CPI at COP30
The CPI team 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; 11:15 – 12:30
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.
Roundtable on Capacity Building for Country Platforms
Wednesday, 5 November; 8:30-10:00
Rosewood Hotel
This roundtable, hosted by the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC) and the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, will bring together government representatives, multilateral and private sector partners, and technical experts to explore how best to support the design and implementation of country platforms. It will also highlight lessons from existing models such as the Brazil Investment Platform (BIP) and discuss collaborative approaches to capacity building.
Barbara Buchner and Jonathan First will participate.
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.
How women are powering Climate-Resilient Finance
Thursday, 6 November; 11:40-12:25
Nature & Climate House
Women leaders are at the forefront of understanding how the finance community needs to respond to a tricky transition, building climate resilience into economies. By channeling public and private capital into climate-resilient solutions, championing investments that are profitable and attractive whilst being sustainable, innovative, and inclusive.
Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director at CPI, will speak on this panel, hosted by Bellwethers.
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
CPI will co-host the side event “From Capital Markets to Adaptation on the Road to Belém+10” from 13:40 – 15:40
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 the CPI hosted panel, 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.
Climate Implementation Summit Panel: Building Resilience for Cities, Infrastructure and Water
Friday, 8 November
16:35 – 17:40
Moderator
• Guido Schmidt-Traub, Systemiq
Speakers
• Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
• Jorge Gastelumendi, Senior Director, Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center
• Nicholas Mazzei, Chief Sustainability Officer, DP World
• Rodrigo Carmo, Head of Global Corporate Banking, Brazil
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.
Innovative Financing to Scale Up Forest Restoration and Achieve the Paris Agreement Targets
Monday, 10 November; 17:30-18:20
Pará Pavilion
Juliano Assunção will speak at this event co-organized by Climate Policy Initiative, Imazon, and Amazônia 2030, that will present the Reverse Deforestation Mechanism (RDM), an innovative financial mechanism to restore tropical forests globally. The initiative is based on a detailed CPI study of tropical forests in 91 countries, assessing forest cover, deforestation trends, and restoration opportunities.
Climate Action House Leaders Lunch
Wednesday, 12 November; 13:05-13:25
The Climate Action House will host a series of conversations bringing together leaders from business, policy and finance to help match urgency with unity and ambition with action and support the COP30 Presidency’s call for a mutirão to accelerate implementation.
Barbara Buchner will speak at the Dialogue: Blended Finance 2.0 – De-Risking Climate Investment at Scale session.
Rethinking Cattle: A Strategy for Methane Abatement in Brazil
Wednesday, 12 November; 12:30-12:55
AgriZone
Brazil has committed to a 30% methane emissions reduction by 2030 and the cattle production is the largest source of emissions in the country. Juliano Assunção will speak at this panel that will present and discuss policy recommendations and investment opportunities based on a dual strategy – pasture-based intensification and strategic land diversification – to reduce CH4 emissions while improving resilience and livelihoods.
18th Nairobi work programme focal point forum
Wednesday, 12 November; 15:00-18:00
Meeting Room 15
The 18th Focal Point Forum will convene diverse knowledge holders to explore pathways through which knowledge, foresight, and strategic partnerships can drive progress towards the resilient future. It will also reflect on the evolving nature of knowledge in an era of uncertainty and transformation, how diverse knowledge systems can inform more inclusive, just, and future-ready adaptation pathways.
Barbara Buchner will speak at this event, convened by UNFCCC.
Mobilizing Capital for Climate Resilience in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
Wednesday, 12 November; 16:00 – 16:50
Danish Pavilion
The last ten years have taught us many lessons regarding what it takes to finance and build climate resilience, and we know that the next ten years will be critical to creating climate-resilient communities and economies. Co-hosted by Climate Policy Initiative, the Investment Mobilisation Collaboration Alliance (IMCA), and the World Climate Foundation, this event will focus on having a practical discussion of how to finance adaptation in emerging markets and developing economies: examining what has worked, and where we should target our efforts moving forward.
Socio-environmental Dialogue for Peace: Adaptation and Just Transition
Thursday, 13 November; 10:30-11:30
UN Pavilion
Juliano Assunção will speak at this panel organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM). CELAM is promoting a series of panels to organize hope through the initiative “Position, Organization and Proposal for the Economic-Financial Culture and Ecological Education of the Latin American and Caribbean Catholic Church in the Face of the Climate Crisis.”
This initiative seeks to articulate a prophetic response to the global environmental emergency, inspired by the principles of the Church’s current magisterium, by fostering dialogue among key decision-making actors—scientists, entrepreneurs, workers, community leaders, religious men and
women, and representatives of international organizations and regional
development banks.
From Ambition to Action: Unlocking Climate-SDG Synergies
Thursday, 13 November; 13:15-14:45
Side Event Room 2
Building on evidence from the 2025 Global Report on Climate and SDG Synergies and outcomes from the Sixth Global Climate and SDG Synergies Conference, the side event “From Ambition to Action: Unlocking Climate-SDG Synergies” will discuss how integrated approaches can translate ambition, particularly in the context of implementing NDC 3.0, into measurable results. By bringing together policymakers, finance and planning ministries, and other stakeholders, the session will showcase practical examples, policy innovations, and enabling mechanisms that support effective NDC implementation while promoting equity, resilience, and sustainability. Through this, the event will highlight how leveraging the interconnections between climate and development represents one of the most effective pathways toward a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable future for all.
Barbara Buchner will speak at this event, organized by UNDESA.
