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CSO perspectives at UNPRI side Events

Today, the Forests & Finance Coalition & Friends, organized a full day of side events to the UNPRI, which is happening in São Paulo.

The event brought together CSO voices, indigenous leaders, investors, researchers and public prosecutors to discuss the role of finance in driving deforestation and rights violations, and how to stop these impacts.

The presentations were recorded and will be available soon.

Agenda

TimeEvent TitleSpeakers
09:00Deforestation pays: behind
global financiers’ profits
from forest destruction		Giulia Bondi, Senior
Campaigner, Global
Witness

Fernanda Sucupira, Social
Impact Coordinator,
Repórter Brasil
10:00The role of banks and
agribusiness in driving
deforestation in Brazil		Cristiane Mazzetti,
Campanha de Florestas,
Greenpeace Brasil

André Campos, Research
and Social Impact
Program, Repórter Brasil 

Rafael Rocha, Public
Prosecutor, Federal Public
Prosecutor’s Office
11:00Financialization of
Agriculture in Brazil		André Campos, Research
and Social Impact
Program, Repórter Brasil

Silvio Eduardo Alvarez
Candido, Professor de
Estudos Organizacionais,
Universidade Federal de
São Carlos – UFSCar
14:00Financing for Biodiverse
Futures: Aligning
Agribusiness and Financial
Systems with Biodiversity
and Indigenous Rights.
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here		Eryn Schornick, Senior
Consultant, Friends of the
Earth US (moderator) 

Sirito-Yana Aloema,
Indigenous leader from
the Galibi people of
Suriname, Member of the
Indigenous Advisory
Group to the Banks &
Biodiversity Initiative

Jeff Conant, Senior
International Forests
Program Manager,
Friends of the Earth US

Kamran Khan, Managing
Director, Head of
Sustainable Finance for
Asia Pacific, Middle East,
and Africa, Deutsche Bank
Group  
15:00The Tropical Forest Forever
Facility: opportunities and
challenges in the fight
against deforestation		Giulia Bondi, Senior
Campaigner, Global
Witness (Moderator)

André Guimarães, Director,
IPAM and Special Envoy
for civil society at COP30

Rayhan Dudayev, Political
Lead on the Global Forest
Solution Project,
Greenpeace’s South-East
Asia

Annie Sanders, Director of
Shareholder Advocacy,
Green Century
16:00Mining & Money –
Impacts of the Just energy
transition		Maurício Angelo, Diretor
Executivo do
Observatório da
Mineração

Karina Feliciano, Research
Analyst, IDEC

João Travisã, Movement
on popular sovereignty
in mining

Ana Alfinito, Senior
Campaigner, Amazon
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17:00Launch: Banking on
Biodiversity Collapse 2025
report		Merel van der Mark,
Coordinator, Forests &
Finance Coalition

Tom Picken, Forests &
Finance Director,
Rainforest Action
Network
18:00Forests & Finance
reception		Forests & Finance
Coalition