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While foreign direct investment in the region has reached record highs, a significant financing gap remains for local, high-impact initiatives. This session explores the dual challenge of mobilising massive global capital while ensuring it trickles down to the smaller, decentralised projects essential for true regional resilience.

Tech-financing LATAM’s green transition

In the wake of COP30, LatAm is moving from climate pledges to the reality of the grid. Building this future requires navigating rigid regulations and a historical lack of data transparency. Sebastián Ruales explores how the region is breaking away from legacy utility models to build a tech-first ecosystem.

High-voltage hurdles in LatAm

Soil drives the biological engine. As EU regulations tighten, companies in Brazil use fungi and bacteria to turn farms into carbon sinks, taking deep tech out of the lab and into the field. In this panel, we discuss how microbial biotech provides the climate infrastructure to meet international standards, and how regenerative agriculture performs as an industrial asset.

Soil as climate infrastructure: Scaling Brazil’s bio-industrial revolution

For decades, saving the Amazon meant waiting on slow government budgets and federal enforcement. But Brazil has been awarded 40-year concessions to private companies. In this session, Peter breaks down this massive shift from public conservation to a concession model. Answering the question, can private markets and tech-speed execution protect the biome faster than the government?

The Amazon’s 40-year lease

What if we could predict floods, infrastructure stress, or biodiversity shifts before they happen? Join Another Earth's Maya Pindeus as she explores how scenario simulation is reshaping decision-making to move away from reactive response to proactive future - shaping.

Seeing the future: AI for climate and energy resilience

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Tech-financing LATAM’s green transition

High-voltage hurdles in LatAm

Soil as climate infrastructure: Scaling Brazil’s bio...

The Amazon’s 40-year lease

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