The most consequential sustainability event for the private sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
A regional event that happens in the heart of the Amazonia
Manaus, Brazil. June 11-13
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Share best practices and be up to date with the most relevant trends in sustainability
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Identify tangible business opportunities to achieve transformative, long-term outperformance
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Build strategic partnerships and meet investors seeking developmental projects in Latin America and the Caribbean
Main Topics
IMPACT INVESTING
AMAZONIA
INCLUSION
BIOECONOMY
CLIMATE CHANGE
Agenda
Climate opportunity and risk management for Financial Institutions
In this deep-dive, will explore the following questions: ● What is the impact of climate change on financial intermediaries and the financial sector at large? Why is it both a risk and an opportunity? ● What is the role of double materiality assessment for climate risks and opportunities? ● How can financial institutions get started in assessing climate risks and unlocking opportunities? ● What are examples of climate risk management practices? ● What does climate risk mean for financial institution’s portfolios? An snapshot of quantification, scenario analysis and stress testing. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k560H2yWR7yC2GBeDr6Euw#/registration
Good Practice Note: Wastewater Management for the Agribusiness Sector
The agribusiness industry plays a crucial role in the global economy by supplying food, beverages, and essential products to meet the needs of the world's population. With the growing demand for agricultural products, ensuring food security and addressing environmental impact have become paramount. One significant environmental challenge facing the agribusiness sector is the improper management of wastewater from its operations. In collaboration with Futuris, IDB Invest has developed a Good Practice Note (GPN) to provide practical guidance on wastewater management in the agribusiness sector. This session will present an overview of the GPN, highlighting its main objectives and guidelines. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N_78f6z6Sga_XXN7E2bgWw#/registration
Managing gender-based violence and harassment grievances
Gender-based violence, discrimination and harassment are linked to local and structural contexts. According to the WHO, the prevalence of sexual violence is higher in the Americas than in the rest of the world. ECLAC states that almost half of the region's female workers have faced sexual harassment in the workplace. In this context, mechanisms to deal with complaints must be adequately prepared and qualified. In collaboration with Veredas, IDB Invest has developed a Guidance Note on how to manage gender-based violence and harassment grievances. The training offered will address essential topics for companies and institutions to respond to these challenges, such as: concepts, classification, and definitions of conduct, receiving complaints, reception, investigation, conclusive reports, among other topics. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcuGorjspHNBLrUhqdEDSRswoh3PPq-xR#/registration
Cumulative Impact Analysis
This virtual course will give auick overview of how to perform cumulative impact analyses from a project's prespective. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NB3PP4E2TA6EKMJ70GmWhA#/registration
Compliance Programs for SMEs
If "one size does not fit all" how can SMEs design and implement robust anti-corruption compliance programs compatible with their business risks and resources. Leverage tools to carry out a risk-assessment and apply practical guidance to implement an anti-bribery and corruption compliance program. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vb18EmbiQxadkDYhEXgXKg#/registration
Human Rights for Business
Training session focused on the main concepts and frameworks of the Business and Human Rights (BHR) agenda. They will discuss the practical application of BHR lessons across various industries in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean. We aim to equip corporations with cutting-edge knowledge on this field as well as instruct them on how to utilize effective tools to embed the agenda in their reality, considering their challenges and opportunities. We expect to strengthen the BHR agenda throughout LatAm and the Caribbean region and set the conditions for successful future results. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-jc7_pz6SAWxzFkXTIUScw#/registration
Good Practice Note: Labor Management in the Sugarcane Supply Chain
During this session, IDB Invest, in partnership with Peterson Global, will present the Good Practice Note (GPN) developed to guide users in addressing risks related to labor relations throughout the production chain of the sugarcane sector. This includes sugarcane producers, third-party service providers, and sugar and ethanol mills, encompassing all stages of production. The GPN focuses primarily on social issues related to human rights, including child labor, forced labor, labor relations, discrimination, as well as the health and safety of workers. The document covers risk management methodologies, references to best practices, and tools for performance control and monitoring. We aim for this document to serve as a guide to support companies and society in establishing dignified, responsible, and constructive labor relations in the sugarcane production chain across Latin America and the Caribbean. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TaYiyumpQL2g8r-DaBTfaQ#/registration
Impact measurement and management for financial institutions
Stemming from IDB Invest’s ongoing impact monitoring work with financial institutions, this session aims to help FIs strengthen their impact measurement and management capacities through optimizing data collection and analysis processes, including compiling sex-disaggregated data for their MSME portfolios. Doing so can help FIs better understand their client base, inform future strategies, attract investors, and better serve targeted segments such as women-led MSMEs. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8YxoOU9IQO-mVlT-IF7zMA#/registration
Integrity Risks: What is the role of the Board of Directors?
