In an interview with WCF at the World Climate Investment Summit, Maria Netto, Executive Director of iCS, explores how nature, climate and economic development are fundamentally interconnected. The discussion highlights a new generation of financial mechanisms designed to unlock large-scale investment for nature, while still ensuring that local communities and indigenous peoples are at the centre of these solutions. 

At World Climate Summit & Investment COP 2025, we spoke with Lori Kerr, CEO of FinDev Canada, about how development finance is evolving, as climate risk, biodiversity loss, and economic resilience become inseparable.

COP30 reframed climate action as a global investment and economic coordination challenge, shifting from the Decade of Mobilisation to the Decade of Implementation.

A quiet but powerful shift is underway: nature finance is emerging as the next frontier. If climate finance was the first act of the sustainability era, nature finance is the sequel we cannot afford to miss.