COP30, held in Belém, Brazil, from 10-21 November 2025, marks a historic moment for global climate action. Taking place in the heart of the Amazon, ten years after Paris and twenty after Kyoto, the summit is a crucial opportunity to align global finance with nature, economies, and people.
NatureFinance’s engagement at COP30 will focus on making financial systems and economies more resilient in a rapidly warming world. We’ll be highlighting our work on debt sustainability, insurance and adaptation finance, and innovative mechanisms for scaling the bioeconomy and nature credit markets.
Our COP30 agenda is evolving as partnerships and sessions take shape. We’ll be updating this page regularly with new events, times, venues, and registration links as we get closer to the summit. For more information on any of the events below, contact joanna.omalley@naturefinance.net.
Urban biodiversity credits: A nature-based solution for climate adaptation in the cities of the Amazon
Date: Monday, 10 November | Time: 15:30 – 16:30 BRT | Location: Amazônia Sempre Station, Goeldi Museum – Auditorium
This event, organised by Nature & People Foundation with NatureFinance and IDB, will explore how high-integrity urban biodiversity credits can deliver vital ecosystem services to meet climate adaptation and environmental challenges in cities across the Amazon, Brazil and beyond. It will highlight how this approach can unlock new sources of finance for urban areas and showcase pioneering cities like Manaus and Rio de Janeiro.
Speakers: Jeremy Eppel (Director, Nature & People Foundation), Sara Eppel (Senior Advisor, Nature & People Foundation), Henrique Pereira (Director, National Institute for Amazonian Research), Tatiana Schor (Head of Civil Society, Inter-American Development Bank), Arend Kulenkampff (Lead, Innovative Finance for Nature Lab, NatureFinance), David Antônio Abisai Pereira de Almeida (Mayor, City of Manaus)
No Blue Zone access required.
Project launch: Full protection environmental assets in the Brazilian Amazon
Date: Wednesday, 12 November | Time: 13:45 – 15:00 BRT | Location: Legal Amazon Consortium Pavilion, Blue Zone
This session, co-hosted by the Legal Amazon Consortium and NatureFinance, will present a new biodiversity credit initiative that builds on Brazil’s robust legal framework for environmental protection. It will explore how Payments for Environmental Services can underpin a high-integrity market-based model that rewards conservation, attracts private investment, and supports fiscal sustainability in Amazonian states.
Speakers: Luana Maia (Global Brazil Lead, NatureFinance), Marcello Brito (COP30 Special Envoy to the Amazon states), Vanessa Duarte Emenergildo (Executive Director, Legal Amazon Consortium), Pedro Firmo (Coordinator, Legal Amazon Consortium)
This event will be held in Portuguese.
Blue Zone access required.
Scaling credit enhancement for private capital mobilization
Date: Friday, 14 November 2025 | Time: 12:30 – 13:30 BRT | Location: Thematic Hub – Blue Zone
Hosted by the Sustainable Sovereign Debt Hub, NatureFinance, the Inter-American Development Bank and others, this session will launch the Taskforce on Credit Enhancement’s recommendations to scale sustainability-linked sovereign financing through stronger collaboration among MDBs, DFIs, and climate funds. It will explore how credit-enhanced sustainability-linked transactions can expand access to affordable, long-term financing and helping countries align debt sustainability with climate, nature, and development goals.
Speakers: Arend Kulenkampff (Innovation Finance Lead, Sustainable Sovereign Debt Hub/NatureFinance), Tatiana C. Alves (Sector Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank), Alain Beauvillard (Director, Department of Strategy, Policy, and Innovation, Green Climate Fund), Barbara Buchner (Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative), Marisa Drew (Chief Sustainability Officer, Standard Chartered), Marika Rueter (Head of Sustainability Strategy Development, AXA), Saoirse Jones
(Global Head Public Sector Solutions, Zurich Resilience Solutions), Per Fredrik Pharo (Director, NORAD), Jennifer Morris, (Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy), Dr. Sam Mugume (Co-chair, Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action)
Blue Zone access required.
What are the best financial instruments and strategies for advancing the Bioeconomy in the Pan-Amazon region?