The crucial risk oversight role of Boards places them in a unique position to prevent and navigate complex integrity challenges effectively. How can Boards steer organizations through tumultuous times into an opportunity for renewal and improvement. Register via Zoom: https://iadb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4TTwzSrhQ3KOZTDj_cvPOg#/registration
Originate to share: Connecting developmental needs of LAC with global investment opportunities
How can we structure assets and connect the developmental needs of Latam with the funds available in the financial markets. A look into the dynamic intersection of finance and sustainability, strategies to develop investment solutions, such as mobilization and blended finance, and how they can effectively allocate capital to projects that prioritize sustainability.
Sustainable Food Systems: Building long-term resilience and ensuring food security in LAC
The session explores strategies and solutions for promoting resilient food systems in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region. We will delve into the challenges faced by LAC in achieving long-term food security, including the role of the private sector, and discuss practical approaches to building resilience in the face of climate change. The session will uncover opportunities to enhance LAC’s food system towards a more secure and resilient food future.
Clean Energy Transition: How to effectively manage the challenges and opportunities of decarbonizing the energy matrix in LAC countries.
How can LAC play a key role in fostering clean energy initiatives, while addressing environmental, social and economic concerns for a more sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future? From thoery to practice: The Case of Ecuador
Including stakeholders in decision-making and benefit sharing for scaling impact
Amplifying the participation of underrepresented communities, fostering collaboration and ensuring fair representation. How can organizations meaningfully engage with local communities, civil society, advocacy groups, and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle? How can transparency and proactive engagement with CSOs benefit businesses and minimize risk? fair representation. How can organizations meaningfully engage with local communities, civil society, advocacy groups, and other stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle? How can transparency and proactive engagement with CSOs benefit businesses and minimize risk?
How technology helps the adoption of sustainability solutions in businesses
Artificial Intelligence and innovative technology applications can play a central role in the achievement of ambitious sustainability goals. In this session, experts will share how businesses can leverage technology to find effective solutions to pressing sustainability challenges. Learn how artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of things are positively impacting LAC business profitability across different industries
Unlocking the Green Economy & Nature-Based Solutions: Innovative Financing Solutions for Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Regeneration.
The Panel will focus on innovative financing solutions for forestry, biodiversity conservation and forest regeneration. The session will explore the intersection of finance and nature-based solutions, highlighting the importance of innovative and sustainable financing models for biodiversity preservation and forest regeneration. Discover how investors and corporates are increasingly recognizing the value of investing in nature and learn about successful initiatives that have leveraged innovative financing mechanisms to support climate efforts and how investment opportunities can be unlocked in the future in LAC.
The Board’s Role in a Dynamic World
This session explores the strategies and practices that position Boards of Directors as catalysts for positive change and sustainable success in today's rapidly evolving business world. In an ever more complex and changing world, Boards of Directors play a pivotal role in driving forward emerging and evolving agendas within their companies, ensuring that they are well positioned to both take advantage of new opportunities while also addressing related risks. The speakers will share their insights and experiences on how boards can navigate the complexities of today's world, from fostering a culture of innovation in the company, addressing digital and new technologies and their impacts, responding to new shareholder and stakeholder activism, and integrating sustainability in the company's strategy.
