CPI at COP30
Climate Policy Initiative experts will host and speak at a series of events during COP30 in Belém, Brazil, as well as at key pre-COP events taking place in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.
All times below are in Brasília Time.
COP30 Local Leaders Forum in Rio de Janeiro
3-5 November 2025
C40 World Mayors Summit 2025
Tuesday, 4 November
The C40 World Mayors Summit will convene hundreds of mayors, governors, and local leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis, all committed to placing communities and local priorities at the center of climate action. The Summit represents a pivotal moment for city-led climate leadership. It will showcase innovative urban solutions from around the world, demonstrate the power of delivery-focused collaboration, and build momentum toward COP30.
CPI’s Global Managing Director, Barbara Buchner, will moderate a high-level discussion with leading global mayors on how cities are advancing climate finance, engaging investors, and developing innovative funding approaches to strengthen urban resilience and drive a just, sustainable transition.
UN Climate Change Global Innovation Forum – From Local Action to Global Impact: Subnational Climate Action and Financing
Wednesday, 5 November
Colegio Brasiliero de Altos Estudos (CBAE)
At the UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub’s First Global Innovation Forum, CPI will be represented by Kristiina Yang. She will speak in the roundtable “From Local Action to Global Impact: Subnational Climate Action and Financing,” co-organized by the State Government of Rio de Janeiro and Climate Group. The session will bring together subnational leaders, financiers, and innovators to align local climate priorities with scalable, investment-ready solutions and explore innovation opportunities, financing pathways, and collaboration models to accelerate climate action on the ground.
Pre-COP events in São Paulo
3-8 November 2025
Investor Company Forum
Tuesday, 4 November; 8:00-12:00
Breakout Room C, Anhembi Convention Centre, São Paulo, Brazil
The Investor-Company Forum will bring together stewardship and investment professionals, corporate investor relations and sustainability teams, technical experts, and other stakeholders for a candid dialogue under Chatham House Rule.
Reality check: Are companies ready for climate shocks?
Tuesday, 4 November; 11:00-13:00
Room Itaim, Tivoli Mofarrej São Paulo, Alameda Santos
The MSCI Sustainability Institute will organize this invitation-only interactive forum to unveil findings from a new global survey on corporate resilience to extreme weather. The session will explore how investors and companies can better understand, price, and build resilience to physical climate risk through two interlinked discussions: first, on how markets are assessing the financial materiality of physical risks and where corporate preparedness still falls short; and second, on what is needed to align corporate action with investor expectations, adaptation finance, and public policy.
CPI Senior Advisor Vikram Widge will participate in the forum.
PRI in Person
Wednesday, 5 November; 14:30 – 15:30
Anhembi Convention Centre
Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director of CPI, will moderate the session Responsible investment in Latin America: building the enabling environment. The discussion will examine developments in Latin America’s policy and regulatory landscape related to sustainable finance and consider how investors and policymakers can work together to strengthen frameworks that support sustainable investment. It will explore reforms such as ISSB-aligned disclosures, green taxonomies, and climate-risk supervision by regulators, and how collaboration among policymakers, regulators, asset owners, and investment managers can align investment practices and public policy with climate and biodiversity objectives.
Shaping the Future of Climate Finance in Brazil
Wednesday, 5 November; 16:00-19:00
Climate finance is crucial to advance Brazil’s transition to a low-carbon economy, enhance forest protection, boost climate resilience, and mitigate socio-economic vulnerabilities. Yet, mobilizing resources at the scale required to address the climate challenges faced in Brazil demands a reform of the financial architecture.
CPI will host this event, which will explore the progress made in recent years in advancing climate finance in Brazil, highlighting key achievements and initiatives that are about to be launched.
The discussion will also address the barriers and needs that remain for the next years, while pointing to opportunities and outlining next steps for reforming Brazil’s financial architecture and mobilizing resources where they are most needed.
Contact caroline.dreyer@cpiglobal.org if you are interested in attending.
Sustainable Innovation Forum
Thursday, 6 November; 14:05-14:45
Renaissance São Paulo Hotel
Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director at CPI, will speak on the Sustainable Innovation Forum panel Building climate resilience: Advancing adaptation strategies globally. She will share CPI perspectives on integrating physical climate risk into investment decisions, strengthening adaptation finance frameworks, scaling resilient infrastructure and nature-based solutions, and directing capital to vulnerable communities and emerging markets, drawing on practical mechanisms, data-driven insights, and lessons from blended finance and guarantees.
Mobilizing Private Climate Finance: The Role of Insurance in De-Risking
Thursday, 6 November; 14:00-15:15
Anhembi Convention Centre
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with CPI, is convening a private roundtable during PRI in Person 2025 to explore how the insurance sector can play a pivotal role in de-risking climate finance in emerging markets.
Through this session, WEF and CPI aim to spark new collaborations, policy solutions, and demonstration projects that connect insurance innovation with the urgent need to unlock investment for a just, resilient, and sustainable transition in emerging markets. This roundtable will bring together industry leaders, investors, policymakers, and development partners to rethink how insurance can evolve from a passive risk-transfer tool to an active driver of resilience and capital mobilization.
