In Belém, as COP30 brought global attention back to the Amazon, Brazil made one of its most strategic climate governance announcements in years: the creation of Ecora, a national carbon credit certifier designed to reshape the architecture of Brazil’s carbon markets and anchor the country’s rising influence in the global
Under the dense canopy of Pará’s eastern frontier, the Inter-American Development Bank chose COP30 to introduce a new financial instrument with the potential to shift how the world restores the Amazon. The announcement marked a breakthrough not only for Brazil but for multilateral development finance: the first guarantee ever issued
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, allocate capital, and engage with policymakers. Released ahead of COP30 in Belém, the Global State of Investor Climate Action report
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 Debt Framework, the IDB has issued a 100 million dollar Social Amazonia Bond, designed to channel funding into social priorities
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 presidency and the Brazilian COP30 presidency, the Baku to Belém roadmap attempts to answer the question left hanging in Baku:
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 investment project in southern Brazil — a pilot that blends commercial forestry with ecosystem recovery — as part of its
Floodwaters continue to reshape coastlines from the Caribbean to coastal Bangladesh, where the front line of climate change now runs through local budgets and public-works departments. Into that fragile space, a new financing model has begun to flow. Climate Fund Managers, together with MUFG Bank, FinDev Canada, and the Green
A stunning rally in global clean-tech markets has defied political headwinds in the United States, with green stocks soaring nearly 50% this year—outpacing most other equity benchmarks and signaling renewed investor confidence in the low-carbon economy. The surge comes even as President Donald Trump dismantles federal support for renewable energy,
Our strategy is evolving. When we started Conserve Safari, our focus was on performance — high-yield real estate, risk-adjusted returns, and generating alpha. Numbers are still important — they’re what make operations financially sustainable, but there’s more to it. I believe that conservation and community impact are not separate from
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the global economy — but they remain one of the most underfunded segments in the race to net zero. A new report by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Sage, released ahead of COP30, warns that without targeted reforms in