Corporate Governance: The Blueprint for Long-Term Business Resilience
This session dives into how a systematic approach to risk can transform uncertainties into manageable components of your strategic plan. Transparency will be included as an essential component for risk governance and business resilience. Risk governance encompasses the processes, structures, and mechanisms within an organization to identify, assess, monitor, manage, and mitigate risks effectively, involving elements such as risk culture, appetite, and tolerance, alongside policies, monitoring systems, and Board oversight. Transparency plays a key role in risk governance, by allowing to produce early diagnostics, increasing stakeholder's trust, and building sustainable business strategies. It is crucial for safeguarding stakeholder interests, enhancing decision-making, protecting reputation, ensuring business continuity, and complying with regulation. By providing a systematic approach to addressing uncertainties and threats, risk governance enables organizations to manage complexities, minimize adverse events, and sustain long-term success in an ever-evolving business landscape.
Climate Governance: Synchronizing Strategies at Corporate Level
This session reviews the transformative role of corporate governance in the face of global environmental challenges. Climate Governance involves the incorporation of climate considerations throughout a company's decision-making and oversight structures, internal control environment, transparency and disclosure practices, and interactions with shareholders and other stakeholders. From the Board of Directors, to upper management, and individual control functions, all areas within businesses have the joint challenge of proportionally addressing climate risk and opportunities within their functions. In this session, experts from the Climate Governance initiative will share effective climate governance practices and climate actions to cope with these challenges and to find and seize opportunities to drive business and ensure a just transition.
Why Agtech is essential for agriculture and food production to evolve towards a sustainable food system in LAC?
The pivotal role of Agtech in revolutionizing agriculture and food production towards a sustainable future. In a world grappling with climate change, population growth, and resource scarcity, the need for innovative solutions in agriculture has never been more urgent. Agtech, an amalgamation of agriculture and technology, offers a promising pathway to address these challenges head-on. During this engaging conversation, we will delve into the significance of Agtech in fostering sustainable and innovative food systems and how Agtech enables farmers to make data-driven decisions, optimize crop yields, and mitigate risks. The chat will unravel the transformative power of Agtech in shaping the future of agriculture and food production in LAC.
Enhancing business models through circularity
From strategy to action: integrating circularity into business models to achieve greater impact and business growth.
Sustainable Supply Chains and the challenge of traceability
What steps are companies taking in their food supply chains to ensure sustainability? What roles do consumers, DFIs, and regulators play in promoting sustainable supply chains? What are the successful cases, as well as the challenges faced in establishing effective supply chain governance and traceability as catalysts for positive change across multiple industries?
Blended finance: A tool to scale up funding for Latin America and the Caribbean
Blended finance as a tool to bridge the funding gaps needed to improve social and environmental standards in the region.
Performance-based blended mechanism to achieve climate goals in Investment Funds
The use of incentives to boost an investment fund’s portfolio sustainability levels. Structuring Innovative performance-based goals via blended finance with the use of Science-Based Targets (SBTs) and Building Resilience Index (BRI) to create alignment with fund managers and investors to promote climate mitigation and adaptation.
Climate finance: challenges and opportunities for deploying capital
This session is a deep-dive into the dynamic intersection of finance and sustainability. It will explore strategies to develop innovative investment vehicles such as sustainability-linked bonds, and how they can effectively allocate capital to projects that prioritize sustainability. The discussion will look into both the opportunities and pitfalls in deploying the trillions needed to contribute to social and economic outcomes that create a low carbon and climate-resilient economy for all.
Transition planning and adaptation for financial institutions
This session explores both the boundary conditions and financial institutions' strategies to transition to low carbon and resilient economies in LAC. The discussion will consider the tangible actions that Financial Institutions can take to meaningfully contribute to solving the climate crisis, while protecting themselves from its negative impacts through transition planning. Panelists will provide case studies and discuss the state of the art in designing transition plans and their application in LAC jurisdictions considering the evolving regulatory landscape.
Elevating upstream strategies for greater project impact
Strategic enhancements to optimize upstream and advisory services to generate more impactful investment opportunities.
Pathways to enable a just transition in Latin America and the Caribbean: Shifting towards greener economies leaving no one behind
Transitioning to climate-neutral economies will unveil considerable social and employment-related challenges. How to address the distributional consequences of a just transition in Latin America, including an increasing focus on current workforce upskilling and reskilling? How to ensure citizens’ involvement in just transition strategy planning? How can businesses in LAC adopt the principles of just transition -fairness, inclusivity, and equitability- in their corporate strategy to create a better future?
