{"id":10453,"date":"2025-10-09T11:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:59:17","slug":"sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agriculture and land use are Brazil\u2019s largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, but also hold the greatest potential to deliver solutions. As a strategic pillar of the national economy and a decisive front in the climate agenda, the sector has become a top priority for climate finance. This urgency set the stage for the event <\/span>\u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019<\/span><\/i>, organised on 27 August by BVRio and <\/span>Sustainable Investment Management<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThere is no longer a climate and environment debate without finance\u201d, highlighted Ana Toni, CEO of COP30, during the event, underscoring the weight of the discussions for Brazil\u2019s economic and climate agenda. With a packed audience of more than 110 people, the event gathered government representatives, multilateral banks, the private sector, academia, farmers and civil society across four dynamic panels with 28 speakers. Discussions explored practical ways to scale up low-carbon agriculture, accelerate environmental compliance and mobilise capital for conservation and restoration, placing Brazil at the forefront of global climate negotiations in the run-up to COP30 in Bel\u00e9m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the participants were the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), Ministry of Finance, Banco do Brasil, BNDES, the Amazon Fund, World Bank, Santander and Ita\u00fa Unibanco, alongside organisations such as IICA Brazil, Amigos da Terra \u2013 Amaz\u00f4nia Brasileira, WWF-Brasil, Proforest and Agroicone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the full event on BVRio\u2019s YouTube channel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Pedro Moura Costa<\/strong>\u00a0(BVRio<\/em>) moderated the panel ‘Financing the agricultural transition’.<\/em>\u00a0The session brought together\u00a0Mauricio de Moura Costa<\/strong>\u00a0(Sustainable Investment Management –\u00a0SIM<\/em>),\u00a0Leila Harfuch<\/strong>\u00a0(Agro\u00edcone<\/em>),\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Pugas<\/strong>\u00a0(Regia Capital<\/em>),\u00a0Martha de S\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0(Violet Vert<\/em>),\u00a0Maxime Garde<\/strong>\u00a0(WWF<\/em>), and\u00a0Raoni Raj\u00e3o<\/strong>\u00a0(Federal University of Minas Gerais –\u00a0UFMG<\/em>).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Roberta del Giudice<\/strong>\u00a0(BVRio<\/em>) moderated the panel ‘Sustainable production in practice’.<\/em>\u00a0The discussion featured\u00a0Renata Miranda<\/strong>\u00a0(Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture –\u00a0IICA<\/em>),\u00a0Pedro Burnier<\/strong>\u00a0(Amigos da Terra –\u00a0Brazilian Amazon<\/em>),\u00a0Cec\u00edlia Gon\u00e7alves<\/strong>\u00a0(Proforest Brazil<\/em>),\u00a0Pablo Majer<\/strong>\u00a0(WWF-Brazil<\/em>),\u00a0Charton Locks<\/strong>\u00a0(Produzindo Certo<\/em>), and\u00a0Gabriel Lui<\/strong>\u00a0(Brazilian Forest Service –\u00a0SFB<\/em>).<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Speakers emphasised that public and private mechanisms must work hand in hand. Recent advances such as Brazil\u2019s green taxonomy, the regulated carbon market, the EcoInvest programme and a strengthened <\/span>Fundo Clima<\/span><\/i> are moving in parallel with market instruments including green bonds, Environmental Reserve Quotas (CRAs), impact funds and blended finance structures. The challenge now is scaling with integrity, ensuring robust metrics, strong governance and verifiable results on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gabriel Lui, from the Brazilian Forest Service, announced that the government is preparing to issue the first Environmental Reserve Quotas (CRAs) later in October, highlighting the CRA as an effective compensation instrument to achieve land regularisation while encouraging conservation and environmental restoration. Since the enactment of the Forest Code, BVRio has developed all the necessary infrastructure to establish the <\/span>Forest Reserve Credits<\/span><\/a> market and support rural landowners in meeting their Legal Reserve obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pedro Moura Costa, BVRio co-founder, remarked, \u201cWe created BVRio to design financial mechanisms that could unlock the implementation of environmental law. Today, the world recognises that without finance there can be no climate transition.\u201d Ana Toni echoed, \u201cThere is no longer a climate and environment debate without finance. The challenge is to turn commitments into predictable financial flows and to channel more resources to underfunded areas, such as adaptation and nature-based solutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Aquino, Secretary for Green Economy at MMA, noted that land use, forests and agriculture are \u201cSimultaneously central to climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and water security, yet remain underfinanced.\u201d Stressing here the need to align instruments such as Brazil\u2019s <\/span>Plano Safra<\/span><\/i> with environmental outcomes and incentives for those maintaining native vegetation beyond the legal minimum.
