Amazonia Rising: 2nd Global Summit on Investing in the Amazon November 28 – December 9, 2022

SUMMIT SESSIONS

Monday, November 28, 2022

10:00am ET

In September, 2020, the Amazon Investor Coalition was launched from the stage of the UN 75 Global Governance Forum. Now, two years and hundreds of connections later, investors, philanthropists, corporate buyers, indigenous leaders and allies are collaborating. We are working to help improve governance, the rule of law, forest protection systems, bioeconomies, and more. Join us to learn how you can help to ensure that the Amazon forest is valued more alive and standing, than cut and burned.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Helena Gualinga, Youth Collective of Amazon Defenders
• Mariana Paulino Lima, Amazon Investor Coalition
• Nicole Schwab, 1t.org / World Economic Forum
• Yves Lesenfants, Inter-American Development Bank
• Marcio Sztutman, Partnerships for Forests
• Tony Lent, Capital for Climate
• James Mulligan, Amazon.com
• Jonah Wittkamper, Amazon Investor Coalition

12:30pm ET

(Formerly “Decolonizing Economics and the Amazon“) How can we mobilize global investment while decolonizing capitalism? How can investors and corporate operators help to generate genuine value in balance with communities and nature? What practical guidance, tools and resources exist for big impatient finance to learn a new way of doing business? Join this session for some wisdom we can all use.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Nestor Gualinga, Sumisawa and Sarayaku People
• Mario Yaucen, Sumisawa
• Puwe Puyanawa
• Mapu Huni Kuin, Huni Kuin People
• John Fullerton, Capital Institute
• Renata Strengerowski, Be the Earth Foundation
• Laura Ortiz Montemayor, SVX
• Seth Tabatznik, 42 Acres / Berti Investments
• Marc Thibault, NATIVIEN

2:00pm ET

The voluntary carbon market recently reached $2 billion, doubling in 1 year. A few savvy business models are succeeding in the Amazon region. Who are these entrepreneurs? Who are the buyers? What are the impacts on biodiversity and what is the biodiversity market?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Mariana Sarmiento, Terrasos
• Luiz Cruz Villares, Amazon Sustainability Foundation
• Peter Fernandez, Mombak
• Cinthia Caetano, Future Carbon
• Tacito Matos, KFURI Advogados
• Michael Green, Carbon Capital Advisors

3:30pm ET

The global compliance carbon market, regulated by governments, reached an estimated $760 billion in 2022, rising 164% in one year. Like Colombia before it, many anticipate that Brazil’s carbon market will come online soon. How will these markets impact the Amazon? How can we ensure that forest carbon credits have high integrity? What is the status of the California Tropical Forest Standard? How could new standards for nature accounting promoted by the White House and other governments have an effect? What about the participation of indigenous people?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Alasdair Were, International Emissions Trading Association
• Marcelo Ramos, Brazilian Congress 
• Andrea Johnson, Climate and Land Use Alliance
• Tracey Osborne, Center for Climate Justice
• Jason Gray, Governor’s Climate and Forests Task Force
• Brian Weinberg, Foundation for Regeneration
• Tuntiak Katan, Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC)

FIINSA Welcome & Keynote (plenary)

8:00am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Mariano Cenamo, Idesam / AMAZ
• Juliana Teles, Impact Hub
• Tashka Yawanawa, Yawanawa People (Blessing)
• Guilherme Leal, Natura (Keynote)

Future Visions for the Amazon (plenary)

8:30am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Mariano Cenamo, Idesam / AMAZ (Moderator)
• Guilherme Leal, Natura
• Denis Minev, BEMOL
• Txai Surui, Surui People

Reality Shock: Where we are today (plenary)

9:30am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Natalie Unterstell, Inst. Talanoa (Moderator)
• Samela Satere-Mawe, Sateré-Mawé People
• Caetano Scanavinno, Projeto Saúde e Alegria
• Juma Xipaya, Xipaya People

Possible Pathways: Building a New Economy (plenary)

10:30am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Virgilio Viana, Amazon Sustainability Foundation (Moderator)
• Patricia Daros, Fundo Vale
• Rita Mesquita, INPA
• Gustavo Pinheiro, Climate and Society Institute

Venture Capital as an Impact Business Finance Mechanism: Challenges and Opportunities (plenary)

2:00pm ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Ricardo Politi, Amazon Investor Coalition (Moderator)
• Elaine Garcia, FIP FIEAM
• Danilo Zeliniski, KPTL Investimentos
• Max Petrucci, Mahta Superfoods

