Collaborative and Innovative Arrangements to Ground Climate Finance in the Territories
This panel will discuss collaborative strategies to decentralize and expand financing aimed at addressing the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. Bringing together socio-environmental, community, and corporate funds, it seeks to highlight innovative arrangements that strengthen territorial leadership and enhance the impact of local actions. Examples of alliances between funds and networks from the Global South will be presented, pointing to new models of cooperation focused on people, climate, and nature.
Alianza Socioambiental Fondos Del Sur/Fundo Tindzila
Grace Iara Souza
Alliance for the Amazon and Beyond / Pooled Fund
Natália Cerri
Instituto Itaúsa
Time
14:00
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15:30
From the Territory to the Territory:
The Power of Funding Local Voices
This conversation brings together Fundo Baobá and Bioma Comunicação Ancestral to discuss funding models that place the territory at the center. It will explore how social investment and ancestral communication, when guided by local listening and autonomy, can generate deeper and more sustainable transformations. A dialogue about resource decentralization, community-built narratives, and the benefits of models that trust local leadership to achieve real and lasting impact.
Financing Communities Through Solutions and Experiences
from the Savannas and the Pantanal with Global Impact
This panel aims to discuss the urgent need to expand and redirect financial flows toward biomes historically made invisible in global climate finance strategies. Drawing on the experiences of Fundación Semilla, Fundo Ecos, Fondo Emerger, and Fundo Tindzila, as well as the work of Global South organizations, the session will present powerful narratives about nature-based solutions (NBS) and other community mechanisms that demonstrate how resources can effectively reach territories — promoting climate justice, strengthening socio-biodiversity, and fostering local ownership. The existing solutions will be presented in contrast to the still limited scale of resource allocation.