7th GLF Investment Case Symposium
How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate? From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.
About this session
The private sector is often presented as a great opportunity for nature conservation as their financial resources often far exceed those of governments and philanthropy.
In this session, we will discuss how investment blueprints for conservation can help cover the current biodiversity funding gap, highlighting mechanisms to unlock and diversify other capital flows for biodiversity and environmental assets, and consequently ensuring a sustainable flow of ecosystem services for the future.
The discussion will also introduce three concrete examples from Brazil: a forest restoration business (Belterra), a sociobiodiversity sustainable chain (Tobasa) and a community cooperative for timber forest management (Coomflona). We aim to demonstrate how investors can address these crises by allocating investments to businesses that generate financial returns while also producing significant positive socio-environmental impacts.
