Past events

The Latin American Trade and Investment Association (LATIA) and Canning House are delighted to host a business seminar at the Embassy of Brazil on the topic of Investing in Renewable Energy in Latin America. The seminar will gather leading policy-makers and specialists in Renewable Energy in Latin America to present an overview of the industry, its regulatory frameworks and some of the countries’ most attractive investment opportunities.

We are delighted to welcome Michael Reid for the launch of a revised and updated version of 'Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America', coming out with Yale University Press ten years after the original edition was first published, and launched at Canning House also.

Shell has been using scenario planning for over 45 years to help deepen its strategic thinking. These plausible visions of the future have helped generations of Shell leaders explore ways forward and make better decisions. Shell Scenarios ask “what if” questions, encouraging leaders to stretch their thinking and consider events that may only be remotely possible. The scenarios also help governments, academia and business in understanding possibilities and uncertainties ahead.

As the extent and scale of Brazilian construction group Odebrecht's bribery scheme has emerged over the past year, the resultant scandal has rocked the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, and even touched countries further afield.