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.
Project launch: Full protection environmental assets in the Brazilian Amazon
Date: Wednesday, 12 November | Time: 13:45 – 16:00 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 (PSA) can underpin a high-integrity market-based model that rewards conservation, attracts private investment, and supports fiscal sustainability in Amazonian states.
Urban biodiversity credits: A nature-based solution for climate adaptation in the cities of the Amazon
Date: Monday, 10 November | Location: IDB Amazon Forever Venue, Goeldi Museum, Yellow Zone
This session will explore how urban biodiversity credits can strengthen resilience in Amazonian cities through mobilizing finance for nature-based solutions. Showcasing pilots in Manaus and other cities, the discussion will highlight collaboration between Nature & People Foundation, NatureFinance, IDB, BNDES, the City of Manaus, C40, Cities4Forests, and others to integrate biodiversity restoration into urban planning through locally informed, science-based approaches.
Nature as a shock absorber: Integrating the bioeconomy into sovereign debt and credit resilience
Date: Thursday, 13 November | Location: Assembleia Paraense, Belém
This session will examine how bioeconomy-aligned natural capital can enhance sovereign creditworthiness and debt sustainability. Drawing on NatureFinance’s Financial Materiality Assessment (FIMA) Framework, it will outline how investments in the bioeconomy can improve fiscal resilience through sustainability-linked sovereign bonds, debt swaps and outcome-based financing. The discussion will bring together ministries of finance, investors, and development institutions to assess the policy and market changes needed to make nature a core component of financial stability and sovereign resilience.
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: Amazon Station Forever, Goeldi Museum – Eduardo Galvão Auditorium, Yellow Zone
Hosted by NatureFinance, Impact Bank, WRI, and the Pan-Amazonian Network for Bioeconomy, this panel will present findings from a 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.
From risk to resilience: Financing the bioeconomy-climate transition
Date: Saturday, 15 November 2025 | Time: 15:30–16:30 BRT | Location: Estação Amazônia Sempre, Parque Zoobotânico – Museu Emilio Goeldi, Yellow Zone
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.
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.
