CALI, Colombia: The International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB) today launched its Framework for high integrity biodiversity credit markets. The Framework lays the foundation for how biodiversity credits, a financing mechanism, can be harnessed to drive much needed investment towards the conservation and restoration…

Discussions, platforms, and agreements established during Climate Week must be connected to future global milestones, including the G20 and COP30 in Brazil Rio de Janeiro, October 3, 2024 – As it happens every year, New York once again hosted Heads of State, diplomats, experts, private…

With active participation in high-level discussions, Igarapé leads agendas on global governance, digital space, development financing, climate and nature, connecting the discussions in New York to upcoming global milestones, such as the G20 and COP30.   Starting this week, New York City will host high-level…

Igarapé presents a contribution to the global mechanism for the protection of tropical forests.   Bulletin launched at COP28 details a simple and intuitive system to incentivize those who protect standing forests. The study contributes to the debate brought about by the “Tropical Forests Forever”…

Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.

After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream

The world is facing interconnected and complex global challenges

With tensions rising between global powers, digital attacks increasing in frequency and intensity, deepening climate threats and dangerously uneven Covid-19 recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of how interconnected our fates are

On this episode of the Brazil Institute podcast, host Anya Prusa speaks with Ilona Szabó, the co-founder and president of the Igarapé Institute, and a recognized expert on questions of public security, crime, and violence in Brazil

This is one of a series of articles written by Young Global Leaders with action-oriented ideas to improve the state of the world by 2030

The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point

From abroad, she’s urging lawmakers and the country’s Supreme Court to strike down the measures.

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho points out that while violent crime declined in the city, it increased in the rest of the state — a phenomenon reflecting the judicial decision to ban police operations in the city.