trees and ‘nature-based solutions’ across multiple sessions. The mainstream media hailed the agreement on deforestation, but a significant part of this simply replicates the failed programmes of the past. Under such programmes, forest protection in the global south is used as carbon offsets for large polluting companies and rich, consuming publics in the north. The huge ecosystem restoration efforts being proposed potentially cause real problems for our pastoralist communities . This is because large areas of open rangelands are earmarked for tree planting and biodiversity protection through exclusion. These so-called nature-based solutions are frequently new forms of colonialism, opening the gates to ‘green grabbing’, where land and resources are appropriated in the name of environmental conservation. The huge reductions in emissions proposed under the Global Methane Pledge have major implications for livestock production. Yet often the debate goes only into technical solutions -– feed additives, methane-reducing inhibitors and vaccines, seaweed supplements, even face masks for cows. Once again, livestock systems were lumped together, without differentiating between highly polluting industrial systems and more climate-friendly extensive systems, such as African pastoralism. Indeed, many of the solutions proposed are already being practised in extensive grazing systems. The problem I guess is that these practices could not be patented and sold by agribusinesses.