Brazil has a USD 70B sustainable debt market. Less than 5% reaches green real estate — not for lack of assets, but for lack of verified, finance-grade evidence. We are building the methodology that changes this.
Nostrum Public Affairs operates at the intersection of sustainable capital markets, real estate, and cross-continental policy. Our work is not advisory in the conventional sense — we build the evidence frameworks, institutional partnerships, and replicable methodologies that markets cannot produce on their own.
Working across Brazil and Europe, we bring institutional credibility to initiatives that require both deep technical expertise and sophisticated stakeholder engagement at the highest levels. Registered on the EU Transparency Register, we engage formally with European institutions, development finance bodies, and regulatory frameworks.
We build the financial evidence architecture that markets cannot produce alone — audit-backed, standardised, ready for institutional use by banks, funds, and regulators.
Every deliverable is designed to withstand scrutiny from credit committees, investment mandates, and regulatory frameworks simultaneously — not just to satisfy a client brief.
Our programs are designed to leave behind replicable standards, not consulting dependencies. When we finish, the market is permanently different — not temporarily better-informed.
We build the evidence infrastructure that connects certified green building performance to bankable financial outcomes. This is not green-washing advisory — it is the hard work of generating audited, replicable proof that certified assets outperform, priced in the language of credit committees and investment mandates.
We act as the strategic bridge for institutions and companies navigating regulatory environments, building partnerships, and deploying capital across Brazil and the European Union. Our Brussels registration and EU institutional relationships — across DG FISMA, DG INTPA, EIB, and development finance bodies — give our clients access to conversations that cannot be bought.
The problem was this: no financial institution in Brazil could price a green building premium with audited confidence. Certified buildings were outperforming their conventional equivalents — faster sales, stronger yields, lower default risk — but the evidence was anecdotal, fragmented, and unconvincing to credit committees. Capital that should have flowed didn't.
In partnership with GBC Brasil, we built the Casa Toolkit — the first systematic, finance-grade evidence framework for green buildings in a major emerging market. We analysed 1,447 certified projects across 74.7M m², not to produce a report, but to produce the evidentiary foundation for a new class of financial instrument. The findings were unambiguous: 0–10% CAPEX uplift unlocks 5–10% sales premiums, 25–40bps cheaper debt, and two months faster absorption.
The current program goes further. It is generating audited, pilot-level micro-evidence from live projects — the kind of data that rewrites underwriting policy, not just informs it. The goal: unlock USD 7–10B in certified real estate capital by 2032, and build a methodology replicable across Latin America and beyond.
Advisory mandates supporting Brazilian agribusiness and construction sector clients on EUDR, CBAM and EU-Mercosur negotiations — converting regulatory pressure into competitive positioning and protecting trade exposure worth billions.
Ongoing advisory mandates connecting Brazilian institutions with European development finance, ESG capital frameworks, and bilateral investment flows — from regulatory alignment to instrument structuring.
The frameworks that reshaped institutional finance — LEED, GRESB, TCFD — were not reports. They were standards that forced the market to organize itself around verified evidence. None of them existed until someone built them.
The EU Taxonomy cannot operate in markets without Energy Performance Certificates. Global Gateway has EUR 300B to deploy in emerging markets and no verified framework for green asset classification outside Europe. European Article 9 funds are legally required to prove sustainability claims on every portfolio asset — but Brazilian green real estate is effectively uninvestable for them today, not because the assets are not green, but because the finance-grade evidence to prove it does not exist.
We are building that evidence. Audited. Replicable. Taxonomy-compatible. Designed to become the reference methodology for green building finance in emerging markets globally.
USD 70B in sustainable debt. Less than 5% reaches real estate. Not a supply problem — an evidence problem.
The EU Taxonomy gap in emerging markets. EUR 300B in Global Gateway capital with no verification framework. Article 9 funds locked out of Brazilian green real estate.
Audited, finance-grade evidence from live pilot projects. Replicable across LatAm. Compatible with EU Taxonomy, TSB, and SFDR disclosure requirements.
Brazil as the pilot. LatAm as the next step. The framework globally applicable — and already of interest to DG FISMA, IDB, EIB, and European institutional investors.
Identify structural market gaps where capital misallocation meets policy misalignment — pinpointing where intervention creates maximum systemic leverage.
Build audit-backed, finance-grade evidence that transforms market theses into bankable instruments — the connective tissue between technical performance and capital allocation.
Design stakeholder architectures that speak each actor's financial language simultaneously — from credit committees and investment mandates to regulatory frameworks and policy makers.
Convert proven methodologies into replicable standards — leveraging institutional networks to transform single-market pilots into regional frameworks with lasting systemic impact.
Over 15 years, Yasmina has connected Europe and Latin America — shaping policy, placing brands in tier-1 media, and quantifying the business upside of sustainability for governments, developers, and financial institutions. Co-author of the GBC Brasil Casa Toolkit, she led the analysis of 1,447 certified projects across 74.7M m², producing the financial evidence framework that links green building performance to bankable outcomes.
Registered on the EU Transparency Register, she has advised clients on EUDR, CBAM and EU-Mercosur negotiations. Exclusive commercial representative for Euronews in Brazil. Brokered the Caixin × Folha de S. Paulo partnership. Speaker curator for CEOs and policy makers at WEF and international forums.
LinkedIn ProfileDiogo brings over 20 years of experience scaling financial institutions across emerging markets. As CEO LATAM for Fosun Group (USD 80B global), he built a platform from zero to USD 40B AUM/AUC in 36 months, delivered 150% revenue growth, and closed the majority acquisition of Rio Bravo Asset Management — Brazil's leading independent asset manager. As EVP at Banco Caixa Geral Brasil, he built a 160-person wholesale banking platform ranked Top 10 in Brazil for M&A, Project Finance, and DCM, winning five international awards (Euromoney ×3, PFI/Thomson Reuters ×2).
At Nostrum, he leads the Brazil–Europe advisory practice and institutional partnership strategy, including the GBC Brasil program on carbon markets and ESG-linked financial instruments.
LinkedIn ProfileNostrum is expanding its senior advisory team as the scope of our programs grows across Latin America and into European institutions. We are looking for practitioners who combine deep institutional knowledge with the ability to build things that last — not just advise.
Get in touchWhether you are a financial institution seeking to unlock the green building opportunity, a developer looking to translate certification into capital, a European institution engaging with emerging market frameworks, or a company navigating Brazil–Europe regulatory complexity — we welcome a conversation.