Events

Building a Sustainable Future

Webinars

As demand for critical minerals continues to grow, mining expansion is accelerating, bringing significant environmental and social risks. Based on research by Future Horizons Institute and the Peruvian NGO CooperAccion, this webinar explores the importance of national regulations and responsible investment practices in order to ensure high ESG standards in mineral supply chains.
Best Practice vs. Regulation: Sustainability Challenges in Supply Chains for Critical Minerals
To advance the sustainable transformation of China–Brazil agricultural trade, in this webinar, we discuss the findings of Future Horizons Institute's research in Brazil. The session brings together stakeholders to examine climate risks, supply chain governance, and market incentives, and to explore pathways for cooperation in sustainable agriculture.
Strengthening Sustainable Trade for Food Security Pathways towards Sustainability in the China–Brazil Soy Trade
What impact will the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) have on global deforestation? In this webinar, we examine findings from Project Bedrock’s ex-ante impact assessment, insights from stakeholders in Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, and Europe, and the key mechanisms required for the EUDR to achieve its intended goals.
What will the EUDR deliver? Insights from research and stakeholder perceptions
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

Workshop

Workshop for researchers and civil

society organisations

Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417,

6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro

16 October 2024

Workshop

Sustainable commodities for

climate, nature and people: Learning from the past, investing in the future

Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417,

6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro

16 October 2024

Workshop

Sustainability in Global Commodity

Supply Chains:Challenges and

Achievements for a Fair and

Sustainable World

Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417,

6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro

16 October 2024

Events

Report launch
Strengthening Sustainable Trade for Food Security and Clean Energy

BRICS Policy Center, Ria das Laranjeiras 307, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

29 May 2026
Conference
Emerging Markets Investors Alliance Sustainability and Governance Forum
Alliance Bernstein, 60 London Wall, London EC2M 5SH

15 September 2025
Workshop
Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: Learning from the past, investing in the future
Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417, 6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro
16 October 2024
Workshop
Workshop for researchers and civil society organisations

Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417, 6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro
16 October 2024
G20 side event
Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: "Learning from the past, investing in the future"
BRICS Policy Center, Rua das Laranjeiras 307, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

15 October 2024

Report launch
Strengthening Sustainable Trade for Food Security and Clean Energy

BRICS Policy Center, Ria das Laranjeiras 307, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

29 May 2026
Conference
Emerging Markets Investors Alliance Sustainability and Governance Forum
Alliance Bernstein, 60 London Wall, London EC2M 5SH

15 September 2025
Workshop
Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: Learning from the past, investing in the future
Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417, 6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro
16 October 2024
Workshop
Workshop for researchers and civil society organisations

Federal Rural University Av. Presidente Vargas 417, 6 Floor, City Center, Rio de Janeiro
16 October 2024
G20 side event
Sustainable commodities for climate, nature and people: "Learning from the past, investing in the future"
BRICS Policy Center, Rua das Laranjeiras 307, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

15 October 2024