O.N.E Amazon calls for biodiversity to be treated as critical global infrastructure at the Nobel Sustainability Trust Summit 2025

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At the Nobel Sustainability Trust Summit 2025, O.N.E Amazon advanced a clear case for redefining biodiversity as critical global infrastructure, emphasizing that the stability of economies, climates, and societies fundamentally depends on the health of ecosystems such as the Amazon rainforest.

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Jill Hudkins, Chief Executive Global Advisory, AECOM; Rodrigo Veloso, Founder & CEO, O.N.E Amazon; Dr. Richard Hansen, President, Foundation for Anthropological Research & Environmental Studies (FARES); Gustavo Manrique, President of Sambito; Narendra Ramgulam, Deputy Director for Sustainable Tourism, Caribbean Tourism Organization.

The roundtable, moderated by Jill Hudkins, Chief Executive Global Advisory of AECOM, convened a distinguished group of leaders working across conservation, science, policy, and sustainable development, including Gustavo Manrique, President of Sambito and former Minister of Environment of Ecuador; Dr. Richard Hansen, archaeologist and President of the Foundation for Anthropological Research & Environmental Studies (FARES); and Narendra Ramgulam, Deputy Director for sustainable tourism, Caribbean Tourism Organization.

Together, the panel examined how biodiversity functions as critical global infrastructure, underpinning water security, food systems, climate regulation, economic resilience, and long-term national stability, and underscored the need for stronger data, governance, and investment models capable of operating at the scale of ecological challenges.

Within this broader context, O.N.E Amazon CEO Rodrigo Veloso, described the deployment of the world’s first Internet of Forests (IoF™) as a foundational step toward this goal. Hundreds of sensors, acoustic devices, soil monitors, and imaging technologies have already been installed in regions such as the Darién in Panama and the Chiribiquete National Park in Colombia. “If we can measure it, we can value it,” Veloso said. “ The Internet of Forests allows us to rebuild nature’s backbone infrastructure and understand biodiversity at a level that makes conservation investable.”

Veloso noted that O.N.E Amazon’s model has only become possible due to the recent convergence of key enablers: new regulatory clarity in the United States, advances in blockchain compliance standards such as ERC-3643, and the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence capable of processing the ecological intelligence captured by the IoF™. Together, these developments create, for the first time, the conditions for nature-backed Digital Asset Securities to operate under full regulatory compliance.

“We are only able to launch a fully regulated nature-backed Digital Asset Security now because the regulatory landscape has changed,” Veloso said. “The leadership of the Environmental Task Force, the Crypto Task Force, and the clarity emerging under President Trump’s GENIUS Act make this possible. And when you combine this with blockchain, through the ERC-3643 standard, and AI, we can finally bring nature into markets responsibly. Lasting conservation depends on aligning market incentives with ecological outcomes, responsibly harnessing the power of markets to ensure the forest is more valuable alive than dead.”

“O.N.E Amazon’s selection as the first regulated Digital Asset Security under the SEC Project Crypto Innovation Exemption acknowledgment of ERC-3643 is a significant moment for the future of compliant tokenization in the United States and the world,” said Dennis O’Connell, President of ERC-3643 and Partner and CTO at PSG. “It shows the impact of global standards for identity, compliance, and investor protection can be practically applied to real-world assets with integrity. It proves that regulated digital infrastructure can deliver outcomes that matter, in this case supporting the long-term protection and economic valuation of one of the planet’s most essential ecosystems . ERC-3643 Association is proud to recognize O.N.E Amazon as a model for how responsible digital assets should be built.”

As global discussions increasingly recognize biodiversity as essential infrastructure, O.N.E Amazon is building the technological and financial architecture capable of protecting the Amazon rainforest at the scale the planet requires.

About O.N.E Amazon

O.N.E Amazon is a disruptive company that transforms conservation into Investment with Purpose. At its core is the O.N.E Amazon Coin (OAC), a new Digital Asset Security– soon to be launched- supported by the Internet of Forests (IoF™) and the One Amazon Impact & Sustainability Fund (OAIF). By turning the Amazon’s invisible services into measurable financial value, we make conservation more valuable than deforestation. By investing 85% of all funds raised into local initiatives, O.N.E Amazon delivers measurable impact for nature, for people, and for investors alike.

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