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

In Search of the Amazonian Impact Unicorn: Entrepreneurial Challenges to Growth (plenary)

8:30am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

Mariano Cenamo, Idesam / AMAZ
Joanna Martins, Manioca
Geferson Oliveira, NavegAM
Amanda Santana, Tucum

CARBON MARKETS: THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE DECADE FOR FOREST CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION? (PLENARY)​

9:30am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Victoria Bastos, Idesam (Moderator)
• Almir Suruí, Suruí People 
• Bruno Aranha, BNDES
• Bruno Brazil, BR Carbon

Forest Restoration: The Potential to Restore Degraded Areas while Producing Food, Local Income, and Prosperity (plenary)

10:30am ET

Livestream from FIINSA in Manaus, Brazil

Speakers:

• Marcio Sztutman, Palladium (Moderator)
• Sarah Sampaio, Café Apuí
• Rodrigo Junqueira, Instituto Socioambiental
• Thiago Campos, Floresta S/A

HOW CAN WE ACCELERATE BIODIVERSITY INVESTING?​

12:30pm ET

Biodiversity is skyrocketing up the global investment agenda. There is growing recognition among financial and tech leaders that biodiversity–planetary life–underpins all economic sectors. The living Amazon biome supports nearly a quarter of the planet’s terrestrial species, making it perhaps the single highest-leverage “opportunity zone” for investing in a future that supports all life on Earth. Despite this growing awareness of the economic importance of biodiversity, many sectors are unfamiliar with how to invest in biodiversity. Break-out discussions among investors, biodiversity credit innovators, project developers, and naturetech entrepreneurs will consider a range of questions, such as: What is the current state of biodiversity credits? How is biodiversity immediately investable today? What are the proven valuation and monetization routes for Amazon biodiversity? What are the pathways for financing biodiversity protection and uplift? What is the biodiversity tech available today to underpin the nature-positive businesses of tomorrow? 


Participant list not disclosed.

2:00pm ET

As the largest single buyer of some Amazonian commodities, China is a big stakeholder in the Amazon. What is the impact? Even though a new Chinese law prohibits handling of illegally deforested wood, how can demand for deforestation-implicated commodities be influenced through organizing consumers and decision-makers in Asia? What is the relationship between the Amazon and Chinese food security? What opportunities could come out of an Amazonian-Chinese entrepreneurial exchange focused on sustainability and forest protection?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Margaret Myers, The Dialogue
• Rose Niu, Paulson Institute
• Daniela Teston, WWF Brazil
• Xin Yu, WWF China
• Mauricio Santoro Rocha, State University of Rio de Janeiro

Thursday, December 1, 2022

11:00am ET

How are leaders around the world working to advance forest conservation? Join this panel to hear stories ranging from personal to governmental, philanthropic to corporate, and more. How can one person make a difference for the Amazon? How could a coalition of nations?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Virgilio Viana, Amazon Sustainability Foundation
• Vedis Vik, Norway International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
• Gillian Caldwell, USAID
• Walter Vergara, World Resources Institute / Initiative 20×20 (Emeritus)
• David Kaimowitz, Tenure Facility
• Jojo Mehta, Stop Ecocide International

12:30pm ET

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have inspired the creation of dozens of startups interested in using their ability to unite diverse interests, create incorruptible data stores, facilitate transactions, and bring new liquidity and economic value to the mission of protecting nature. Unfortunately, the flurry of activity and complexity of issues have made it difficult for investors and donors to understand how to realize the technology’s impact potential. Join us as we dive into a web3 session dedicated to governance, impact finance, digital MRV and ecosystem services.

Partial list of invited participants:

• John Ellison, Refidao
• Paula Palermo, Impacta
• Gilad Goren, Bitgreen
• Jeremy Epstein, Open Forest Protocol
• Simge Sandal, Gainforest
• Iara Vicente, Nossa Terra Firme
• Jori Armbruster, Ethic Hub
• Luiz Hadad, Cambiatus
• Gregory Landua, Regen Network
• Luis Adaime, Moss