The nexus between gender equality and climate action
Climate change is disproportionately affecting women and girls. In the region, unequal access to education, employment, ownership, and decision-making opportunities is further widening the gender gap, exacerbating vulnerabilities. Women empowerment and improved access to resources can have far-reaching effects advancing wellbeing, economic prosperity and sustainability in the region. The panel will focus on how to prevent negative consequences of climate change on gender inequalities; and how to promote gender-smart solutions in the context of climate action.
The social digital divide: How to promote economic opportunities of under-represented and vulnerable groups
The panel will explore the social digital divide in the LAC region. What is the social digital divide? How does it affect women, people of afrodescent and vulnerable populations? How can private sector can contribute to closing gaps in connectivity, usage of technologies and digital skills?
Decarbonizing historically high-emitting sectors shifting to sustainable practices
Hard to abate industries have an enormous challenge ahead when it comes to reducing their carbon footprint. How can policymakers, businesses and investors work together to incentivize the transition? What barriers must be overcome?
Strategies and roadmaps to drive green hydrogen development and competitiveness in the region
Description of strategies and roadmaps drawn for driving the development and competitiveness of green hydrogen in LAC, current status and assessment of the Region's potential on green hydrogen production; how to attract further investment and mobilize funds? IDB Group as a key driver of the sector and facilitator of regional partnerships.
Pathways to design sustainable tourism
Explore consumer trends and innovation within the hospitality sector that generate highly developmental projects that aim aiming to magnify social and environmental impact.
Impact management as a conduit for scaling capital mobilization and impact
Mobilizing more private capital towards impact investments in Latin America and the Caribbean calls for having clear frameworks in place to measure, manage, and report on impact. Without the ability to identify high-impact investment opportunities and demonstrate positive social, environmental, and economic impact, the funds won’t follow. This panel brings together impact investing industry leaders to discuss why mainstreaming impact management across the business and financial sectors is essential for scaling impact in the region.
Structuring innovative ESG and sustainability-linked financial products and tools for allocating capital and managing risk
A look into the dynamic intersection of finance and sustainability, strategies to develop innovative investment vehicles such as sustainability-linked bonds, and how they can effectively allocate capital to projects that prioritize sustainability. And how can financial institutions enhance their resilience while contributing to social and environmental outcomes.
United by Purpose: Sustainable Investing in Today’s Markets
If we were able to give more information and data, how would our clients benefit? What about new regulation, and how is the helping information? European requirements and how can we talk about examples that stand out?
Sustainable Banking and data: how banks are leveraging data to catalyze Impact and promote inclusion
What is data solving for in today’s banking? Mitigating Risks, Rise of climate conscience stakeholders, evolving regulatory mandates, and competitive differentiators. The importance of data to promote access to financial services? Use cases, results, impacts. ESG Data – holy grail for Banks: measuring and monitoring sustainability performances, Risk Management, Product Development, Collaboration and partnership.
Building Climate Resilience within the financial services sector of the Caribbean
Despite the complexities and challenges, how Fis in the Caribbean are creating opportunities to advance on climate resiliency.
Sustaining biodiversity in the Amazonia. Biodiversity conservation and restoration
The critical role of biodiversity conservation in exploring innovative environmental services.
Innovative cross-sectoral solutions to build sustainable cities: economic and social inclusion, and climate-resilient infrastructure
The interconnected challenges of building resilient and inclusive cities.
Energy-efficient transportation
Exploring the transition from traditional fossil fuel-powered vehicles to the adoption of clean technologies powering public transportation, as well as the importance of upgrading infrastructure to support decarbonized public transportation in LAC.
The Role of Public and Private Sector Partnerships to Accelerate and Expand Access to Water and Sanitation
The role of collaborative efforts between the public and private sectors in driving investments that accelerate access to clean water and sanitation services. Innovative financing models, regulatory frameworks and technological solutions that can foster effective partnerships.
More than just a conference
Ideal occasion to network with the most influential knowledge experts and sustainable practices innovators
Tools, practices and experiences that are shaping the future of sustainable impact in the region
A business and growth driven event carefully crafted for the private sector, providing a platform for global and regional leaders to share solutions
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