Scaling Forest Finance: Leveraging Trade Relationships and Policy Enablers for Tropical Forests
Thursday, 13 November; 13:15-14:45
Side Event Room 4
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.
Unlocking Climate Finance: Scaling Green Guarantees Through Multilateral action
Friday, 14 November; 11:00-12:00
German Climate Pavilion
Responding to calls to accelerate the mobilization of private capital for the green transition, the Green Guarantee Group (GGG) and the emerging Global Guarantee Platform (GGP) are working in concert to scale up the use of guarantees as a catalytic instrument – particularly in EMDEs where they remain underused. Co-hosted by Nigeria, Germany with partners including CPI, IDFC, MIGA, NDCP and FiCS, the event will spotlight how guarantees can deliver transformational investment alliances – advancing momentum into COP30 and beyond.
Barbara Buchner will moderate this event, which will also feature the new GGG Guarantee Directory as a matchmaking tool, alongside innovations emerging from the FiCS Lab that connect experimentation on guarantees with systemic scaling.
Scaling Credit Enhancement for Private Capital Mobilization
Friday, 14 November; 12:30-13:30
Blue Zone: Axis 2 Thematic Room
Credit-enhanced sustainability linked sovereign financing offers EMDEs affordable, long-term financing and mobilizes private capital. Barbara Buchner will speak at this multi-stakeholder event that will explore advancing such transactions as a distinct asset class for nature, climate, and sustainable development. As part of the COP 30 Action Agenda, a Plan to Accelerate Solution on “Scaling Credit Enhancement for Private Capital Mobilization” will be discussed.
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.
Venice as a Dual Model for Climate Adaptation – Infrastructure Meets Nature-Based Learning
Saturday, 15 November; 11:30-13:00
Blue Zone
This side event, organized by the Venice Sustainability Foundation, will explore Venice as a model for climate adaptation that combines advanced engineering with nature-based resilience. The MOSE system integrates high-tech infrastructure with Nature-Based Solutions such as morphological restoration and ecological corridors to enhance long-term adaptive capacity. Alongside this, the “City Campus” initiative turns Venice into a living laboratory where universities and communities co-design bottom-up adaptation strategies. Together, these approaches show how coastal cities can link infrastructure, NBS, and climate education. Barbara Buchner will speak at the event, which will share replicable frameworks for sustainable, scalable coastal adaptation.
Catalysts for Climate Transition
Monday, 17 November; 15:00
A ton of CO2 emitted or removed has the same atmospheric effect regardless of location. With finite resources, an efficient path to Global Net Zero requires channeling finance to the lowest present cost per ton of avoided or captured emissions. Juliano Assunção will speak at this session that presents three practical catalysts to operationalize that principle across firms, sectors, and jurisdictions: (i) standards and institutions for credible carbon markets (including forest carbon), (ii) a climate coalition design that aligns carbon pricing and trade while protecting competitiveness and broadening participation, and (iii) an integrated forest–climate architecture that rewards standing forests, halts deforestation, and scales restoration.
Financing systemic climate effects
Tuesday, 18 November; 9:00-10:30
IDFC Pavilion
CPI’s Sean Stout will join, virtually, a panel organized by AFD to discuss how to mobilize and reorient financial flows toward low-emission, climate-resilient development pathways. Drawing on CPI’s analytical expertise, Sean will present on assessing the quality of climate finance, highlighting how stronger data, metrics, and evaluation frameworks can help ensure that finance delivers real, lasting impact and supports transformational change aligned with the Paris Agreement.
Unlocking Innovation and Finance for Climate-Resilient and Biodiversity-Friendly Agriculture
Tuesday, 18 November; 10:00-11:30
OCDE COP30 Virtual Pavilion
Innovation and technology can play a crucial role in making the agricultural sector more climate-resilient and biodiversity-friendly. Cutting-edge technologies – such as precision agriculture and remote sensing for ecosystem monitoring, together with financial innovations such as biodiversity credits and payments for ecosystem services – can help improve agricultural productivity and resilience while protecting ecosystems and ensuring the equitable sharing of benefits from natural resources.
Juliano Assunção will speak at this session that will bring together policymakers, industry leaders and financial institutions to discuss opportunities and barriers to improving policy and financial mechanisms that support climate-resilient and biodiversity-friendly agricultural practices. Panellists will discuss the most effective policy instruments for accelerating development and scaling up innovations in agriculture and will present practical examples of successful approaches from developed and developing countries.
Climate finance landscape: challenges and opportunities for mobilizing climate resources
Wednesday, 19 November; 10:00
Brazil Pavilion
This event organized by Climate Policy Initiative will bring together key voices from across the climate finance ecosystem to discuss the current state of climate finance worldwide. Drawing on recent data and evidence, participants will analyze the main sources and flows of resources, the barriers to their expansion, and the opportunities to increase the volume, predictability, and effectiveness of investments. Joana Chiavari will speak at this panel.
Forest Financing: Unlocking Mechanisms for Sustainable Development
Wednesday, 19 November; 11:45-12:45
Regional Climate Foundations Pavillion
Juliano Assunção will speak at this panel organized by Climate Policy Initiative that will discuss how forest financing can better align development, nature, and people across diverse national contexts.
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).
Paris Report 3 – Global Action Without Global Governance
Thursday, 20 November; 11:00-12:30
Science Pavillion
Juliano Assunção will speak at this session that will bring together leading academics and policymakers to present complementary pillars for preserving climate and nature within planetary boundaries; acknowledging that global agreement may be difficult, while coalitions of the “selfish” (to borrow your language) remain achievable.