12:30pm ET

What is the status of the Amazonian cocoa market? What is its potential as a transition crop to recover degraded soils? Join us to learn about overcoming select challenges of Amazonian cocoa, including: flavor profile, disease, indigenous varietals vs more popular ones, and more. What is the opportunity to be premium or commodity only? Can Amazon branded cocoa differentiate itself? Join us to discuss these questions and learn which products use cocoa.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Vitor Stella, CocoaAction Brasil / World Cocoa Foundation
• Felipe Faria, Partnerships for Forests
• Kate Cavallin, Cocoa Latitudes/UK
• Tucker Garrison, Imlak’esh Organics

2:00pm ET

Amazon ecosystem stewardship can also be profitable. Corporate leaders offer case studies and success stories for investors and commercial buyers of forest-friendly consumer products: What did your company do to “Buy Amazonian”? Why did you do it? What result did it have on your business?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Livia Froes, Lush
• Robin Van Loon, Comida Verde
• Philippa Lockwood, Clif Bar & Company
• Andrew Vrbas, Pacha Soap
• Andrew Thorton, Silvan Ingredient Ecosystem
• Matt Cohen , SIMPLi
• Fernanda Stefani, 100% Amazonia

3:30pm ET

Industrial scale production of crops like cattle, soy, corn, and sugar has often laid waste to the environments where it is grown. What are the risks of bioeconomy expansion? How do we manage growth without harming the ecosystem and displacing native people? How can agricultural systems sustain ecosystem services, favor biodiversity, mitigate inequality, and avoid pesticides? Learn from successful examples with coffee and other species in The Andes and Brazil.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Alfredo Homma, Embrapa-CPATU
• Aaron Ebner, Alianza Andina
• David McGrath, Earth Innovation Institute / UFOPA
• James Baumgartner, The Ocean Ranch

3:30pm ET

Oil, iron ore, gold… The Amazon is home to many mineral resources and global markets are hungry for them. How can we slow resource extraction and reduce environmental damage? What legal systems require benefit sharing? How can existing mining operations share the wealth, reduce inequality, and use new technologies to operate pollution free?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Sarah DuPont, Amazon Aid Foundation
• Juliana Dib Rezende, Utu Fund
• Elizabeth Freele, Sympact
• Todd Paglia, Stand.Earth
• Natalia Uribe, Alliance for Responsible Mining
• Susan Keane, Natural Resources Defense Council

Friday, December 2, 2022

11:00am ET

Sacred plant medicines, such as Ayahuasca, are shining a spotlight on the Amazon as well as forming the bedrock of the psychedelic therapeutic revolution. The increased interest in these medicines has brought an inevitable influx of capital. How do we use these resources intelligently and respectfully, to benefit the stewards of these plant medicines, preserve their culture and wisdom, and restore their ecosystems which nurture 80% of the world’s biodiversity?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Miriam Volat, Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund
• Giles Hayward, Woven Science
• David Langer, Lionheart Ventures
• Pablo Friedlander, El Puente

11:30am ET

How are key agricultural commodity companies and investors working to reduce deforestation and defend human rights in their supply chains in the Amazon Region? What more can they do? How can the outside world pressure and collaborate with them?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Raquel da Costa, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Pedro Amaral, Mars
• Tomás Kovensky, The Nature Conservancy
• Jose Pugas, JGP Asset Management

12:30pm ET

The Brazil nut is one of the primary non-timber forest products in the Amazon, but the supply chain suffers and is underdeveloped. Join us to learn how innovators are addressing the challenges and finding successes in the standing forest economy.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Marco Giagio, CERTI
• Mateus Marcoto, Bioverse Labs
• Ekkehard Gutjahr, Amazon Oil
• Johann Schneider, Coopavam

12:30pm ET

Contract farming, commercial agreements between companies and producer organizations, could play an important role in integrating community businesses, indigenous and traditional peoples, and small holder farmers into the evolving bioeconomic development strategy for the Amazon. This panel will discuss how these relationships foster trust, retain forested areas, strengthen supply chains, and improve community livelihoods, while providing companies with access to Amazon products as well as compelling stories to tell global audiences about forest-friendly commerce.