From COP to Capital: Data and Standards for Scaling Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
Friday, 7 November; 9:00-12:00
The New Zealand Consulate
Vikram Widge, Senior Advisor at CPI, will speak on this panel, organized by Bentley Systems, Global Infrastructure Basel, PSP Hub, FAST-Infra, and Infrastructure Policy Advancement. The discussion will consider how technology and standards can support the ambitions of the Baku to Belém Roadmap to scale sustainable and resilient infrastructure development and investment, with a focus on aligning public and private finance to mobilize USD 1.3 trillion annually by 2035.
Climatenomics: The Investment Momentum
Thursday, 7 November; 10:00-12:30
Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director at CPI, will present findings from the Global Landscape of Climate Finance 2025 during the opening keynote of Climatenomics: The Investment Momentum, hosted by ACCIONA. Her presentation will provide an overview of global climate finance flows, outlining how much capital is being mobilized, from which sources, and into which sectors, to help frame discussions on translating climate ambition into investment and implementation.
Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Endorsement Meeting
Thursday, 7 November
CPI will host the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance Endorsement Meeting, an invite-only session where finalists present their instruments for endorsement by Lab members. The Lab identifies, develops, and launches innovative financial instruments that can unlock investment for climate action in developing economies. Since its creation, it has mobilized billions in sustainable investment and built a global network of public and private partners working to scale effective climate finance solutions.
Climate Implementation Summit
Friday, 8 November
Renaissance São Paulo Hotel
The COP30 Presidency has placed implementation at the center of its vision, emphasizing collective action and the vital role of non-state actors in achieving the Paris Agreement goals. Rooted in Brazil’s tradition of solidarity, the Presidency’s call for a “mutirão” invites companies, financial institutions, philanthropies, and broader society to take practical steps to address climate change. Within this context, the Climate Implementation Summit, organized by the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS), will serve as a strategic platform to highlight real-world solutions and investments that embody this spirit of collaboration. In alignment with the COP30 Action Agenda and the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap, the Summit will bring together leaders from across sectors to showcase transformative initiatives already driving climate progress and to build momentum for implementation ahead of COP30 in Belém.
Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director at CPI, will moderate Panel 1: Lessons in Capital Mobilization. The discussion will explore climate finance flows in Brazil and highlight the range of investable financial instruments developed to advance climate goals. Panelists will discuss the role of public-private collaboration and capital markets in designing and scaling climate finance solutions, as well as key lessons learned from their implementation.
COP30 in Belém
10-21 November 2025
Catalyzing Green Capital: Innovative Finance for Brazil’s Pasture Regeneration
Monday, 10 November; 16:40-17:55
AgriZone Auditório 3, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental
At COP30 in Belém, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Climate Policy Initiative will co-organize an in-person side event in the Agrizone focused on financing large-scale pasture regeneration in Brazil. Building on their recent joint learning roundtable in Brasília, the session will bring together public, private, and philanthropic actors to explore innovative and blended finance mechanisms that can support the restoration of degraded pastures under Brazil’s Green Pathway. The event will feature CPI’s Phillipe Kafer, as moderator.
GCF.10: A Decade of Impact
Monday, 10 November; 18:30 – 20:00
Side Event Room 1
Barbara Buchner will speak on the high-level panel at the Green Climate Fund’s official COP30 side event marking the Fund’s tenth anniversary. The session will reflect on a decade of GCF’s impact in mobilizing climate finance for developing countries and explore how the global climate finance architecture can evolve to meet today’s climate and development challenges. Barbara will join other leaders to discuss lessons from GCF’s first decade and priorities for scaling investment, strengthening partnerships, and enhancing the efficiency and impact of climate finance in the years ahead.
From Ambition to Action: Unlocking Climate-SDG Synergies
Thursday, 13 November; 13:15-14:45
Barbara Buchner will speak at the UN-system side event From Ambition to Action: Unlocking Climate–SDG Synergies. The discussion will build on the findings of the 2025 Global Report and the outcomes of the Sixth Global Synergies Conference, highlighting how integrated approaches can translate ambition into measurable results. The session will feature practical examples, policy innovations, and dialogue across sectors to advance synergy-driven planning and investment.
From Baku to Belém and from Belém to Implementation: Delivering the $1.3 Trillion Goal
Saturday, 15 November; 11:10-12:00
World Climate Impact Hub Pavilion
Barbara Buchner will speak at this session co-organized by the World Climate Foundation and the Institute for Climate and Society (iCS) at the World Climate Impact Hub Pavilion in the COP30 Blue Zone. The discussion will focus on how the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap and the Circle of Finance Ministers’ Final Report can guide the shift from design to implementation in scaling up climate finance, highlighting priorities for aligning financial systems and mobilizing USD 1.3 trillion annually by 2035.
Scaling Forest Finance: Leveraging Trade Relationships and Policy Enablers for Tropical Forests
Monday, 17 November; 13:15-14:45
Side Event Room 3
Juliano Assunção will speak at this session co-organized by Climate Policy Initiative, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Global Canopy (GC) and KfW at the Side Event Room 3. The discussion will bring together experts and country representatives to explore how trade relationships and national policies can be harnessed to strengthen and scale up finance in support of forest conservation and a just transition.
Forests as Climate Solutions: Transforming Tropical Forests into High-Impact Climate Assets
Thursday, 20 November; 09:30-10:30
Special Envoy for Forests Space
Climate Policy Initiative is organizing an event at the Special Envoy for Forests Space. The discussion will explore existing frameworks such as REDD+ and the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), as well as a new financial instrument designed to reward net carbon removals and close the restoration gap, the Reverse Deforestation Mechanism (RDM).
