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How can climate finance accelerate the transition to sustainable livestock systems across Latin America and the Caribbean? With COP30 approaching, this webinar will examine how financial instruments and policy innovation can help the region’s livestock sector move toward low-emission and resilient pathways.
Climate Finance for Sustainable Livestock in Latin America and the Caribbean – Pathways toward COP30
Latin America is at the heart of this race. With most of the world’s lithium, vast copper reserves, and major deposits of nickel and rare earths, the region holds enormous potential. But how can it turn resource wealth into sustainable development and industrial strength?
What is Latin America’s leverage in the global race for critical minerals?
Assessing Nature and Biodiversity Related Financial Risks

As the World Economic Forum warns, biodiversity loss could lead to a global crisis. In this webinar, we discuss how NBIM, one of the world’s largest pension funds, and Robeco, a leading asset manager in sustainability, are tackling these challenges, including data management, TNFD reporting, risk management strategies, and nature-positive investments.
This webinar explores global changes in the global arena since the Trump administration came into office, and the extent to which these changes reflect structural transformations that will persist and condition international relations in the coming decades. How deep is the strategic divide between Western countries? To what extent does the current situation depict the realities of a multipolar world? What remains of the global community's ability to respect a set of international norms and to cooperate within multilateral institutions in a meaningful way?
The New International Disorder
Carbon Credits and Livestock: Lessons from Brazil
The webinar explores Brazil's experience with carbon credit schemes in the livestock sector and its possible application in West Africa. Specialists from Brazil, Ghana, and Nigeria share insights on data requirements, certification processes, and cross-sector lessons that could shape the future of sustainable livestock systems.
How can we tackle global challenges like climate change and inequality? Blended finance offers a solution, combining public funds with private investments to de-risk projects and unlock capital for sustainable impact. Yet, its potential hinges on navigating complex risk, return, and impact—especially in the world’s most challenging regions.
What will it take to scale impact through blended finance?
As the year draws to a close, it is an opportune time to take stock of the 2024 election outcomes and examine how they bode for the world's future.
Join us for a conversation with experts from leading global institutions as we unpack the lessons learned from 2024 and envision a path forward for democracy in an era of unprecedented global challenges.
2024: The Election Year in Retrospect
The focus of this webinar will be the shift in world order towards multipolarity and, particularly, toward increasingly influential financial and trade partnerships between China with emerging powers in South America and Africa, as well as the expansion of mechanisms of South- South cooperation through G20 and BRICS venues.
Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: Learning from the past, investing in the future
As climate change intensifies, communities around the world are experiencing more frequent floods, droughts, and storms, underscoring the urgent need for adaptation strategies.
Climate Adaptation and Resilient Infrastructure
Critical minerals are needed for the green energy transition, but mining may pose threats to biodiversity, impacting Earth's ability to sustain life, and affecting communities, companies and investors. However, new technologies and industry practices offer potential solutions.
Navigating the Green Energy Transition: Biodiversity, Critical Minerals, and Sustainable Solutions
This webinar provides insights into the Brazil-China soy trade, including the sustainability risks in Brazil’s soy sector, particularly deforestation, land-use change, and smallholder exclusion. It also explores how China’s voluntary sustainability efforts compare with the EU’s stricter regulatory approach and ESG implications and provides recommendations for investors and policymakers.
Brazil: Agricultural Commodity Trends
Future Horizons Institute's Claudia Melim-McLeod and Daniel Yiu discuss their research on the latest ESG regulatory trends and developments in China, including new reporting requirements for listed companies, the relevance for the government of transition finance and ESG awareness, as well as the impact on asset managers and ESG investing.
China: Recent Changes in ESG Disclosure Guidelines