GLF Climate 2025 Hybrid Conference

HYBRID CONFERENCE AT UNFCCC COP30

GLF CLIMATE 2025

A NEW VISION FOR EARTH

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DATE

17 November 2025

LOCATION

COP30 (Belém, Brazil) and livestreamed worldwide

SOCIAL

#GLFClimate

#ThinkLandscape

Up to 89% of the world’s population wants their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis.

And yet, global carbon emissions are soaring to record levels, and climate-vulnerable countries aren’t getting the help they need to adapt.

GLF Climate 2025: A New Vision for Earth is where we move beyond the rhetoric.

Held live at COP30 and streaming globally, this isn’t just a conference for policymakers – it’s a vital platform to unite the majority for action, far beyond the negotiating rooms in Belém.

We’re opening the doors for you to weigh in on the climate action the world needs. GLF Climate blends science with Indigenous and local knowledge and brings youth and women’s perspectives to the forefront.

This is your climate conference. Together, let’s forge a new vision for Earth and build a more just, equitable global movement for climate action.

Tickets are now available to join online. In-person tickets will be available shortly – stay tuned!

Explore the event themes

Beyond pledges

Find out what collective action looks like – and how it can shape policy and create real systemic change.

Reimagining governance

Have your say as we strive to make climate governance more participatory and driven by grassroots leadership.

Food, forests and the climate

Help build climate resilience by protecting forests and strengthening food sovereignty from the bottom up.

Regenerative economies

Discover the business case for inclusive, locally-led climate action and conservation.

Monitoring and evaluating impact

Explore new technologies, innovations and AI solutions to monitor progress, predict outcomes and guide policy.

Meet some of our past speakers

Sônia Guajajara

Indigenous politician and activist, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (ABIP)
Brazil
Lyla June

Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages
Sandrine Dixson Decleve

Co-President of the Club of Rome
Club of Rome
Jane Goodall

Founder
The Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

CEO and Chairperson, Global Environment Facility
Global Environment Facility
Gisele Bündchen

Author, Philanthropist, Supermodel
UN Environment Programme Global Goodwill Ambassador
Kate Kallot

Founder & CEO
Amini AI
Vandana Shiva

Food Sovereignty Advocate
Environmental Activist
Ayisha Siddiqa

Co-Founder
Polluters Out
Otto Scharmer

Senior Lecturer at MIT and Founding Chair of the Presencing Institute

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Any questions? Get in touch.

General

Isabel Mesquita

i.mesquitacifor-icraf[dot]org

Partnerships

Marina Brunale

m.brunalecifor-icraf[dot]org

MEDIA

Kelly Quintero

K.Quinterocifor-icraf[dot]org

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The 8th GLF Investment Case

HYBRID CONFERENCE AT UNFCCC COP30

The 8th GLF Investment Case Symposium

FINANCING THE FRONTLINES

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DATE

18 November 2025

LOCATION

COP30 (Belém, Brazil) and livestreamed worldwide

SOCIAL

#LuxFinance4Nature

#ThinkLandscape

Did you know that smallholder farmers and fishers produce most of the world's food – but get less than 1% of climate finance?

That’s why we’re bringing together investors and changemakers to bridge this gap.

Most of humanity wants real, meaningful climate action. Now, it’s time to fund that change. At the 8th Investment Case, find out how we can redirect finance away from harmful practices and towards regenerative, community-led solutions.

We’re gathering at COP30 – and streaming it globally – to ignite new investment strategies that benefit communities, nature and investors.

Register now to discover successful grassroots projects and join 5,000 changemakers in reshaping the future of finance.

Tickets are now available to join online. In-person tickets will be available shortly – stay tuned!

Explore the event themes

Redirecting finance from harmful to regenerative practices

Discover how we can eliminate harmful subsidies and fund climate-positive activities instead.

Investing in Indigenous and community-led solutions

Fund and support the work of Indigenous Peoples and local communities while respecting their self-determination and sovereignty.

Nature markets and innovative financial instruments

Get immersed in blended finance and other cutting-edge financial solutions for the planet.