Partial list of invited participants:

• João Meirelles, Instituto Peabiru
• Ronaldo Freitas, Union of Ethical BioTrade (UEBT)
• Aline Sousa, Juruá Pescados
• Fernando Allegretti, Amazon Investor Coalition
• Beto Bina, Veja
• Wain Cullen, Los Aliados 

3:30pm ET

What is regenerative agriculture? How is it scaling in the Amazon Region? We will discuss the main challenges and opportunities to scale.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Pedro Nogueira, Amazon Investor Coalition
• Eduardo Bastos, MyCarbon
• Bruno Kato, Horta da Terra
• Charton Locks, Produzindo Certo
• Mariana Vasconcelos, Agrosmart
• Daniele Cesano, Adapta

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Local Dinners in Cities Around the World for Supporters of Amazonia

To join (or host) a dinner in your city, write to dinners@amazoninvestor.org

Monday, December 5, 2022

11:00am ET

The Amazon impact business ecosystem has matured in recent years, increasingly vibrant and full of opportunity. What is needed next? How can the diverse stakeholders involved unite their efforts and prepare for ever greater integration with international markets? How can investment, philanthropy and blended finance work together? Join us to meet some of the primary organizations in the sector and learn how to help.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Mariana Lima, Amazon Investor Coalition
• Rafael Kamke, CERTI
• Augusto Correa, Partnership Platform for the Amazon
• Andre Wongtschowski, World-Transforming Technologies
• Carina Pimenta, Conexsus
• Marcelo Cwerner, NESsT

12:30pm ET

Philanthropy is critical to investment – derisking private venture, increasing equitable capital, and boosting the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Strategic funding can develop Amazon market infrastructure, provide conservation finance, promote accountable governance that makes investment and commerce viable, and build carbon and ecosystem markets with integrity. Learn how leading Amazon funders are catalyzing economics for ecosystem regeneration and mobilizing new philanthropy to increase the economic competitiveness of forests with community wellbeing at the center.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Carolina Suarez Visbal, Latimpacto
• Marcia Soares, Fundo Vale
• Rosa Maria Lemos de Sá, Funbio
• Andrea Azevedo, Fundo JBS
• Juliana Strobel, Fundacion Avina
• Carolina Munis, Oak Foundation
• Renata Piazzon, Instituto Arapyau

2:00pm ET

What are some of the most promising forest-friendly products that are coming out of the Amazon? Who are the producers? What do they have to offer? How are they evaluating social and environmental impact? How can the rest of the world help? Come meet these Amazonian brands that are changing the world. Be the first to meet these outstanding companies that were chosen from 161 applicants! You can be first-to-market in your country.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Bruno Kato, 3Agro / Horta de Terra
• Stefano Arnhold, Chocolate de Mendes
• Johann Schneider, Coopavam
• Mariano Cenamo, Amaz
• Fernanda Stefani, 100% Amazonia
• Sarah Sampaio, Café Apui
• Paulo Reis, Manioca

3:30pm ET

What are the main agroforestry investment pitfalls? Join us to discuss, and learn from a diverse set of experiences in the region. What are the primary regulatory obstacles, especially around environmental licensing and land tenure? What are the recommended investment vehicles and capital structures? How can we ensure product quality, market access and consumer demand?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Juliana Santiago, Emergent
• Marcelo Pereti, Belterra Agroflorestas
• Mariano Cenamo, Café Apui / Amazônia Agrofloresta
• Phil Kauders, Courageous Land
• Bruno Kato, 3Agro
• Alexis Bastos, Rioterra

Tuesday, December 6, 2022

11:00am ET

Those new to the Amazon might not understand what wild harvesting is, and may not be familiar with non-timber forest products (NTFP). Others want assurances that what they sell to their customers really is benefiting Amazon ecosystems and communities. Wild harvesting and non-timber forest product management are important strategies for IPLC’s to build strong, sustainable local economies and with the right assurance systems in place, buyers can develop trust around the social and environmental sustainability of their sourcing practices.

Participants:

• Luiz Antonio Brasi, Origens Brasil / Imaflora
• Samantha Morrissey, Rainforest Alliance
• Johann Schneider, Coopavam
• André Skaf, Amazonia Care
• Andrea Abram, Louisa Abram Chocolate
• Carina Pimenta, Conexsus

11:00am ET

A session featuring 5 innovative “Amazon-serious” funds to showcase the top-tier fund managers with dedicated vehicles for the Amazonian bioeconomy.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Tony Lent, Capital for Climate
• Tammy Newmark, EcoEnterprises Fund
• Carina Pimenta , Conexsus
• Daniel Serra, MOV Investimentos
• Tatiana Alves, Selva Fund
• Martha de Sá, Vert
• Nick Oakes, Impact Earth

