“The Last Children of the Forest: Yanomami People”

During Amazon Week 2026, the Embassy of Brazil in Berlin will host the exhibition “The Last Children of the Forest: Yanomami People,” by Brazilian photographer Ricardo Martins, one of the most prominent names in nature photography in Brazil. This exhibition invites the public to reflect on the inseparable relationship between indigenous peoples and the preservation of the largest tropical rainforest on the planet. The images reveal the daily life, rituals, and spirituality of the Yanomami people, recognizing them not only as inhabitants of the forest but as its historical guardians and holders of ancestral knowledge fundamental to global environmental balance.

Some of the photos can be viewed on the Amazon Week website.

Until May 21 | Mon-Fri, from 10:00 to 17:00 (CEST)
June 1-6 | restricted to the public attending Amazon Week events
Free admission | No registration required

Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin

Amazonian flavours by Paulo Martins Institute

Paulo Martins Institute is participating once again to Amazon Week, bringing the rich flavours of the region alongside chef Paulo Anijar, from the state of Pará. He will lead a workshop on Amazonian ingredients, and curate the catering menu at events hosted by the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin on June 01 and 02.

All dishes will feature ingredients sourced from Amazonian biodiversity, produced by traditional communities, Indigenous peoples, or small local industries, generating jobs, income, cultural value, and contributing directly to forest preservation.

These activities are supported by Amazon Investor Coalition, Inter-American Development Bank, and Apex Brasil.

Material Design towards a sustainable future

The United Nations University (UNU) Hub on Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Engineering (SURE), jointly established by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC‑Rio) and the UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU‑FLORES), will be represented at Amazon Week 2026 on 26 May 2026 in Dresden, Germany. The Hub, which was officially established on 6 May 2026, serves as a platform for research, education, and outreach focused on accessible, sustainable, and climate‑resilient housing, with particular attention to informal settlements as integral parts of urban life in Brazil and beyond.

The Hub’s work will be featured in the session “Material Design towards a Sustainable Future,” held as part of the closing event of GRK 2250, a DFG‑funded Research Training Group at Dresden University of Technology dedicated to improving the impact safety of building structures using mineral‑bonded composites. Within this session, contributions from the Hub and its partners will highlight research on natural fibers sourced from the Amazon, such as curauá, used as reinforcement in cement‑based materials. The session will also present work on lightweight bamboo construction systems for emergency housing, as well as 3D printing approaches using locally available materials, including soil, plant‑based resins, and natural fibers. Potential social housing applications in the Amazon region will also be explored, along with the Hub’s planned joint postgraduate programs, summer schools, and short courses on resilience, circular construction, and sustainable resource management. 

Language: English  
May 26, 2026 | 15:00 - 18:00 (CEST)
Fritz-Foerster Building - Dresden University of Technology campus 
Mommsenstraße 6, 01069 Dresden

Opening Ceremony and Bioeconomy Panel Discussion

enabling sustainable supply chains through access to high-value markets

The Amazon Week 2026 will be opened with a bioeconomy event in Berlin focused on showcasing market-ready solutions grounded in biodiversity, innovation, and traceability, while advancing deforestation-free supply chains, ESG compliance, and risk mitigation. Tailored to private-sector and trade partners, the event will also present concrete business models, partnerships, and financing mechanisms, serving as a space for networking and deal-making.

Languages: Portuguese/English (simultaneous interpretation) 
June 01, 2026 | 15:00 - 19:00 (CEST)
Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin

BRAZIL-GERMANY TRADE DIALOGUE ON BIOECONOMY

A closed session conceived as a facilitated technical–commercial dialogue aimed at fostering mutual understanding. Its main objective is to create a safe and well-informed environment in which Brazilian suppliers of forest-based ingredients and products from the Amazon region and German buyers, importers, distributors, and other trade-related stakeholders can: exchange practical perspectives, concerns, and expectations; build mutual understanding and trust based on transparency; identify concrete opportunities and constraints for future commercial partnerships; clarify technical, regulatory, logistical, and market-related issues and; become acquainted with available support instruments.  

Language: English
June 02, 2026 | 10:00 - 13:00 (CEST)
Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin
By invitation only

Frontiers of Fire: Regional Cooperation to Protect the Amazon Against a New Cycle of Climate Risk

The Amazon faces a structural transformation of its fire regime, driven by climate change, forest degradation, and the accelerated transformation of landscapes. The response requires regional cooperation, integrated monitoring, prevention, local capacity-building, sustained financing, and the recognition of traditional knowledge.

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) and its eight Member Countries - Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela - have already established a regional architecture to advance in this direction, based on the Memorandum of Understanding on Integrated Fire Management, the Amazonian Network for Integrated Fire Management (RAMIF), and the Amazon Regional Observatory (ORA). 

