EGADE joins leading Latin American business schools to advance new climate leadership alliance
DAVID F. DELGADO S. | EGADE BUSINESS SCHOOL
EGADE Business School at Tecnológico de Monterrey joined four other Latin American business schools to create Business Schools for Climate Leadership Latam (BS4CL Latam), a regional network designed to connect academic knowledge with the challenges businesses face as they respond to climate change.
The alliance brings together EGADE Business School (Mexico), Fundação Getulio Vargas EAESP (Brazil), the School of Management at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), INCAE Business School (Costa Rica), and IAE Business School (Argentina).
The agreement was signed in July by representatives of the five institutions and publicly announced during the Digital with Purpose: Land, Water and Data: Just Transition Starts in the South summit, held on August 25 and 26.
Representing EGADE, Horacio Arredondo Villalba, dean of EGADE Business School, signed the agreement alongside Ximena Rueda Fajardo, dean of the School of Management at Universidad de los Andes; Camelia Ilie Cardoza, rector of INCAE Business School; Luiz Artur Ledur Brito, dean of Fundação Getulio Vargas EAESP; and Carolina Dams, dean of IAE Business School.
Climate knowledge from Latin America for business
BS4CL Latam seeks to strengthen collaboration among business schools and bring academic research closer to the business challenges facing the region. Its main areas of work include collaborative research, the development of decision-making tools, and stronger connections among the academic and business communities of the five institutions.
The network is grounded in a regional premise: Latin America faces economic, productive and social conditions that differ from those of developed economies and therefore needs to develop responses to climate change that reflect its own realities.
In this context, Horacio Arredondo highlighted the transformations underway in Mexico, the need to pursue sustainable growth, and the potential of technology to create new development opportunities.
“Latin America needs to build responses to climate change from its own reality. This alliance allows us to bring together knowledge, leadership and regional collaboration, and translate those ideas into business decisions that support more sustainable growth”.
This perspective aligns with one of BS4CL Latam’s core objectives: to generate knowledge in Latin America and share it with the world, rather than simply adapting research or solutions developed for other contexts. It also converges with EGADE Business School’s purpose of rethinking the future of business to advance sustainable development in Latin America.
The regional network was introduced in 2025 during COP30 in Belém as part of the global Business Schools for Climate Leadership initiative. The agreement signed in July strengthens cooperation among the five institutions.
EGADE expands its climate leadership and resilience agenda
EGADE Business School’s participation in BS4CL Latam adds to other initiatives through which the school addresses the implications of climate change for strategy, finance and business decision-making.
Among them is the Executive Education program Climate Governance for Board Members and Senior Executives, designed for board members and senior leaders. The program addresses physical and transition risks, sustainable finance, and international frameworks such as IFRS S1 and S2, ISSB and TCFD, as well as tools to integrate the climate agenda into board oversight, strategy and decision-making.
Through BS4CL Latam, EGADE expands this agenda through a regional platform that connects academic knowledge, business experience and cross-country collaboration to develop climate responses grounded in the realities of Latin America.