Meet some of our past speakers

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Economist and former Minister of Finance
Nigeria
Serge Wilmes

Minister of the Environment, Climate and Biodiversity & Minister for the Civil Service
Luxembourg
Marina Silva

Minister of the Environment and Climate Change
Government of Brazil
Garo Batmanian

Director General
Brazilian Forest Service
Kleber Karipuna

Executive Coordinator
The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB)
Subhra Bhattacharjee

Director General
FSC International
Ayesha Khan

Regional Managing Director
Acumen, Pakistan
Aldo Soto

Managing Director and Co-Founder
Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV)
Elizabeth Mrema

Executive Secretary, UN Convention on Biological Diversity
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
Jennifer Pryce

President and CEO
Calvert Impact Capital

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What is sustainable finance?

AI plenary: How is AI revolutionizing nature finance?

What the death of USAID means for the climate

Resilient Landscapes Luxembourg: Accelerating high-impact investment opportunities in nature-based solutions

Building a path to finance the biodiversity framework

4 things you need to know about sustainable finance for nature

Blended finance, explained: Global, Green Fund of Funds Strategy

Stewardship economy: the investment case for a transition to transformation

How to sell carbon credits on the market

Greening Finance and Financing Green

Investing with Nature: Exploring Investment Opportunities Across Ecosystems

Unlocking funding success: Insights for project developers & restoration initiatives

Past editions of GLF Investment Case Symposium

Any questions? Get in touch.

General

Juana Ramírez

j.ramirezcifor-icraf[dot]org

Partnerships

Marina Brunale

m.brunalecifor-icraf[dot]org

MEDIA

Kelly Quintero

K.Quinterocifor-icraf[dot]org

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The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, as it happened

In Cali, Colombia, and online, we gathered over 2,000 participants from 108 countries, along with almost 100 speakers and 91 global and local partner organizations, at the 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, Rewarding Nature: A Roadmap to Finance the Biodiversity Plan.

Held alongside the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), the global event explored how to fund efforts to stem and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

Missed the event? You’re in luck – all hybrid and online sessions are now available to stream on demand.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Last year, we called our respective governments to carry out structural reforms, especially an ecological fiscal reform. You can raise a lot of money, but it is about political will, not only technical. For example, Nigeria is over 180 million people. If you take only 5 cent per bottle of beer and water consumed daily – let’s say 80 million bottles, how much money will we raise at the end of the day, after a year?

Théophile Zognou

CEO, Sangha Tri-National Trust Fund; President, Consortium of African Funds for the Environment (CAFÉ)

To incentivize the private sector, we must address the perceived risk. Normally, private actors perceive biodiversity-related projects as high risk. We also need to address the uncertainty of the financial returns related to the early stages of biodiversity projects. Here is where blended finance plays a pivotal role by making biodiversity-related projects much more attractive and viable.

Camila Silva Arango

Technical Assistance Manager, Finance in Motion.

Finance is a crucial catalyst element. We need to make sure that money is mobilized for conservation, biodiversity and to support the cultures that safeguard biodiversity.

Ane Alencar

Director of Science at IPAM

Financing Indigenous Peoples is a global political commitment today, but we need to transform it into reality. Many Indigenous Peoples, organizations, movements and local communities are conducting a debate process to create Indigenous-owned funding mechanisms.

Kleber Karipuna

Executive Coordinatorm The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB)

For AI to be innovative, we need to first clearly identify the problems we want to solve. Cross-sector partnership is essential to drive such innovation. For example, the private sector offers the capital and knowledge, academia adds the deep research and technical expertise, and local innovators bring regional context.

Gabriela Gutierrez

Founder and CEO, Tabs AI

Whether it’s carbon credits or conservation projects, our lands are being dispossessed, or we lack full and effective participation in decision making. All projects that happen on Indigenous territories should be based on co-creation. You should work as equals with Indigenous Peoples – not impose an agenda from the outside.

Emil Sirén Gualinga

Member of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku, Ecuador

We have to find back the spirit of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and work together on all levels. The Luxembourg government has many ongoing initiatives between the private and the public sector, where the co-benefits are essential — the economic, the social and the ecological. We need to strengthen the rights of local communities, Indigenous Peoples, women, and children globally.

Serge Wilmes

Minister of the Environment, Climate and Biodiversity & Minister for the Civil Service, Luxembourg

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Recap: the Biodiversity COP16

What’s your vision for Earth?

