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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
