Panel
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
The Growing Green Finance Gap: Can Digital Bonds be the Bridge?
Digital bonds, including tokenisation and real-time impact verification, are emerging as a way to unlock sustainability finance flows: lower costs, faster and more flexible issuance, less risk of greenwashing. This interactive session runs as an open Q&A. Our panel of global experts advises issuers, from cities to corporates, on how digitalising green and sustainability-labelled bonds could deliver the finance they need. Panellists bring practitioner experience across sustainable finance, banking, municipal finance, urban climate measures and resilience projects. Bring your most pressing questions on city climate finance and we will explore the challenges together.
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Climate
Emerging Markets
Innovative Finance
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room F (Level 2)
Keynote
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Investing in regenerative value chains for returns and impact
As climate change, nature loss and supply chain disruption increasingly threaten food security and agricultural productivity, regenerative agriculture is moving from a sustainability ambition to a business and investment imperative. This session will explore how investors, farmers, operators and food companies can work together to build regenerative value chains that deliver both attractive financial returns and measurable environmental outcomes. Featuring a keynote from Marc Palahi, Chief Nature Officer at Lombard Odier Investment Managers, alongside José Maria Ortiz, Managing Partner at NatureCo, and leaders from across the value chain, the discussion will examine the partnerships, financing approaches and long-term offtake agreements needed to scale the transition. Panellists will explore how regenerative practices can mitigate climate-related risks, strengthen supply security and create lasting value for farmers, investors and consumers, while highlighting practical insights and lessons learned from across the ecosystem. Join us for what promises to be an insightful and engaging discussion […]
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Climate
Impact Investing
Nature
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room B (Level 0)
Solutions Stage
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:00 CEST
Unlocking Investment in Nature and Ecosystem Restoration
Nature-positive investments are increasingly recognised as essential to climate resilience, biodiversity protection and sustainable development, yet significant financing gaps remain, particularly in emerging markets.
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Climate
Impact Investing
Innovative Finance
Nature
Centre International de Conférences Genève
Workshop
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
Climate Adaptation: From Risk to Impact
Through an interactive format, the workshop will examine the different facets of climate adaptation and climate risk. Participants will gain insights into how banks, asset managers, the real economy, public authorities, and the World Bank are currently addressing these challenges, before jointly discussing remaining gaps and opportunities to further enhance action in the future.
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Climate
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room C (Level 0)
Fishbowl Discussion
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
De-risking the Future: Nature-based Infrastructure for Insurability and Resilience
With climate change, infrastructure assets face ever-evolving risks. This event explores how nature-based solutions (NBS) can improve the insurability, and thus bankability of infrastructure assets, and how they can enable resilience at scale. Insurance, conservation and non-profit partners will investigate financial incentives, data, partnerships, and regulatory responses needed to unlock insurance coverage and to guarantee resilient infrastructure through nature-based or hybrid solutions.
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Climate
Innovative Finance
Nature
Policy & Regulation
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room 9 (Level 2)
Workshop
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
How the Financial Sector Can Help Tackle Economic Inequality
Rising inequality poses systemic risks to economies and financial markets. Yet investors, financial institutions and policymakers often lack clarity on their role. This interactive workshop brings together financial sector actors to explore practical levers for change — from capital allocation and stewardship to policy engagement and disclosure — and to identify concrete next steps.
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Social
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room E (Level 3)
Panel
6 Oct | 14:00 – 15:30 CEST
Unlocking Scalable Investment Opportunities in Emerging Markets
Institutional investors are increasingly seeking investment opportunities in emerging markets that align financial returns with sustainable development impact, yet accessing these opportunities at scale remains challenging. This session will spotlight new approaches and investment solutions developed by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) to facilitate private capital deployment into emerging markets. Discussions will focus on practical examples of commercial investment opportunities, highlighting how de-risking mechanisms and partnership models can support scalable institutional allocations.