German cooperation has been instrumental in making this possible. The challenge now is to consolidate, finance, and implement this agenda before the next climatic cycle - marked by a potential transition toward El Niño conditions starting in mid-2026 - turns this risk into a new regional emergency. 

Language: English
June 02, 2026 | 9:00 (CEST)
Embassy of Colombia | Taubenstr. 23, D-10117 Berlín

The Bioeconomy Challenge: Financial solutions to mobilize private investment

A discussion about practical financing solutions, along with emerging approaches and innovative instruments that can drive a scalable bioeconomy transition in Amazonia. It will position Amazonia as a global hub for bioeconomy knowledge and solutions that can be adapted across other biodiversity rich regions and help in the achievement of NDCs and NBSAPs targets.  

The event will convey two panel discussions, followed by a reception with Instituto Paulo Martins, offering contemporary Amazonian cuisine by Chef Paulo Anijar.

Language: English

June 02, 2026 | 14:30 - 17:30 (CEST) (Doors Open 14:00)
Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin

Building Positive Futures from COP30

What can be collectively built from the debates, events, and activities of the Positive Futures project and its civil society partners at COP30? For Positive Futures, the COP30 in the heart of the Amazon provided an opportunity to bring together many visions from Brazil and other countries where the Heinrich Böll Foundation is active. Beyond the official summit in the Blue Zone, COP30 served also as a space for civil society to connect, exchange experiences, and strengthen shared agendas. In this context, Positive Futures focused urban adaptation to the climate crisis, sustainable food systems for the future, and Latin American civil society articulations. In the online discussion we will continue to guide discussions and reflections on building positive futures in the post-COP30 context. 

Language: Portuguese/English (simultaneous interpretation) 

June 02, 2026 | 15:00 - 17:00 (CEST)
Online

ALL (W)IN! Leveraging complementary roles to shape resilient and future-proof urban systems

While Rotterdam (Netherlands) demonstrates how sustained cross-sector coordination can strengthen urban resilience through forward-looking water management, the 2024 floods in Rio Grande do Sul and the recurrent ones in Belém (Brazil), highlighted the need for rapid, coordinated action among government, business, and philanthropy in times of crisis. Whether building long-term resilience or responding to urgent shocks, one lesson is clear: coordinated action across sectors in urban systems is essential and globally applicable. In practice, outcomes are shaped by a complex interplay of – and tensions between –resources, dependencies, and lived experiences across urban and rural contexts. While innovation, capital, science, and policy are deeply complementary, they often remain disconnected.  

This session brings together actors from these domains to explore how their roles can work more effectively together while recognizing that future-proof urban systems depend not on individual contributions, but on how they coordinate. It focuses on moving from parallel work to complementary action by clarifying roles, strengthening connections, and sharing lessons from both successful and challenging experiences.   

Language: English 

June 02, 2026 | 17:30 - 20:00 (CEST) Session and Reception 
BMW Foundation Office, Berlin
Reinhardtstraße 58, 10117 Berlin

Blomstein Workshop on EU Regulation

Workshop by Blomstein providing the Brazilian bioeconomy delegation with an overview of EU regulatory frameworks affecting Amazonian bioeconomy products, including sustainability, deforestation, and market access rules. 

Language: Portuguese 

June 03, 2026 | 9:00 - 11:00 (CEST)
Blomstein, Berlin Office

Cocoa Bioeconomy: Conservation, Communities and Investment

Despite its potential as a nature-based solution, cocoa cultivation remains a major driver of forest loss and CO₂ emissions across the tropics — and is itself increasingly vulnerable to climate change. This panel asks a central question: under what conditions can the cocoa bioeconomy actually deliver on its promise of conservation, climate resilience, and equitable local development? Drawing on experience from Brazil's Atlantic Rain Forest and Amazon, two biomes with distinct histories and models of cocoa agroforestry, representatives from academia, NGOs, and companies will examine the opportunities and limits of different approaches. 

Discussions will cover the role of carbon and biodiversity credits in financing agroforestry systems, the potential of emerging techniques such as enhanced rock weathering to amplify climate benefits, and the development of robust sustainability standards that go beyond existing certification schemes. Throughout, the panel will highlight how a well-designed cocoa bioeconomy can generate income, strengthen food security, and empower local communities, particularly women, while offering credible investment opportunities for the private sector.

Language: English
June 03, 2026 | 16:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
Online

Screening of: “The Falling Sky” (Documentary)

“The Falling Sky” is a documentary by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha based on the book of the same title by Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa and French anthropologist Bruce Albert, recently elected the best Brazilian non-fiction book of the 21st century. The film portrays the Watoriki community during the Reahu funeral ritual, foregrounding Yanomami cosmology, the struggle against illegal gold mining, and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. It premiered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes, the parallel section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, and has been screened in more than twenty countries so far, receiving numerous international awards. 