12:30pm ET

Amazon bioeconomic development is trending. What is the latest evidence and research available to guide our understanding about this moment of increased financial awareness and appetite in the rainforest bioeconomy? Hear from the latest researchers collecting data on the bioeconomy pipeline, commercially viable products, global appetites, and the financial innovations that are helping this “greenfield” opportunity get scale. Which nature-positive Amazonian industries are succeeding in attracting global investment appetite? What are the target funds that are being pointed to the Amazon?  What are the value chains and venture pathways with greatest positioning to outcompete the deforestation economy? How is the fourth sector working individually and collectively to measure the pulse of the Amazon bioeconomy?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Danielle Rappaport, Amazon Investor Coalition
• Sergio Leitão, Escolhas
• Carolina Genin, Concertação pela Amazonia / World Resources Institute
• Marysol Goes, Amazon Sustainability Foundation / Hub da Bioeconomia Amazônica

2:00pm ET

If big investments and big commercial operations need copious amounts of data to operate, then what can be done in the Amazon where data is scarce? Several entrepreneurs and private sector coalitions have answers. Fintech entrepreneurs are using satellites, IoT solutions and more to help make land use decisions, track produce, assess impact, and guide corporate ESG decisions. What are wild-harvest and agroforestry bonds? Which is the largest to date? What would it take to enroll the $120 trillion bond market in Amazon sustainability? What is the Climate Bonds Initiative?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Leonardo Gava, Climate Bonds Initiative
• Tiago Brasil Rocha, Build from Scratch
• Carlos Souza, Terras App
• Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt, Open Food Chain / The New Fork

3:30pm ET

Silvopasture engages small, mid- and large size cattle ranchers in profitable and sustainable/regenerative production systems. This discussion will inform investors, philanthropists, and corporate buyers about silvopasture as a strategy to increase food productivity on degraded land, and to avoid deforestation, while generating positive environmental and social externalities. This session will showcase pioneering startups and social businesses that are running silvopasture initiatives.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Fernando Russo, Meraki Impact
• Luiz Fernando Laranja, Caaporã / No Carbon Milk
• Thiago Nogueira, Cumbaru
• Pedro Nogueira, Amazon Investor Coalitoin
• Daniel Baeta, Luxor Agro / Pasto Vivo
• Johannes Zimpel, Inocas

3:30pm ET

Mysterious and enchanting. While the Amazon inspires reverence for nature, so too does Ayahuasca, a local indigenous brew. The 2020 book, the Immortality Key, argues that psychedelic experiences could be the common root of the world’s religions. Several recent scientific studies also confirm that psychedelics increase nature appreciation. In the case of Ayahuasca, 74% of users report feeling an ongoing connection to the spirit of the plant. These sentiments are visible in diverse faith-inspired movements that promote nature conservation such as the Catholic Laudato si encyclical. If nature reverence is supposed to be at the center of the Judeo-Christian worldview, then should it be at the center of our economic system as well? In late 2021, a supreme court case in Ecuador pitted the rights of nature against corporate rights. While both were protected in the country’s constitution, nature won out, thereby putting into question foreign debt that was securitized by mineral rights. Could it be securitized instead by local carbon rights and ecosystem service payments? How could a worldview based on nature celebration, help us re-imagine our global financial system to celebrate diversity and back our currencies with natural assets.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Gregory Landua, Regen Network
• Brian Muraresku, The Immortality Key
• Chris Varrone, Pickwick Capital Partners
• Valentina Roldan-Espinosa, Valentina Yaman
• Loic Le Meur, Paua
• Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai, Achuar Nation

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

11:00am ET

A session featuring 7 of the most promising and pioneering Amazon-focused companies developing new and innovative business models that help protect and restore ecosystems. A selection of investable companies from the Amazon Startup Hub, orchestrated in partnership with CERTI.

Participants:

• Fernanda Stefani, 100% Amazonia
• Edgar Montenegro, Amapuri
• Philip Kauders, Couragous Land
• João Tezza, Darvore
• Paola Salazar, Ecoflora
• Andrea Abram, Luisa Abram Chocolates

12:30pm ET

What blended finance structures are at play in the Amazon? How can we create new opportunities for conservation and large-scale regeneration? In this session we will explore experiences in Latin America and identify ways to innovate based on the international experiences that have come before us.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Carolina Pimenta, Conexsus
• João Paulo Pacifico, Grupo Gaia
• Carolina Suarez Visbal, Latimpacto
• Caio Sergio de Mello Sarhan, Natura
• Guilherme Karan , Fundação Grupo Boticário

12:30pm ET

A discussion of the challenges and opportunities for Amazon aquaculture and managed fisheries and how national and global demand for fish can help reduce pressure on Amazon forests. Opportunities for companies and investors to corner the market by addressing solutions to market development (volumes, logistics, transportation, safety, finance, money transfer, capacity, and more).