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Emerging Markets
Innovative Finance
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room A (Level 0)
Panel
6 Oct | 15:30 – 16:30 CEST
Information Integrity: The Missing Infrastructure of Prosperity
True economic prosperity requires trusted data, yet synthetic media and algorithmic volatility are quietly fracturing the information ecosystem on which markets and society rely. This panel reframes information integrity as essential economic infrastructure, examining how disinformation distorts reputation, misdirects capital, influences political outcomes and triggers market volatility. Bringing together academics, finance leaders, capital allocators and foundation executives, it tackles the real costs of informational decay and outlines a practical roadmap of verification standards, media literacy and strategic investment. The session marks the public launch of the Prospera Foundation.
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Fintech & AI
Policy & Regulation
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room B (Level 0)
Solutions Stage
6 Oct | 15:30 – 16:30 CEST
Making Nature Investable at Scale
Nature underpins economies, livelihoods and climate resilience, yet many natural assets remain difficult to finance, value and scale.
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Nature
Centre International de Conférences Genève
Speed Networking
6 Oct | 15:30 – 16:30 CEST
Speed Networking: Sustainability and Sovereignty
Building Bridges aims to connect individuals and institutions from various organisation types, sectors, and locations in order to foster collaboration and drive more finance to deliver real-world impact. Speed networking sessions aim to facilitate individual connections between people interested in similar topics to expand their networks and explore areas of synergy in their work. The session will follow a classic speed networking format where individuals rapid fire- introduce themselves to each other and then move on to a new person. Participants can expect to meet 8-10 new people during the session. This speed networking session is brought to you by our Diamond Sponsor Lombard Odier. The theme of this session is Sustainability and Sovereignty.
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Centre International de Conférences Genève – BB Connect
World Cafe
6 Oct | 15:30 – 17:00 CEST
From Satellite to Balance Sheet: Agricultural Intelligence for Insurance, Finance and Risk Management
When a drought, conflict or market shock hits, how can insurers, lenders and investors keep capital flowing to agriculture when ground information is limited? This World Café explores how RAAPID (https://rfcatalytic.org/project/raapid/) turns earth observation and analytics into decision-ready intelligence within days, so that risk is priced, losses verified and investment de-risked in time for the communities most exposed.
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Climate
Emerging Markets
Innovative Finance
Nature
Policy & Regulation
Social
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room F (Level 3)
Fishbowl Discussion
6 Oct | 16:00 – 17:00 CEST
Bridging the Gap: Scaling Chronic Disease Care in Africa for High-Return Private Investment
Africa’s growing demand for quality healthcare presents a significant opportunity for investors. This discussion will examine how investment can expand access to quality care from primary to tertiary healthcare levels, while supporting the development of chronic care infrastructure and services. Particularly addressing the rising burden of cancer and other NCDs. You will have the opportunity to engage with the panel speakers and experts and witness actionable strategies, proven approaches, and opportunities to scale solutions that effectively address Africa’s healthcare needs.
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Emerging Markets
Innovative Finance
Social
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room 9 (Level 2)
Presentation
6 Oct | 16:00 – 17:00 CEST
AI & Nature
Climate risk speaks in broad terms. A drought, a heatwave, a shifting rainfall pattern, playing out across whole regions, where a regional signal is often enough. Nature doesn’t work that way. Whether a site sits in a stressed watershed, near a protected area, or on degrading soil is a question about that site alone. Nature risk is specific – down to individual assets. AI makes that specificity possible at scale. This turns a point on a map into three answers investors need: which assets face the highest probable impacts, which depend on resources like water to operate, and how financially material those risks are to the assets – and companies – involved.
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Nature
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room A (Level 0)
Workshop
6 Oct | 16:00 – 17:30 CEST
Transitioning High-Impact Industries: How Investors Can Balance Climate, Nature and People ? The case of the Fashion Industry
Climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and human rights are interconnected challenges reshaping investment risks and opportunities. Using the fashion industry as a case study, this interactive workshop will explore how investors can integrate climate, nature and social considerations into investment decisions, stewardship and capital allocation. Through a practical case study and moderated roundtables, participants will examine how to manage trade-offs, maximise synergies and scale credible, investable solutions that deliver positive outcomes for people, planet and long-term business resilience.
