Debora Batista
Finance & Project ManagerCommunities and Territorial Governance Initiative
Debora has over 10 years of professional experience managing projects at NGOs. She has a post-graduate degree in social innovation from Amani Institute and a masters degree in sustainability management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas Business School. Her masters’ dissertation researched the impact of agribusiness on traditional communities in Brazil and their efforts to stop environmental degradation. She is fluent in English and Spanish in addition to her native Portuguese.
Prior to joining Forest Trends, Debora was a senior analyst at WWF-Brazil, working with deforestation and conversion-free finance. Before WWF, she was a program analyst at the Institute for Entrepreneurial Citizenship working on impact investment and social innovation and also was the co-founder of Engajamundo Youth Association, raising awareness among young people regarding social and environmental issues, including developing a capacity-building methodology for young people to understand how to participate in the construction of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
State of Climate and Conservation Finance for Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Report
Trust, Tenure, Transparency: Foundations for More Equitable Climate & Conservation Finance
By Arthur Blundell, Emily Harwell, Beto Borges, Debora Batista, Melissa Panhol View PublicationIndigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs) are recognized as some of the most effective stewards of forests and biodiversity, yet they continue to receive only a fraction of the funding that is meant to protect these ecosystems. This gap is more than a matter of fairness. It undermines the effectiveness of climate action, […]