Amazon Podcasts & Presentations
Conversations and talks on the people, finance, science, and policy shaping the future of the Amazon — featuring entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, Indigenous leaders, and conservationists. Watch right here, or listen on Spotify.
TEDx Presentations
Fixing the Amazon Forest Market Failure
Daniel Nepstad of the Earth Innovation Institute
Daniel Nepstad lays out five strategies for conserving the Amazon by changing economic incentives and working with deforesters rather than against them — spanning technology, offset payments, fire prevention, the bioeconomy, and depolarizing the debate.
Your Money and the Amazon Forest
Leonardo Letelier of SITAWI Finance for Good
Leonardo Letelier of SITAWI Finance for Good on how personal spending, donating, and investing can support the Amazon — from patient capital and blended-finance instruments to crowd-lending platforms that channel money to forest-friendly bioeconomy entrepreneurs.
Investing in Sustainable Amazon Forest Entrepreneurship
Luis Fernando Laranja of Kaete Investments
Luis Fernando Laranja, founder of Brazil's first B Corp and of Kaete Investments — the first Brazilian impact private-equity firm focused on the Amazon — on building anchor companies for sustainable supply chains, and why reforestation is now the region's greatest investment need.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Science and the Amazon Forest Bio-Economy
Maritta Koch-Weser of the Amazon Third Way Initiative
Maritta Koch-Weser and Carlos Nobre of the Amazon Third Way Initiative call for an ‘Amazon Institute of Technology’ and a Green Deal — systematic discovery of the forest’s species, applied bioeconomy research, and large-scale restoration of land degraded by clear-cutting and mining.
The Economy of Deforestation Resistance: Scaling Up Community Led Enterprises in the Amazon
Marina Campos of Conexsus / Sustainable Connections Institute
Marina Campos of Conexsus on why community enterprises — cooperatives, Indigenous and traditional producers — are central to the forest economy, and how loan guarantees and lender training can unlock public and private finance to help them scale.
Amazon Forest Rule of Law: Landgrabbing, Deforestation and Amnesties in Brazil
Brenda Brito of Imazon
Brenda Brito of Imazon on how land grabbing — not just agriculture and ranching — drives Amazon deforestation, and why recognizing Indigenous lands, tightening penalties, and making land-tenure records transparent are essential to restoring the rule of law.
Green Bonds, Sustainability and New Amazon Forest Financial Products
Justine Leigh-Bell of the Climate Bonds Initiative
Justine Leigh-Bell of the Climate Bonds Initiative on the explosive growth of the green-bond market and how packaging sustainable agriculture and agroforestry into green bonds could unlock billions to help Brazil produce more with less and ease deforestation pressure.
Venezuela’s Illegal Mining, Human Suffering & Environmental Disaster in the Amazon Forest
Cristina Vollmer Burelli of SOS Orinoco
Cristina Vollmer Burelli of SOS Orinoco on what may be the worst environmental crisis in the Western Hemisphere — illegal mining tearing through the Venezuelan Amazon and the pristine Orinoco basin — and the anonymous advocacy effort racing to document and halt it.
Humans and Nature: Are We Part of the Ecosystem? Roles for Entertainment and Technology
Cacau Araujo of the Alana Institute
Cacau Araujo of the Alana Institute asks whether we still see ourselves as part of nature, and explores how technology, media, science, and ancestral knowledge can work in concert for conservation and well-being.
My Rainforest Journey: Revolutionizing Conservation with 21st Century Innovations
Peter Houlihan of XPRIZE Rainforest
Conservation scientist and National Geographic Explorer Peter Houlihan, Technical Lead for XPRIZE Rainforest, on using expeditions and visual storytelling across more than 20 countries to deepen understanding of the world's threatened rainforests.
Podcast Episodes
♪ Listen on SpotifyA Corporation Scaling the Amazon Forest Bio-Economy and Teaching Others the Same
Impact Investing Approaches in the Amazon Rainforest and Crowd Lending
Amazon Forest Economy Market Failures and Opportunities
Daniel Nepstad is an Amazon conservation pioneer who helped guide philanthropy to the region and in 2010 founded the Earth Innovation Institute to advance climate-friendly rural development through sustainable farming, forestry, and fisheries.
Alternative Governance and Economic Models for the Amazon Region
The Amazon Opportunity for Pharmacological and Biomimetic Entrepreneurship
Designing an Agroforestry Financial Product for the Amazon
Philanthropy for a Low Carbon Economy of the Amazon: Climate and Society Institute
Investing in New Market Opportunities in the Amazon: Perspectives of a Local Amazonian Retailer
The US Government and the Future of the Amazon Forest
Conflict Resolution: Towards Responsible Mining in the Amazon
Building a Sub-National Climate Fund with an Amazon Focus
NGO and Intergovernmental Action through the Leticia Pact and Platform
Payment-for-Conservation Innovations in the Amazon: The CONSERV Program
Partnership Platform for the Amazon: An Entrepreneurship Incubator and Accelerator
The Future of Amazon Ecotourism
An Industry Federation that Promotes Sustainable Amazon Business and Innovation
Film, Uncontacted Peoples and Tribes on the Edge
Serial Entrepreneur and Amazonia B: Building the Next Amazon Entrepreneurship Accelerator
Conservation Finance for the Amazon
Live from COP26
Roundtable on Tokenizing for Nature Protection
Remote Jobs and Hiring Amazonians as a Conservation Strategy
A Brazilian Coalition of Companies and Environmentalists Working on Sustainable Land Management and Deforestation
The UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), Investor Risk and Deforestation
The Highest Antioxidant Nut on the Market Can Restore the Amazon
Renewable Energy Production in the Amazon
The Avina Foundation and Local Level Climate Financing
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