CAF joins as a strategic partner of the RedLAC 2025 International Congress of Environmental Funds

The meeting will take place in Chile at the end of September 2025, bringing together world leaders in financing the conservation and restoration of Natural Capital.

La firma del acuerdo de entendimiento se llevó a cabo en el área marina protegida Pitipalena Añihue. En la fotografía superior, de izquierda a derecha: Alicia Montalvo, Sergio Díaz - Granados, Eugenio Rengifo, Patricio Merino.

From the Pitipalena – Añihué marine protected area, located in Chilean Patagonia, the incorporation of CAF - development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean - as a strategic ally of the RedLAC 2025 Congress was announced, organized by the network of environmental funds of Latin America and the Caribbean RedLAC and the host environmental fund, Fondo Naturaleza Chile.

By joining as a strategic ally, the multilateral organization seeks to promote discussions and actions on new financing mechanisms and initiatives to protect biodiversity and improve the lives of communities and ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean.

“At CAF, we reaffirm our commitment to the sustainable development of Latin America and the Caribbean through this strategic alliance with RedLAC and Fondo Naturaleza Chile. The RedLAC 2025 Congress represents a unique opportunity to strengthen innovative financing mechanisms that protect our natural capital while generating inclusive economic development. We seek to catalyze investments that promote biodiversity conservation and the well-being of communities, aligned with the objectives of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the region’s climate commitments,” stated Sergio Díaz-Granados, Executive President of CAF.

En la fotografía superior, de izquierda a derecha: Senador Ricardo Lagos Weber, Alicia Montalvo, Sergio Díaz - Granados, Eugenio Rengifo, Patricio Merino, Erick Castro.

The RedLAC Congress, to be held in Chile between September 29 and October 3, 2025, has established itself as a unique space to bring together environmental funds, strategic allies, international cooperation partners, impact investors, government representatives and communities committed to the protection of natural heritage.

“I am honored to announce that the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) is joining our RedLAC 2025 Congress as a strategic partner. This is the most important event in conservation finance, where we will learn how environmental funds become engines of development for the different strategies that support the conservation and restoration of natural resources, landscapes, and ecosystems in our countries,” said Jorge Oviedo, president of RedLAC.

The memorandum of understanding signed between CAF and Fondo Naturaleza Chile also aims to find solutions for the conservation of key ecosystems in Latin America. Furthermore, it seeks to jointly promote a high-impact ecosystem agenda in order to catalyze funding for:

• The fulfillment of the objectives and goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

• Chile's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

• To be able to present results within the framework of COP30 in Belem do Para in Brazil and at COP 17 on Biodiversity in 2026

“We are very pleased to announce that CAF is joining us as a strategic partner, not only at the RedLAC Congress, which translates into promoting an international agenda for green finance and funding the conservation and restoration of key ecosystems for the region, but also for achieving international biodiversity goals and objectives,” said Eugenio Rengifo, Executive Director of Fondo Naturaleza Chile. “This demonstrates their commitment to protecting strategic ecosystems that are interconnected with each other and with other hemispheric ecosystems, which provide key benefits for ensuring the livelihoods of local populations,” he added.