Converge Capital Conference – Brazil Climate Investment Week 2025

Agenda > Converge Capital Conference

June 5th

Led by Converge Capital, founded by Marina Cançado. A full day of strategic content, cases, and dialogue on Brazil’s transition to a low-carbon, nature-positive economy — connecting 400+ investors, family offices, asset managers, executives, founders and government officials.

Registration and Welcome Coffee

Opening Remarks

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

Tony Lent – Co-founder of Capital for Climate and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

State of the climate in 2025

Moderator

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

David Fein – Vice Chair of The Earthshot Prize

Natalie Unterstell – President of Talanoa Institute

Is there still an appetite for investments in decarbonization and nature-based solutions amidst economic and geopolitical challenges?

Moderator

Sérgio Gusmão Suchodolski – Special Envoy to the Finance in Common Initiative and Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute

Part 1 – The perspective of international investors organizations (35′)

Jens Nielsen – Founder and CEO of World Climate Foundation

Liliana Manns – Director of Community of The ImPact

Rodrigo Bettini – Managing Director and Head of Latin America at Milken Institute

Tony Lent – Co-founder of Capital for Climate and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

Xenia zu Hohenlohe – Chief Country Officer of Sustainable Markets Initiative

Part 2 – The perspective of asset managers (35′)

Alexandre Bossi – Partner and Director at Perfin Climate

Aníbal Wadih – Managing Partner GEF Capital

Cristina Penteado – Board Member of ABVCAP and Managing Director and Head of Brazil of Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital

Guilherme Bragança – Partner and Head of IR at JGP and Régia Capital

Pedro Faria – Partner & Co-CEO for High Growth at Patria

Raphael Falcioni – Managing Director at Just Climate

Networking Coffee Break

New structures, instruments and facilities to enable capital flows to climate investments in the Global South

Moderator

Viviane Behar – Executive Advisor at Capital for Climate

Part 1 – Cases led by the Private Sector (40′)

Danielle Carreira – Climate and Nature Finance Specialist, WEF/IFACC

Leonardo Fleck – Sustainability Managing Director at Santander

Luciana Antonini Ribeiro – CEO at eB Climate and Leader of the Finance Taskforce at SB COP30

Marcelo Furtado – Co-founder of the Nature Investment Lab and Head of Sustainability at Itaúsa

Thiago Lang – Head of Industry Verticals, ESG Solutions, M&A and Transaction Solutions at Aon Brazil

Part 2 – Cases led by the Public Sector (25′)

Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen – Director of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative

Gustavo Fontenele – General-Coordinator of Decarbonization at the Secretariat of Green Economy at the Ministry of Industry

Filipe Borsato – Investment Manager at BNDES

Responding to polycrisis with polycapital and systemic investing

Moderator

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

Ana Sarkovas – Co-founder of Ecoa Capital

André Ticoulat – Research & Investment Associate at TransCap Initiative

Lucas Matarazzo – Co-founder of Mútua

Tania Rodriguez – Co-founder and CEO of Co-Impact

Networking Lunch

Parallel Sessions

Room A: Building capacity for climate finance in Brazil

Moderator

Annelise Vendramini – Sustainable Finance Expert

Cambria Allen-Ratzlaff – Chief RI Ecosystems Officer at PRI

Carlos Takahashi – Chairman at BlackRock Brazil and Vice President at Anbima

Paula Peirão – Coordinator in Brazil and Associate Regional Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNEP FI

Virgínia Gonçalves – Superintendent of Sustainability at B3

Room B: Networking and Bilateral Meetings

Room C: The role of philanthropic capital in the conservation and restoration of Brazilian biomes

Moderator

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of the Brazil Climate Investment Week

Camilla Seth – Founding Managing Director at Moore Foundation

Márcia Soares – Manager of Amazon and Partnerships at Fundo Vale

Mario Haberfeld – Founder and CEO of Onçafari

Renata Piazzon – General Director at Arapyaú Institute

Parallel Sessions

Room A – Asset Managers Investing in Climate Solutions

Moderator

Nina Vieira – Department Chief at BNDES

Part 1

Estevan Taguchi – Managing Director GEF Capital

Marina Tennenbaum – Partner, Head of Clients & COO for Brazil at Patria

Pedro Vilela – CEO and Co-founder of Rise

Raphael Falcioni – Managing Director at Just Climate

Tatiana Sasson – Head of Impact at Lightrock

Part 2

Moderator

Filipe Borsato – Investment Manager at BNDES

Alexandre Bossi – Partner and Director at Perfin Climate

Caroline Prolo – Head of Climate Stewardship at fama re.capital

Cláudio dos Anjos – Sustainable Finance Analyst at Régia Capital

Danilo Zelinski – Head of Investment for Nature and Climate Innovation at KPTL

Room B – Sustainable Market Initiative (SMI) Roundtable (Invite Only). Blended Finance: Blueprints for Scale and Inclusion

Room C – Materializing Brazil’s potential to prosper in a low carbon economy: business cases (session held in Portuguese without translation)

Moderator

Flora Bitancourt – Brazil Lead for World Climate Foundation

Case 1 – Acelen Renewables | Marcelo Nogueira – CFO

Case 2 – Motiva + BCG | Juliana Silva – Director of Sustainability at Motiva and Arthur Ramos – Managing Director and Partner for the Energy practice at Boston Consulting Group in Brazil

Case 3 – Lwart | Carlos Renato Trecenti – Chairman of the Board at Lwart

Case 4 – Vale | Rodrigo Lauria – Director of Climate Change and Carbon

Case 5 – BTG + Eneva | Vitor Santos – Director at BTG Pactual and Flávia Heller – Executive Director of Strategy and Sustainability at Eneva

Case 6 – Heineken | Ligia Camargo – Sustainability Director at Heineken

Pathways to Brazil’s prosperity in the 21st century

Moderator

Laura Jaguaribe

Daniela de Rogatis – CEO Legado – The Global Legacy Household

5 months to COP 30: what to expect from the private sector?

Part 1 – Presentation of the study “The Brazil that Brazil wants to be”

Moderator

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

Débora Emm – Founder and CEO of Inesplorato

Victor Cremasco – Partner and CEO of Mandalah

Part 2 – Conversation with COP30 CEO and High Level Climate Champion (30′)

Moderator

Marcelo Furtado – Co-founder of the Nature Investment Lab and Head of Sustainability of Itaúsa

Ana Toni – COP30 CEO

Dan Ioschpe – High Level Climate Champion for COP30

Part 3 – Conversation with Private Sector Leaders (30’)

Moderator

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

Camilla Lott – Interim Sustainability Vice-President at Vale

Maria Netto – Managing Director at Institute for Climate and Society

Marina Grossi – President of CEBDS and COP30 Special Envoy for the Business Sector

Patricia Ellen – Lead Partner for International Engagement and Positioning SB COP30

COP30 related Announcements and Final Remarks

Marina Cançado – Founder of Converge Capital and Co-organizer of Brazil Climate Investment Week

Flora Bitancourt – Brazil Lead for World Climate Foundation

Mariana Ribeiro – CEO and Co-founder of CLARICE

Michael Sheldrick – Co-Founder and Chief Policy, Impact and Government Affairs Officer at Global Citizen

Cocktail at the Garden