Accessing capital has always been challenging for smaller and innovative early-stage companies providing climate and nature-based solutions in LAC. In many countries, the perception of financial and technological risks continues to impede innovative green activities and acts as a barrier for first movers in the market. Investments often exceed most investors’ risk appetites and … [Read more...] about Five Lessons from Enabling the Green Start-Up Ecosystem in LAC
Michaela Seelig
Michaela Seelig is a senior climate change and sustainability specialist at the IDB, working with green concessional funds and driving innovative financial projects and mechanisms for climate and nature. Previously, Michaela worked at the Ministry of Climate Action in Austria as Director of Sustainable Finance, leading the design and implementation of the national agenda of greening the financial system, and at IDB Invest, collaborating with investment officers and clients to incentivize investments in climate change, ecosystem services and biodiversity. Her experience also includes international and European climate change and sustainable finance policies, the European Sustainable Finance Taxonomy and integrated sustainability management in a global manufacturing company.
Upscaling Silvopastoral Systems in South America
The world population is expected to increase to almost 10 billion people in 2050, and securing the supply of wood and timber from sustainable sources without competing for agricultural land and food production has already become a challenge in many parts of the world. In recent decades’ export-oriented industrial agriculture has become the main driver of South American land use … [Read more...] about Upscaling Silvopastoral Systems in South America