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The Jandyras Network is a network of young Amazonian women from Belém, aged 18 to 35, created to face in an intersectional way the effects of the climate crisis in the city, such as the recurring floods in the outskirts. Launched the Climate Agenda for Belém (2021) and managed to include the Municipal Climate Change Forum in the PPA 2022-2025, becoming a reference in the urban Amazon.
The Jandyras Network is a network of young Amazonian women from Belém, aged 18 to 35, created to face in an intersectional way the effects of the climate crisis in the city, such as the recurring floods in the outskirts. Launched the Climate Agenda for Belém (2021) and managed to include the Municipal Climate Change Forum in the PPA 2022-2025, becoming a reference in the urban Amazon.
Brazil presents a strong regional differentiation in climate vulnerability between its 5 regions and 6 biomes — from the semi-arid Northeast to the Amazon, from the Pantanal to the metropolises of the Southeast and South —, which requires instruments capable of translating this territorial diversity into concrete and legitimate political demands for each community.
Expand the political participation of women in Belém's environmental issues, produce data and concrete proposals for climate mitigation and adaptation for the city, and institutionalize permanent spaces for debate between public authorities and civil society on the climate crisis.
Creation of the Climate Agenda for Belém (2021), with proposals in 5 axes (childhood, water/sanitation, housing, racial justice and mobility); presentation to the City Council, with 8 councilors signing a letter of commitment; approval of the creation of a Municipal Forum on Climate Change, incorporated into the PPA 2022-2025; and holding the first special session on climate change in the Chamber’s history. The network operates across three permanent axes: advocacy, social mobilization and climate education.
Amazonian women from Belém (40 trained and between 20 and 30 permanent members), focusing on black, riverside, indigenous and traditional communities on the outskirts and at-risk areas, and the population of Belém affected by intense rains and recurrent floods.
The network was born from a free online training in which 40 women aged 18 to 35 participated, the majority of whom were non-white, who collectively built their own network from it. After graduating, the members become multipliers for other women and young people in Belém.
Training of 40 women (mostly non-white, 18-35 years old) via the "Environmental Articulators Network"; permanent network of 20-30 women; Climate Agenda for Belém to the City Council, focusing on local adaptation (floods, extreme heat, vulnerable areas); approval of the Municipal Climate Change Forum in the PPA 2022-2025, with resilience and adaptation goals; 1st thematic session on the topic in the history of the Chamber; and participation in "De Baku a Belém" (LACLIMA) and Café B (Dec/2024).
Eduarda Gonçalves and Iah Araújo, Rede Jandyras. Web: https://redejandyras.org ; Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redejandyras/
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Belém faces rising sea levels, rising temperatures and a greater volume of rain, with peripheries — especially black, riverside and indigenous people — at greater vulnerability. According to the Belém Climate Panel (CBJC, Casa Fluminense and Observatório das Baixadas), 70% of the city's homes are under extreme heat and 75% of black people live in areas at risk of flooding; The Legal Urban Amazon project identifies 101 subnormal agglomerations in the capital of Pará.
The Jandyras Network's operations take place at the epicenter of Brazil's new climate centrality: Belém hosted COP30 in November 2025, which increased visibility and political pressure on municipal management to advance its own climate policy, in dialogue with Law 14,904/2024 (which requires adaptation plans) and the federal government's Climate Plan 2024-2035.
Mandí (formerly Ame o Tucunduba, the organization that originated the "Rede de Articuladoras Ambientais" project); Canteiros Verdes and Cidade Viva (organizations added to the network); Belém City Council (8 councilors who signed the letter of commitment); Pólis Institute and Legal Urban Amazon project (base data for the Climate Agenda); LACLIMA and System B (participation in climate coordination events).
As a facilitating element, the plural and intersectional nature of the network stands out as it brings together researchers from different areas and women from different experiences, which strengthens the legitimacy and technical quality of the proposals. On the other hand, as a conditioning factor, there was the challenge of defining priorities within such a comprehensive topic and gathering reliable data to support each Agenda proposal in a short space of time.
Greater representation of women in political decision-making spaces in Belém, direct influence on municipal public policies (Municipal Forum and PPA), and strengthening of the population's awareness of environmental racism in the urban Amazon.
The methodology for training environmental articulators and building municipal climate agendas is replicable in other capitals and medium-sized cities in the Amazon and Brazil. It requires a committed local collective, an organization that promotes initial training, access to territorial data and openness of the City Council to receive proposals.
Sustained by the institutionalization of achievements (Municipal Forum provided for in the PPA 2022-2025) and by the continuity of the network as a permanent collective, although dependent on the voluntary willingness of members and occasional occasional financial support.
Official website of Rede Jandyras: https://redejandyras.org ; Report “Rede Jandyras: a swarm fighting for nature and democracy” (Escola de Activismo): https://escoladeativismo.org.br/rede-jandyras-um-enxame-em-luta-pela-natureza-e-pela-democracia/ ; Belém Climate Panel (CBJC / Casa Fluminense / Observatório das Baixadas): https://cbjcc.hub.arcgis.com/pages/painelclimaticodebelem ; Belém Metropolitan Region data panel (PDF report, Casa Fluminense): https://casafluminense.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Painel-de-dados-Regiao-Metropolitana-de-Belem-1.pdf