Language: Portuguese (with subtitles in German)
June 03, 2026 | 18:00 - 20:00 (CEST)
Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin

Amazonian Knowledge Dialogue: Pondering on Amazonian Cosmovisions

A public event organised by the Latin America Institute (Freie Universität Berlin) in partnership with Living Gaia E.V., building on previous editions of Amazon Week to create a space for dialogue between academic, artistic, and indigenous perspectives on the Amazon rainforest. The event engages with plural understandings of the region, its peoples, and their knowledge systems. The programme will open with the screening of a documentary that explores themes such as the lives of Huni Kuin women, forest spirituality, intergenerational knowledge, as well as contemporary challenges including deforestation, violence, and social change, structured through themes such as its Living Spirit, The Future of the Forest, and How the Forest Communicates. The screening will be followed by a dialogue with indigenous leaders, particularly Bunkê Huni Kuin, Ekuna Kamayura and Ìdòwú Akínrúlí, who will share their perspectives on cosmovisions, territory, art, and resistance. By combining visual storytelling with live exchange, the event aims to deepen reflections on Amazonian epistemologies and foster conversations on alternative futures grounded in indigenous knowledge and lived experience.

Language: Portuguese/English (simultaneous interpretation)  
June 03, 2026 | 18:00 - 20:00 (CEST)
Spore Initiative | Hermannstraße 86, 12051

Amazonian Gastronomy Atelier: Food, Territory and Regenerative Bioeconomy

The Amazon Investor Coalition (AIC), with the institutional support of the Embassy of Brazil in Germany and the gastronomic curation and territorial narrative of the Instituto Paulo Martins (IPM) is hosting a special experience dedicated to Amazonian gastrodiplomacy. This intimate and carefully curated gathering will bring together diplomatic leaders, market partners and other strategic actors to experience Amazonian gastronomy as a bridge between food, territory, culture and regenerative bioeconomy.

The experience is part of the Amazonia Calling Campaign, an AIC initiative designed to expand the Amazon’s international visibility and turn global attention into concrete connections, commitments and new forms of cooperation. In partnership with IPM, the event also highlights gastronomy as a powerful tool for education, productive inclusion, the valorization of Amazonian ingredients and the preservation of the region’s culinary heritage.

More than a gastronomic experience, the Atelier helps pave the way for a broader gastrodiplomacy agenda led by AIC, connecting culture, markets, diplomacy and territorial impact.

Language: English 
June 03, 2026 | 19:00 - 22:00 (CEST)
Sabine Hueck Atelier Culinário | Kyffhäuserstraße 21, 10781 Berlin

Indigenous Leadership at the Frontline: Protecting Isolated Peoples with Territorial Governance

Indigenous Peoples' organizations from Peru and Brazil, together with Rainforest Foundation Norway, invite you to a special event during Amazon Week 2026.

Indigenous territories are among the world's most effective barriers against deforestation; yet some of the most critical forest regions in the Amazon are approaching a tipping point. Along the Peru–Brazil border, Indigenous organizations, in an unprecedented collaborative effort with governments and international partners, are leading efforts to protect more than 25 million hectares of intact rainforest, home to the world's largest concentration of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation. As deforestation, illegal extraction and climate pressures intensify across the Amazon, Indigenous territorial governance has become one of the most effective strategies for protecting biodiversity, preventing emissions and strengthening climate resilience. 

The event will explore how Indigenous-led solutions, co-management with governments and cross-border cooperation, and sustainable forest economies can help safeguard high-integrity forests and biodiversity while upholding human rights. The session will bring together Indigenous leaders from Brazil and Peru, civil society actors and international partners for keynote interventions, a panel discussion and audience Q&A.

Language: English / Portuguese / Spanish (simultaneous interpretation)
June 04, 2026 | 10:00–11:30 | Lunch & Networking 11:30–12:30 (CEST)

betahaus | Room: Innospace | Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 23, 10969 Berlin 

Making Science Together: The Role of Scientific Networks in the Amazon

Collaboration is crucial to science, as it brings together diverse perspectives, knowledge, and resources. In the Amazon region - home to the world’s greatest biodiversity, complex societies, vast urban centers, and a critical influence on the global climate - collaboration becomes even more essential. This event will explore how scientific associations and networks foster collaboration and contribute to a deeper understanding and the sustainability of this vital biome, which is essential both to local communities and to the planet as a whole. 

Language: Portuguese/English (simultaneous interpretation)
June 04, 2026 | 14:00 - 18:00 (CEST)
Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin

Brazil and Germany
Strategic partners for economy, critical minerals and climate

Amazon Week seeks to engage European partners to join forces for “Bioeconomy and sustainable development in action”. Against this backdrop, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung invites experts from politics, economy and civil society for a “Café da tarde” to discuss the opportunities of a strategic partnership between Brazil and Germany, linking business, resources, and climate issues. 

