Sergio Henrique Collaço de Carvalho
Partner & Head of Sustainability,
Planet First Partners
Sergio spent more than 15 years in various technical and managerial positions in the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and associated agencies before engaging with sustainable finance in 2017. Since 2021, he has been actively engaged with sustainable investments and has served in 2022, 2023, and 2024 on the Expert Advisory Panel of the Earthshot Prize. He is Partner and Head of Sustainability for Planet First Partners. He started his career on the Brazilian National Institute for the Environment, at first working with the environmental assessment of energy projects and then moving over to Protected Areas. During his time in government he was appointed as Director of Protected Areas and then deputy National Secretary for Biodiversity, having raised USD 230 million for the third phase of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. In the past 6 years Sergio started working with ESG and sustainable finance and in early 2021 joined the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance as a sherpa to the representative of the NGO Agent Green, reappointed in 2023 for the second iteration of the platform.