Partial list of invited participants:

• Toby McGrath, Earth Innovation Institute / UFOPA
• André Brugger, Netuno USA
• Francisco Hidalgo Farina, ACRIPAR {Associação de Criadores de Peixes do Estado de Rondônia)

2:00pm ET

There is a story of the Amazon to tell that is not about fires, destruction, and murder. It is a story of an Amazon rainforest that has the potential to be the world’s largest forest-positive and carbon-rich economy — a global hub for impact business development, conscious investment, and community leadership. In this session, representatives from the film and music industry share how we can use the power of media and storytelling to broadcast a new Amazon story of innovation, restoration, and impact.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Juliana Tinoco, Partnerships for Forests
• Mapu Huni Kuin, Huni Kuin People
• Flavia Doria, Alana Institute
• Oona Castilla Chaplin, Actress / Artists for Amazonia
• Jie-Ming Chung, Terra Media / Resilience Entertainment

3:30pm ET

Highspeed Internet is coming to the remote Amazon and could change everything. As more people find work online, why not at the deforestation frontier? As connectivity improves opportunity, what industries will succeed? Who can lead this economic transition? Can forest carbon financing subsidize the workforce development and re-skilling process?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Julia Bussab Fonseca, Climática
• Cassia Moraes, Climate-KIC
• Jochai Ben-Avie, Connect Humanity Fund
• Daniel Grynberg, Mais Unidos / Transforming Lives through Connectivity in the Amazon
• Tasso Azevedo, Forest People’s Connection Project

3:30pm ET

The entrepreneurship sector propagates the inequalities embedded in other sectors. This is especially true in the Amazon. In order for women and other minority groups to have more opportunities and space in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, it is important that some characteristics are considered throughout the supporting process. Come and discover some initiatives that have managed to put this into practice to transform the reality of women in the Amazon.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Carolina Alves de Jongh, Janela 8
• Cecilia Zanotti, ANDE
• Mayra Castro, Invest Amazonia
• Amanda Santana, Tucum

Thursday, December 8, 2022

11:00am ET

A session featuring 7 of the most promising and pioneering Amazon-focused companies developing new and innovative business models that help protect and restore ecosystems. A selection of investable companies from the Amazon Startup Hub, orchestrated in partnership with CERTI.

Participants:

• Cristiano Camargo, Agrosmart
• Alexandre Bezerra, Amachains
• Francisco D’Elia, Bioverse Labs
• Rosinei Oliveira, Directto
• Juliana Mattana, Maneje Bem
• Renata Gomes, Pix Force
• Osmar Bambini, Um Grau e Meio

12:30pm ET

The future of forest economies will depend on communities that protect them. How are indigenous people participating in the capitalist system? In what ways do their operations resemble traditional entrepreneurs? What can they teach the world about their ways of value and exchange?

Partial list of invited participants:

• Laura Yawanawá, Yawanawá People
• Tashka Yawanawá, Yawanawá People
• Jimmy Piaguaje, Siekopai Nation
• Nice Machado, Movimento Interestadual das Quebradeiras de Coco Babaçu
• Angela Mendes, Memorial Chico Mendes
• Kumiko Hayashi, The Roots Awaken (film)
• Charles Borges Rossi, Instituto Fronteiras
• Benki Piyãko, Ashaninka People

2:00pm ET

Carbon credits from large-scale “jurisdictional REDD+” (j-REDD+) programs, that operate at the scale of entire states and nations, are about to break into the voluntary carbon market. In the Brazilian Amazon alone, revenues from these credits could deliver $2bn per year or more to the states’ low-emission development strategies. Previous experiences with j-REDD+ “pay-for-performance” contracts in Acre and Mato Grosso demonstrate the power of this approach to deliver benefits to a range of stakeholders. Join us for a high-profile exchange with Amazonian subnational leaders, carbon financiers, researchers and indigenous leaders about the future of j-REDD+ in the Amazon region.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Marli Santos, Tocantins State Government
• Monica de Los Rios, Earth Innovation Institute Brazil
• Fernando Sampaio, Instituto PCI
• Celso Fiori, Mercuria
• Franklin Paniagua, Architecture for REDD+ Transactions
• Allan Traicoff, Emergent
• Daniel Nepstad, Earth Innovation Institute