Historical connections and shared values suggest that ties between Brazil and Germany should be intensified in the interest of sustainable economic development and climate protection. The EU-Mercosur agreement, which provisionally entered into force in May, offers another opportunity. 

A climate and energy partnership between the two countries has been in place since 2008. As part of the intergovernmental consultations that took place in April in the context of Brazil and Germany co-hosting Hannover Messe, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reaffirmed their commitment to the strategic partnership. Several agreements and announcements were signed in the areas of industrial, scientific and technological cooperation, including critical and strategic minerals and climate-neutral energy generation.

We would like to invite our guests to discuss what the two countries could gain out of increased cooperation when it comes to competitiveness and climate protection, how a sustainable cooperation should be designed to be in the interest of both partners and what Germany has to offer in the face of geopolitical competition. We would also like to highlight areas where there is already successful cooperation, for example between companies or start-ups.

Language: German
June 04, 2026 | 15:00 - 16:30 (CEST)
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Academy | Tiergartenstraße 35, 10785 Berlin

Workshop on Peruvian Amazonian Cooking

Experience the vibrant flavors of the Peruvian rainforest in an immersive culinary journey through the ingredients, traditions, and techniques of the Amazon regions of Peru — where the Amazon begins. Renowned Peruvian chef Víctor Mendívil will host an exclusive workshop on Peruvian Amazonian cuisine at Atelier Culinario, the prestigious culinary space of Sabine Hueck.

Guests will discover the richness and diversity of Amazonian gastronomy through a carefully curated menu featuring traditional dishes and signature drinks from Peru’s rainforest regions, while learning about the cultural heritage and culinary techniques behind each preparation.

Limited places available.

Language: German
June 04, 2026 | 17:00 - 21:00 (CEST)
Sabine Hueck Atelier Culinário | Kyffhäuserstraße 21, 10781 Berlin

Amazongraphy – Sensing and Imagining a Cartography of Resistance

We find ourselves at a threshold of what many describe as a legal awakening, where rivers, forests, and more-than-human beings in the Amazon are increasingly recognized as subjects of rights. This shift marks the gradual intrusion of wildness into human law.

In this performed lecture, Dr. Maria Cecilia Oliveira, along with the EcoPol Research Group (RIFS Potsdam), follows the flow of the Amazon River from the Andes to the Atlantic, exploring the “rights of nature” movement through an ecofeminist and anti-authoritarian lens. Moving beyond legal texts, she focuses on the sensory, affective, and lived dimensions of how these rights are experienced and enacted.

Drawing on audiovisual methods from documentary filmmaking, the lecture invites the audience into a sensory encounter with law in the making. An “outlaw jurisprudence” shaped through everyday life, sonority, perception, and collective practice.

Language: English
June 04, 2026 | 19:00 - 20:30 (CEST)
Spore Initiative | Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin

O banho do Mucuracaá

This event is part of the broader project “Stories by Indigenous Women as Pathways for Global Learning”, which uses children’s books written by Indigenous women from different regions of Latin America as entry points for global learning. The stories are presented in bilingual formats, including Indigenous languages, and explore themes such as human–nature relationships, cultural diversity, ways of life, and traditional knowledge, encouraging reflection on sustainability and global interdependence.

As part of Amazon Week, the session will feature the story “O banho do Mucuracaá”, written by Cacica Marciane Kokama from the Alto Solimões region in the Brazilian Amazon. The event will include the launch of the animated version of the story, followed by a discussion on the importance and preservation of Indigenous languages, the role of storytelling in educational contexts, and the presence of nature in Amazonian life.

Through participatory approaches, the session fosters dialogue, critical thinking, and the recognition of diverse knowledge systems.

Language: Portuguese, English and Spanish (with simultaneous interpretation)

June 5, 2026 | 16:00 (CEST)
Online

Amazon Week for Kids: The Peoples Who Take Care of the Forest

Building on the previous edition, this year's event aims to broaden children’s perspective on the forest by highlighting the people who live in it: indigenous peoples and traditional communities. Through storytelling, music, and artistic activities in Portuguese, children will be invited to imagine daily life in the Amazon, discover its human and cultural diversity, and reflect - playfully and sensitively - on care, belonging, and responsibility for the future of the planet. 

This event is coorganized by the Embassy of Brazil in partnership with Bilingua e.V., author and illustrator Yana Marull, and Meli Bees Network gUG.

Language: Portuguese 

June 6, 2026 | 10:30 - 12:30 (CEST)
Embassy of Brazil | Wallstraße 57, 10179 Berlin