From 21–31 October 2024, the GLF team was in Cali, Colombia to cover this year’s UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) and watch world leaders hash out the next steps for the Global Biodiversity Framework.

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Latsis Symposium 2018 – Scaling-up Forest Restoration

The Latsis Symposium 2018 brings leading scientists and practitioners in forestry to ETH Zürich to address the ecological, economic, and societal challenges of scaling-up forest restoration. The symposium will tackle two major environmental threats, climate change and forest degradation, through restoration and aims to set out methods of coordinating an effective global response.

The 2-day symposium will take inspiration from the Bonn Challenge and seek to explore challenges and opportunities in meeting its targets. The discussion will be moulded by presentations from academia, non-governmental organisations, and the business sector.

Registration is free of charge and ends on 30 May 2018.

For more details, please visit the symposium website or read about the highlights of this event in this blog post.

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Suicide or Survival

The State of the earth – diagnosis and prognosis

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GLF CLIMATE 2025

17 November 2025

COP30 (Belém, Brazil) and livestreamed worldwide

#GLFClimate

#ThinkLandscape

Up to 89% of the world’s population wants their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis.

Explore the event themes

Beyond pledges

Reimagining governance

Food, forests and the climate

Regenerative economies

Monitoring and evaluating impact

Meet some of our past speakers

Sônia Guajajara

Lyla June

Sandrine Dixson Decleve

Jane Goodall

Carlos Manuel Rodriguez

Gisele Bündchen

Kate Kallot

Vandana Shiva

Ayisha Siddiqa

Otto Scharmer

Check out our best climate content

Any questions? Get in touch.

The 8th GLF Investment Case Symposium

18 November 2025

COP30 (Belém, Brazil) and livestreamed worldwide

#LuxFinance4Nature

#ThinkLandscape

Did you know that smallholder farmers and fishers produce most of the world's food – but get less than 1% of climate finance?

Explore the event themes

Redirecting finance from harmful to regenerative practices

Investing in Indigenous and community-led solutions

Nature markets and innovative financial instruments

Meet some of our past speakers

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Serge Wilmes

Marina Silva

Garo Batmanian

Kleber Karipuna

Subhra Bhattacharjee

Ayesha Khan

Aldo Soto

Elizabeth Mrema

Jennifer Pryce

Check out our best GLF Investment Case Symposium content

Past editions of GLF Investment Case Symposium

Any questions? Get in touch.

Explore the Outcome Statement: Building a path to finance the biodiversity framework

How to raise $200 billion for biodiversity in 2024

Indigenous Peoples and local communities at the forefront as Amazonian and global organizations join forces

Innovators pave a bold path forward for financing biodiversity and climate

The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, as it happened

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Finance is a crucial catalyst element. We need to make sure that money is mobilized for conservation, biodiversity and to support the cultures that safeguard biodiversity.

Financing Indigenous Peoples is a global political commitment today, but we need to transform it into reality. Many Indigenous Peoples, organizations, movements and local communities are conducting a debate process to create Indigenous-owned funding mechanisms.

VIDEOS

Harnessing investments in multifunctional landscapes to deliver on the Rio Conventions

Boosting biodiversity outcomes in green commodity value chains

Resilient Landscapes Luxembourg: Accelerating high-impact investment opportunities in nature-based solutions

Sounds of the ocean and the forest: Combining environmental journalism and investigative tools

Covering elections through an intersectional climate lens: The case of Brazil

Fireside chat with scientists: Synergies of the Rio Conventions

A decalogue for impact: Journalism in the Amazon Region

News

Experts: global environmental goals are within reach, if national agendas don’t get in the way

Indigenous Peoples and local communities at the forefront as Amazonian and global organizations join forces

New project paves the way for biodiversity and equity in global agrifood systems

Innovators pave a bold path forward for financing biodiversity and climate

How to raise $200 billion for biodiversity in 2024

PHOTOS

Recap: the Biodiversity COP16

PAST GLF INVESTMENT CASE SYMPOSIA

GLF–Luxembourg Finance for Nature 2023

GLF Climate 2021

GLF Luxembourg 2019

GLF Washington, D.C. 2018

GLF London 2016