Climate governance is frequently organised around scientific expertise that informs policy responses to the climate crisis. However, the production and mobilisation of evidence are embedded within historically constituted hierarchies of knowledge and epistemologies that shape which knowledge is recognised as legitimate in environmental decision-making. This project investigates how such hierarchies are reproduced, negotiated, and potentially transformed within processes that connect climate science and public policy in the Amazon.

A seminar-dialogue between Taís Sonetti González (Postdoctoral Fellow, Unicamp, Brazil) and Jade de Cock de Rameyen (Postdoctoral Researcher, WELCHANGE/NarChoFor, FNRS) on their participatory, arts-based and transdisciplinary approaches to socio-environmental issues from the AmazonFACE experiment in the Amazon to children's collaborative storytelling on the futures of the Ardennes forest. Presentations, dialogue between the two projects, and an open discussion with participants.

Taís's research investigates how hierarchies of knowledge are reproduced, negotiated and transformed at the science–policy interface in the Amazon, drawing on the AmazonFACE experiment, the first large-scale CO₂ enrichment experiment in a tropical rainforest, and on collaborative workshops bringing together scientists, policymakers, and representatives of Indigenous Peoples, Traditional and Local Communities.

Jade's work, within the WELCHANGE project NarChoFor (Children's Narrative Chorus of the Forest), develops an experimental deliberative methodology in which children of the Ardennes engage, through collaborative storytelling, with the long-term and more-than-human stakes of forest management.