\n\"\" Simone Bauch<\/strong>\u00a0(Ministry of Environment and Climate Change –\u00a0MMA) moderated the panel\u00a0\u201cEvidence and public instruments to scale up climate finance.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0The session brought together\u00a0Vilmar Thewes<\/strong>\u00a0(Banco do Brasil),\u00a0Cl\u00e1udia Tufani<\/strong>\u00a0(World Bank),\u00a0Leonardo Pereira<\/strong>\u00a0(BNDES BIP),\u00a0Fernanda Garavini<\/strong>\u00a0(Amazon Fund), and\u00a0Ana Carolina Szklo<\/strong>\u00a0(VCMI \/ Global Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets).\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"Pedro Moura Costa<\/strong>\u00a0(BVRio) moderated the panel\u00a0\u201cFinancial instruments for the transition.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0The discussion featured\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Aquino<\/strong>\u00a0(Ministry of Environment and Climate Change –\u00a0MMA),\u00a0Mauricio Moura Costa<\/strong>\u00a0(Sustainable Investment Management – SIM \/ Responsible Commodities Facility –\u00a0RCF),\u00a0Leonardo Fleck<\/strong>\u00a0(Santander),\u00a0Marcela Paranhos<\/strong>\u00a0(SAIL Investments),\u00a0Jo\u00e3o Adrien<\/strong>\u00a0(Ita\u00fa BBA), and\u00a0M\u00e1rio Almeida<\/strong>\u00a0(Ministry of Finance \/ EcoInvest).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Within this context, the role of the <\/span>Responsible Commodities Facility<\/span><\/a> (RCF), an initiative by SIM, was emphasised as a way to promote the production and trading of responsible soy in Brazil by creating a financially sustainable vehicle to provide incentives to farmers who conserve native vegetation and meet social and environmental criteria, helping with the growing international demand for zero-deforestation supply chains. Having recently completed its fourth investment round, Maur\u00edcio de Moura Costa, co-founder of BVRio and Director of SIM, shared their experience, \u201cBlended finance works in design, but implementation is complex; it must reconcile banks, impact investors, corporates and multilateral capital.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00e1rio Almeida, from the Ministry of Finance, presented the new EcoInvest credit line, highlighting its potential to drive and expand initiatives such as the RCF. \u201cWe see EcoInvest as a transformative initiative to promote sustainable agriculture in Brazil,\u201d said Pedro Moura Costa, co-founder of BVRio. The view was shared by representatives from Santander and Ita\u00fa banks, who also emphasised the innovative nature of the proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n

With COP30 approaching, participants underlined that Brazil has the opportunity to demonstrate, through solid financial instruments and strengthened environmental governance, that it is possible to reconcile production, conservation and development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Agriculture and land use are Brazil\u2019s largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, but also hold the greatest potential to deliver solutions. As a strategic pillar of the national economy and a decisive front in the climate agenda, the sector has become a top priority for climate finance. This urgency set the stage for the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[817,697,818,808,72],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-agriculture","tag-climate-finance-2","tag-cop30","tag-rcaw","tag-rcf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30 | BVRIO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The event \u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019 was organised on 27 August by BVRio and Sustainable Investment Management\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_BR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30 | BVRIO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The event \u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019 was organised on 27 August by BVRio and Sustainable Investment Management\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BVRIO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-09T11:10:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-05T21:59:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-1024x1024.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ludmila Girardi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ludmila Girardi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/\",\"name\":\"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30 | BVRIO\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-09T11:10:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-05T21:59:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#\/schema\/person\/4081b2faea384d10f18b258079053c5c\"},\"description\":\"The event \u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019 was organised on 27 August by BVRio and Sustainable Investment Management\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"pt-BR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/\",\"name\":\"BVRIO\",\"description\":\"BVRio (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro \u2013 Environmental Exchange of Rio de Janeiro)\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"pt-BR\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#\/schema\/person\/4081b2faea384d10f18b258079053c5c\",\"name\":\"Ludmila Girardi\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"pt-BR\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89eee3f7aaafb37d0f2a87e70b626bd15a96929d34e42f121f3f42a377aa6d58?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89eee3f7aaafb37d0f2a87e70b626bd15a96929d34e42f121f3f42a377aa6d58?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ludmila Girardi\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/bvrio.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/author\/ludmila_girardi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30 | BVRIO","description":"The event \u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019 was organised on 27 August by BVRio and Sustainable Investment Management\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/","og_locale":"pt_BR","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30 | BVRIO","og_description":"The event \u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019 was organised on 27 August by BVRio and Sustainable Investment Management\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/","og_site_name":"BVRIO","article_published_time":"2025-10-09T11:10:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-03-05T21:59:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-1024x1024.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Ludmila Girardi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ludmila Girardi","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/","name":"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30 | BVRIO","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-10-09T11:10:33+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-05T21:59:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#\/schema\/person\/4081b2faea384d10f18b258079053c5c"},"description":"The event \u2018Financing Agricultural and Climate Transition\u2019 was organised on 27 August by BVRio and Sustainable Investment Management\u00a0 (SIM) as part of Rio Climate Action Week (RCAW).","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"pt-BR","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/sustainable-finance-and-low-carbon-agriculture-pathways-to-cop30\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sustainable finance and low-carbon agriculture: pathways to COP30"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/","name":"BVRIO","description":"BVRio (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro \u2013 Environmental Exchange of Rio de Janeiro)","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"pt-BR"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#\/schema\/person\/4081b2faea384d10f18b258079053c5c","name":"Ludmila Girardi","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pt-BR","@id":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89eee3f7aaafb37d0f2a87e70b626bd15a96929d34e42f121f3f42a377aa6d58?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/89eee3f7aaafb37d0f2a87e70b626bd15a96929d34e42f121f3f42a377aa6d58?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ludmila Girardi"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/bvrio.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/author\/ludmila_girardi\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10520,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions\/10520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bvrio.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}