Exclusive to Insider: Day 1 at COP30 – From Promises to Implementation on Finance, Technology, and Resilience
Belém – Under humid skies at the mouth of the Amazon, COP30 opened with an unusual asset for a UN climate summit: a negotiated agenda agreed on time. After a […]
SDG News Spotlight: André Corrêa do Lago and the Architecture of Implementation at COP30
Behind the opening plenary of COP30 in Belém stood one of the most practiced hands in global climate diplomacy: Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago. Appointed by President Luiz Inácio Lula […]
Global Report Finds Climate Change Now Central to Institutional Investment Strategies
A new global analysis of more than 220 institutional investors reveals that climate change has become a defining factor in how the world’s largest asset owners and managers assess risk, […]
IDB Issues First Social Amazonia Bond Under New Sustainable Debt Framework
In New York’s capital markets, where mandates are increasingly judged as much by impact as by yield, the Inter-American Development Bank has taken a deliberate step. Under its new Sustainable […]
How the Baku to Belém Roadmap Could Rewire Global Climate Finance
In the crowded corridors outside the COP30 negotiation rooms, the most consequential document on climate finance is not a treaty text but a roadmap. Drafted jointly by the Azerbaijani COP29 […]
Exclusive to Insiders: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory and What It Means for Progressive Governance
NEW YORK CITY — On election night the cafés of Astoria pulsed with a kind of civic electricity. Taxi drivers leaned out of windows, students spilled onto Steinway Street, and volunteers […]
Exclusive to Insiders: Tropical Forest Forever Facility Launches at COP30 With $5.5 Billion and 53 Nations
A working lunch at the Belém Climate Summit turned into a decisive financing moment as leaders from more than thirty countries and the UN Secretary-General joined Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio […]
Tropical Forest Forever Facility Launches at COP30 With $5.5 Billion and 53 Nations to Transform Forest Finance
A working lunch at the Belém Climate Summit turned into a decisive financing moment as leaders from more than thirty countries and the UN Secretary-General joined Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio […]
IKEA Launches Forest Investment in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Under €100M Climate Plan
São Paulo — The roar of chainsaws that once defined Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is being replaced by the quieter rhythm of restoration. Inter IKEA Group has announced a new forest […]
EU States Back 90% Emissions Cut by 2040, Add Flexibility for Carbon Credits and Removals
Brussels — The European Union has agreed to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, setting the stage for the bloc’s long-term climate policy ahead of COP30 in […]