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Climate
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room C (Level 0)
World Cafe
6 Oct | 16:00 – 17:30 CEST
Banking perspectives on social and human rights impacts of artificial intelligence
Commercial banks are increasingly active in financing the AI value chain. This workshop provides a space for financial practitioners and human rights experts to build a shared understanding of how banks engage clients on digital infrastructure. Participants will map current industry practices and identify cross-sector collaboration to address human rights risks and opportunities within the artificial intelligence value chain.
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Fintech & AI
Social
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room E (Level 3)
Solutions Stage
6 Oct | 17:00 – 18:00 CEST
Scaling Regenerative Agriculture & Forestry
Agriculture and forestry are at the heart of the transition toward more resilient, productive and nature-positive economies.
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Climate
Nature
Panel
6 Oct | 17:30 – 19:00 CEST
From Risk to Investment: Financing Climate and Disaster Resilience
This session will explore how financial institutions can integrate climate and disaster risk into financial decision-making and unlock investment in resilience. Convening leaders from banks, insurers, investors and policymakers, the discussion will highlight innovative financial instruments, market practices and partnerships that can help mobilize capital and scale adaptation and resilience finance globally.
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Climate
Emerging Markets
Innovative Finance
Policy & Regulation
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room B (Level 0)
Fishbowl Discussion
6 Oct | 17:30 – 19:00 CEST
From Field Risk to Bankable Transition
How do you move a farmer from awareness of regenerative practices to adoption at scale? Drawing on a live pilot in Canada, this session presents an integrated pathway: P&L mapping to identify transition risks and ROI at the farm level; parametric insurance piloted by a global insurer to de-risk practices; and downstream demand anchoring to ease the transition. Together, they offer a globally replicable architecture for mobilizing capital into agricultural transition — farm by farm, risk by risk.
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Climate
Innovative Finance
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room 9 (Level 2)
Workshop
6 Oct | 17:30 – 19:00 CEST
Catalysing SDG Capital Through De-Risking: The Role of Donors and Development Partners
This interactive session explores practical pathways for donors, foundations, family offices, and development agencies that want to begin or deepen their journey in impact investing, sharing evidence on what works and where donors can make the greatest difference. Expert insights will be followed by practical roundtable discussions where participants work through different de-risking tools – guarantees, technical assistance, pay-for-impact and catalytic investment models – that have the power to unlock private capital flows in emerging economies and frontier markets.
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Climate
Impact Investing
Innovative Finance
Social
Systemic Change
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room F (Level 3)
Panel
6 Oct | 17:30 – 19:00 CEST
Unlocking Investment for Nature in Amazonia: Catalytic Capital for High-Integrity Ecosystems and Biodiversity
How can catalytic capital mobilize private investment into nature and biodiversity in the Amazon? This session examines innovative financial mechanisms from blended finance structures to ecosystem credit frameworks that bridge global sustainable finance with Indigenous-led territorial governance. The Vital Reserves project in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Guyana serves as a case study for connecting concessional public funding with scalable private capital.
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Emerging Markets
Innovative Finance
Nature
Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room A (Level 0)
Soirée
6 Oct | 19:00 – 20:30 CEST
Opening Cocktail
Wrap up the day with refreshments and networking in the Village after the sessions on Tuesday, 6 October.
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Centre International de Conférences Genève – Village
Movie Screening
6 Oct | 20:15 – 22:15 CEST
Geneva Film Premiere: How to Live on Earth
How to Live on Earth is a feature documentary presented by Benedict Cumberbatch and produced by Open Planet Studios in association with the Villars Institute and Silvania. The screening is being hosted at Building Bridges in collaboration with Mercuria.
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Centre International de Conférences Genève – Room A (Level 0)
