Brazil can showcase biodiversity as a driver of development at COP30

Brazil must demonstrate at COP30 that biodiversity can drive development, leveraging its advanced laws and immense biological wealth. Despite possessing the planet's largest biodiversity and a modern legal framework for access since 2015, Brazil struggles to translate these assets into concrete economic results, with slow benefit-sharing agreements and system inefficiencies hindering progress. The upcoming COP30 in Belém presents a crucial opportunity for Brazil to showcase its capacity for sustainable development through effective policies, legal certainty, and intelligent utilization of its natural resources.