From 30 September – 2 October 2025, Building Bridges returns to Geneva for its sixth edition at a pivotal moment for sustainable finance. This year’s edition builds on proven formats that enable collaboration to drive capital towards real-world impact, sharpen the investment case for sustainability, and strengthen collaboration across sectors. With growing urgency and complexity defining the global landscape, Building Bridges is doubling down on action—spotlighting scalable finance solutions that address systemic risks and unlock long-term value.

Organised by the Building Bridges Foundation on behalf of its Founding Partners—a unique alliance spanning the financial sector, public authorities, and Geneva-based international organisations—this flagship event is a launchpad for investment-ready ideas, strategic alliances, and high-impact partnerships.

Now in its sixth year, the platform will convene senior decision-makers and asset allocators to spotlight investable solutions across the sustainability value chain—from nature-positive portfolios to social infrastructure and transition technologies. With risk mitigation at the forefront, Building Bridges will profile strategies to manage climate and nature-related financial risks, enhance resilience, and convert uncertainty into opportunity.

The Summit and high-level Plenaries set the strategic tone, spotlighting strategies to finance the net-zero and nature-positive transition, scale innovative mechanisms, and align corporate action with sustainability goals. A crowd-sourced programme of Action Events and the dynamic Solutions Stage will workshop and spotlight innovations designed to de-risk capital flows and mainstream sustainability into financial decision-making. Meanwhile, curated networking moments throughout the event foster connections that have the potential to translate dialogue into deployable capital and durable impact. 

Registration will open mid-June. In the meantime:

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• Indicate your interest in attending on our LinkedIn event page.
• Reach out to us at community@buildingbridges.org for general enquiries and at media@buildingbridges.org for media accreditation. 

What to expect

Each year, the high-level Summit and the Plenaries bring all participants together to set the tone and spotlight the most compelling trends, tensions, and investment opportunities reshaping the financial sector today. To complement this, the Action Events programme is crowdsourced and co-curated by a coalition of over 100 partner organisations, ensuring that the agenda reflects the priorities, innovations and tensions shaping the future of sustainable finance.

Expect a space that is vibrant, immersive, and deeply participatory — not just panels and speeches, but with interactive workshops, roundtables, and fishbowl discussions designed to engage every voice in the room. You don’t just listen at Building Bridges — you co-create solutions alongside asset owners, asset managers, impact investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and young changemakers from around the world.

Who’s attending?

The strength of Building Bridges rests in its diversity. The scale and complexity of transitioning to a sustainable financial system requires the contributions of all sectors of society – the finance industry, companies, start-ups, governments, the UN, NGOs, academic institutions, philanthropists, asset owners, and more. Participating in Building Bridges gives you the opportunity to connect with different actors and find opportunities for collaboration. 

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