Brazil has opened three weeks of climate-related events ahead of COP30, seeking to rekindle global commitment to tackling climate change amid economic volatility and eroding international cooperation. From São Paulo to Belém, leaders, investors, and civil society are converging to signal that multilateral climate ambition is not yet lost. Business
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Panama City — The second day of the Nature Summit placed a powerful spotlight on the leadership, wisdom, and resilience of Indigenous peoples, reminding the world that solutions to the planet’s greatest challenges often begin in the forests, mountains, and coastal territories of those who have protected nature for generations.
In what scientists are calling a breakthrough moment for conservation technology, the Bezos Earth Fund has awarded $1.8 million to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics to develop new artificial intelligence systems that can “listen” to the planet. The initiative aims to detect real-time
October 28, 2025, Panama City – The Nature Summit opened today in Panama City alongside the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), bringing together ministers, Indigenous leaders, innovators, and financiers driving the world’s emerging nature-based economy. The invitation-only forum is the second installment of the Nature Summit Series, following its debut
The Amazon’s Moral Compass Ahead of COP30 As the world prepares to gather in Belém for COP30, the first United Nations Climate Change Conference to be hosted in the heart of the Amazon, few figures embody the region’s spiritual, ecological, and political significance like Martín von Hildebrand. For more than
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has postponed full enforcement of its flagship deforestation law, giving companies more time to comply with one of the world’s most ambitious environmental trade regulations. The phased rollout, announced this week, reflects concerns that the EU’s digital infrastructure for processing due-diligence submissions is not yet
UNITED NATIONS — With COP30 set to convene in Belém, Brazil, global attention is turning to one of the world’s most underfunded yet essential climate priorities: forests. According to the new State of Finance for Forests report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), annual investments in forests must more than
Investor bloc moves ahead of COP in Brazil A coalition of institutional investors managing more than 3 trillion dollars in assets is calling on governments to adopt enforceable measures to stop and reverse deforestation by 2030. The group warns that continued forest loss poses material financial risks to global markets
Gretchen Daily has helped redefine what it means to create wealth. At a time when economic systems still treat nature as an externality, she has built an entirely new framework for prosperity, one that counts forests, rivers, and wetlands as assets rather than costs. Through her groundbreaking work, she has
