Two linked panels on Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples' climate resistance and territorial stewardship. Holding a publication launch and the cross-regional dialogue back-to-back, under one shared roof and one shared audience, lets GFLC and AMPB make a single, cumulative argument to funders and decision-makers: (1) there is documented, systematized evidence — from the ground up — of what Local Communities are already achieving in one region (Mesoamerica); and (2) there is proof that the same pattern of territorial defense, self-organization, and concrete ecosystem results repeats across Asian, Africa and Latin American geographies, which is precisely the rationale for a permanent, cross-convention platform rather than one-off, region-specific engagement. Panel 1 — Launch of the systematization of Mesoamerica's Local Communities: a dialogue with experiences at the global level 14:00 – 16:00 (Anthropology Lounge) Objective: Present funders and decision-makers with systematized evidence of how Mesoamerican Local Communities defend and manage their territories—and situate that Mesoamerican experience within a wider, global pattern of Local Community-led climate and biodiversity action that GFLC is documenting across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Panel 2 — Inter-regional dialogue on territorial management by Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities and Afro-descendant Peoples 16:00 – 18:00 (Wolff Room) Objective: Bring together, in a single space, Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-descendants leaders from Asia, Africa, and Latin America for a direct dialogue on the shared challenges of defending their territories and on concrete ecosystem protection and restoration initiatives already underway — built around common ground (territorial defense, solutions that already work) rather than differences in their sources of rights.