COMMERCIAL GRADE DATA, BONDS AND NEW AMAZON FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
December 6th, 2022 at 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?
Leonardo Gava
Climate Bonds Initiative
Leonardo is responsible for coordinating the CBI Agriculture Transition Program in Brazil.
Leonardo holds a bachelor in Agronomy (UEL with mobility at INP-Toulouse) and a M.Sc. in Plant Pathology (ESALQ-USP). He has been working with sustainable agriculture practices since his undergraduate studies, both in Brazil and Europe. His previous studies focused on the effects of climate change on the dynamics of plant pathogens, and how to manage those threats in a new, more efficient and sustainable way. His last position was at Agrosmart, a startup AgTech company committed to the creation of digital solutions for sustainable agriculture. He has considerable experience in Data Sciences applied in the development of digital products and management strategies in the AgTech sector. In this field he has been involved in the construction of many algorithms with applications in the agriculture market, such as predictive models of plant diseases and risk assessment tools.
Tiago Brasil Rocha
Build From Scratch
Enthusiastic about sustainable development finance, people and growth projects, currently: Managing Director – Build from Scratch. Co-Partner – SC Connection. Board Member – Gotchosen Inc. Oxford Business Alumni Brazil. Previously developed successful business for Banco Fibra, Suzano S.A, Kimberly Clark Corporation and Klabin S.A. Oxford University – Executive MBA. Fundaçāo Getúlio Vargas – Master in Business Administration – Strictu Sensu. University of Sāo Paulo – Master Business Economics. University Mackenzie – Bachelor in Business
Carlos Souza
Terras App
Carlos is a world-class scientist. At Imazon, he pioneered an independent forest monitoring and deforestation alert system for the Brazilian Amazon. Carlos has a Bachelors in Geology from Pará State Federal University, a Masters in Soil Science from Penn State, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Santa Barbara. Terras App Solutions, a for profit company, promotes zero-deforestation agriculture in the Amazon. Brazil has good forest laws and loans to farmers that are conditional on compliance. Terras offers an integrated set of digital tools to farmers, buyers and lenders to enable and reward sustainable agriculture. Their tools combine cloud computing, geospatial analyses and remote sensing to facilitate good land management, improve supply chain traceability, and makes things easier for borrowers and lenders.
Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt
Open Chain Foundation / The New Fork
Marieke started her career at the United Nations. For the next 10 years, she lived in all continents and worked in more than 50 countries, from Costa Rica to Vietnam. She returned to Wageningen University, leading a research team to analyze the impact of agrifood investments, working with the likes of Rabobank, Syngenta and Ahold Delhaize. In 2014, she became director of AgriPlace, a software company simplifying compliance processes. Three years later blockchain matured and concluded it addressed key challenges in agrifood: data ownership and data integrity. Convinced that blockchain accelerates a more sustainable food system, she founded The New Fork in 2017. The New Fork helps agrifood companies work with new technologies like blockchain (web3). In 2019, she started to build Open Food Chain which became a foundation in 2021. Open Food Chain helps entire industries to adopt Open Food Chain, a traceability solution that keeps costs low, is farm-friendly and extremely interoperable.
