Scaling forest finance: leveraging trade relationships and policy enablers for tropical forests

The three international research groups involved – Climate Policy Initiative, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Global Canopy, SEI and Trase – will give short, but impactful, set piece contributions to help shape options and discussion. After the presentations we will hear reactions, ideas and provocations from the speakers.

Chaired and moderated by:

• Toby Gardner, Co-Director of Trase and Senior Research Fellow, SEI

Speakers include:

• Juliano Assunção, Executive Director Climate Policy Initiative (CPI-Brasil)
• Andrea Hauser, Member of the Management Committee, KfW
• João Marcos Silva Martins, COP30 National Consultant, the International Trade Centre (ITC)
• Maria J. Sanz Sanchez, Scientific Director, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
• André Vasconcelos, Global Engagement Lead, Trase
• Vedis Vik, Senior Advisor, NICFI
• Emanuel Lins, Biodiversity Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil