Brazil
The first climate case to reach the Supreme Court in Brazil - brought by four opposition parties - had its public hearing in September. Joana Setzer, who made a presentation to the hearing, reports from the Court and considers the case’s wider significance. Read more
Brazil ended 2019 with virtually the same level of GDP that it had in 2012 and now the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exert further downward pressure. Leveraging green finance may be the best way to tap more resources from domestic and foreign institutional investors now that sustainable investment is a growing necessity. In fact, the time is ripe for a green decade, argues Mario Mesquita in this post for the Sustainable Finance Leadership series. Read more
Alexandra Pinzon, Nick Robins and Gabriel Thoumi explore how investors in sovereign bonds can take action to confront the risks of deforestation, with a focus on Brazil. Read more
The sovereign transition to sustainability: Understanding the dependence of sovereign debt on nature
The transition to sustainability is the strategic challenge sovereign bonds face in the 2020s. Overcoming this challenge requires that the... Read more
Joint report provides first framework for factoring natural capital risk into sovereign debt analysis London, 5th February 2020: The dependence... Read more
Novo estudo mostra que mais de um terço dos títulos soberanos do Brasil serão impactados por diretrizes ambientais mais rígidas... Read more
The urgency of the climate crisis requires several degrees of intervention and the involvement of state powers, the private sector... Read more
The urgency of the climate crisis requires several degrees of intervention and the involvement of state powers, the private sector... Read more
The urgency of the climate crisis requires several degrees of intervention and the involvement of state powers, the private sector... Read more