Date: Saturday, 15 November 2025 | Time: 09:30 – 10:30 BRT | Location: Amazônia Sempre Station, Goeldi Museum – Chalet
Hosted by NatureFinance, WRI Brasil, and the Pan-Amazon Network for Bioeconomy, this panel will present findings from a pioneering study mapping 141 financial mechanisms across nine Amazon countries. The discussion will identify success factors, barriers, and collaborative strategies for scaling inclusive bioeconomy finance in the region.
Speakers: Gustavo Martins (Senior Associate, Global Brazil, NatureFinance), Joana Oliveira (Executive Secretary, Pan-Amazon Network for Bioeconomy, WRI Brasil), Julia Mascarello (General Coordinator of Production Structure and Sustainability, Ministry of Finance, Brazil), Luana Maia (Global Brazil Lead, NatureFinance), Jose Mauro O’ de Almeida (Partnerships Coordinator, COP30 Presidency), Daniel Contrucci (Executive Director, Climate Ventures), Mariana Sarmiento (Biodiversity Corporate Strategy and Public Policy Expert, Terrasos), Ian Nellessen Lazoski (Co-Founder, Impact Bank)
No Blue Zone access required.
From risk to resilience: Financing the bioeconomy-climate transition
Date: Saturday, 15 November 2025 | Time: 15:30 – 16:30 BRT | Location: Amazônia Sempre Station, Goeldi Museum – Chalet
Co-hosted by NatureFinance and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), this session will explore how investment in the bioeconomy can drive resilience and equity in a world moving beyond 1.5°C. Linking policy and finance, it will highlight pathways to integrate nature and climate risk into macroeconomic, credit, and investment frameworks.
Speakers: Ruth Davis OBE (UK Special Representative for Nature), Luana Maia (Global Brazil Lead, NatureFinance), Verónica Gálmez Márquez (Sector Lead Specialist, Amazonia Coordination Unit, IDB), Marcelo Behar (COP30 Special Envoy for the Bioeconomy), Carina Mendonça Pimenta (Vice Minister for Bioeconomy, Bioeconomy Challenge), Stuart Cannon (Climate Change Manager, Private Infrastructure Development Group), Stanley Nkhuwa (Lead Coordinating Officer – Natural Capital Accounting for Zambia, Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Zambia)
No Blue Zone access required.
Official launch event: Bioeconomy Challenge
Date: Monday, 17 November 2025 | Time: 12:00 – 13:30 BRT | Location: SE Room Parnaíba (Theatre), Blue Zone
In partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, this high-level event will officially launch the Bioeconomy Challenge — a global, multi-stakeholder platform designed to translate global bioeconomy principles into measurable actions and scalable solutions by 2028.
Part of the COP30 Action Agenda (Goal 29 – Bioeconomy and Biotechnology), this three-year initiative aligns with a historic milestone: for the first time, the bioeconomy is formally recognized within the COP process as a strategic pathway to accelerate progress towards the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
Blue Zone access required.
Financial flows for the Pan-Amazonian bioeconomy: Lessons learned and ways to catalyse investments
Date: Tuesday, 18 November 2025 | Time: 9:30 – 11:00 BRT | Location: Brazil Pavilion, Green Zone
Co-hosted by the Pan-Amazonian Network for the Bioeconomy and NatureFinance, this session will explore how financial flows can better support the growth of a sustainable bioeconomy across the Pan-Amazon region. Drawing on recent studies and real-world experiences, the discussion will highlight successful financing models, identify barriers and opportunities, and propose ways to design inclusive, adaptable, and high-integrity mechanisms aligned with territorial realities.
Speakers: Joana Oliveira (Executive Secretary, Pan-Amazonian Network for the Bioeconomy), Marcelo Cwerner (Amazon Investor Coalition & Pan-Amazonian Network for the Bioeconomy – Moderator), Luana Maia (NatureFinance), Andre Anjos (BTG Pactual), Puninda Thind (UN Climate Champions)
Related resources
- Our latest report Growing a sustainable bioeconomy through trade and international cooperation outlines practical pathways for the G20 to design trade and finance mechanisms that scale the bioeconomy and support equitable, sustainable economic transformation.
- If you’re interested in how sustainability targets can strengthen sovereign credit ratings and debt sustainability, check out our report Nature as a Shock Absorber: A Financial Materiality Assessment of Forestry-Linked Sovereign Indicators in Ghana.