3:30pm ET

What are the primary stumbling blocks for operating a business in the Amazon? Who are the entrepreneurs and what training is needed? What are the logistical challenges and how is technology innovation helping? What are the legal compliance challenges and how are people overcoming them? What are the key gaps in market data and how do merchants improvise? Join us to discuss these questions as well as market readiness, law enforcement, and more.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Denis Miniev, BEMOL
• Daniel Thá, Kralingen Consultoria
• Ana Cristina Barros, Posaidon Capital
• Fábio Gobeth, Transportes Bertolini
• Marcello Brito, CBKK
• Fernanda Stefani, 100% Amazonia

Friday, December 9, 2022

11:00am ET

In the Amazon, illegal deforestation and land conversion is perpetuated by unstable land titles, extractive financial drivers and a weak rule of law. Why is land tenure important for conservation and what are the solution sets available to legally and socially stabilize land title.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Brenda Brito, Imazon
• Bastiaan Reydon, Kadaster.nl
• Paulo Moutinho, IPAM

12:30pm ET

December 7 – 19, 2022 in Montreal, Canada, governments from around the world will come together to agree on a new set of goals to guide global actions through 2040 to protect and restore nature. Action targets include conservation of at least 30 percent of land and seas globally; restoration of at least 20 percent of degraded freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems; and nature-based contributions to global climate change mitigation of at least 10 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. Hear from leaders at the conference about progress.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Martin Beaudoin Nadeau, Viridis Terra
• Rosa Galvez, Senate of Canada
• Claudio Schneider, Conservation International Peru
• Hari Balasubramanian, EcoAdvisors
• Melinda Macleod, BHP Foundation

2:00pm ET

The sustained increase in fire incidence and intensity across the Amazon basin is alarming–due to the twin pressures of drought from climate change and deforestation. Fortunately, there are proven solutions that already exist for fire monitoring, response, and prevention. Where are the “bright spots” in the region that can be scaled with holistic and patient investment? An interdisciplinary roundtable discussion on the most strategic philanthropic and for-profit interventions for preventing further fire devastation in Amazon forests. How can we ensure the permanence of carbon stocks and biological diversity in a drier, more flammable world? A dialogue that seeks to disrupt silos by uniting diverse players with critical pieces of the puzzle for scaling systemic fire solutions: philanthropists, investors, entrepreneurs, voluntary and indigenous brigades, government, and scientists.

Partial list of invited participants:

• Caroline Nóbrega, Aliança da Terra
• Jayleen Vera, U.S. Forest Service – Brazil
• Charton Locks, Produzindo Certo
• Ane Alencar, Amazon Environmental Research Institute
• Paulo Brando, University of California, Irvine
• Douglas Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Osmar Bambini, Um Grau e Meio
• Marion Adeney, Conservation X Labs
• Maria Amalia Souza, Fundo Casa
• Marcelo Cwerner , NESsT
• Marcello Kamaiura, Kamayurá Brigade 

3:30pm ET

Recent financial innovations including blended finance have given rise to new possibilities for sustaining long-term conservation of forested areas for Amazonian wildlife and communities.
There are trillions of dollars that have pledged to go to work for nature. Over $2 trillion has been issued through green bonds since the first pioneering instrument came online 15 years ago. Recent financial innovation has unlocked unprecedented opportunities to mobilize nature conservation finance at the scale needed to prevent an Amazon dieback. Yet, there is massive incongruence with what large investors are seeking and what indigenous and local communities need or could offer as investable deals. Join us to discuss the leading edge of conservation finance for Amazonian landscapes, including natural asset companies, wild harvest bonds, and project finance for permanence. We will explore pathways to use conservation philanthropy as an integral component of new financial products that could be securitized by long-term purchase contracts of forest products, and other approaches. How can the global community mobilize effective conservation finance at scale while ensuring indigenous rights and agency?

Partial list of invited participants:

• David Meyers, Conservation Finance Alliance
• Manoel Serrao Borges de Sampaio, ARPA / FUNBIO
• Pilar Barrera Rey, The Nature Conservancy / Enduring Earth
• Mahlette Betre, Intrinsic Exchange Group
• Matthias Pitkowitz, EQX Biome
• Ruth Andrade, Lush
• Caio Sergio de Mello Sarhan, Natura
• James Chu, John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc.