As geopolitical tensions continue to escalate globally, it is crucial that investors understand how their portfolio companies interact with conflict – both how they are impacted, and how they may contribute through their operations and supply chains. In this session, a new investor tool for peace finance will be launched and participants will explore investor legal obligations, risk management, and the potential to have a positive impact on peace through their investments.
How can capital flow into Africa’s frontier markets, and what will it take to unlock private investment at scale? The Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Roadmap for Africa, led by WEF and AfDB, presents a model built on ecosystem collaboration. Grounded in local ownership and aligned stakeholders, it shows how to de-risk markets, strengthen pipelines and unlock investment, with the ambition to mobilize $10B, support 1,000 businesses and launch 10 country alliances by 2030.
This session explores opportunities in sustainable African aquaculture – high potential or high risk? It highlights innovative models that advance equitable, socially inclusive business growth and how early movers unlock economic and environmental value. Using real-world case studies, investors gain actionable strategies to de-risk investments, scale nature-positive solutions, and mobilize financing that supports resilient systems and diverse participation.
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.
Nature provides ecosystem services for 50% of all global economic activities. Thereby, nature is the largest asset class without a market. In order to scale up the financing for nature-positive solutions, we need to structure financial instruments such as bonds that are both creating incentives to restore biodiversity while being attractive investment opportunities. The Nature Bonds Initiative has the objective to ignite this market.
How do we move capital at the scale nature needs? This session explores WWF’s Landscape Finance Approach as a bridge between greening finance and financing green, aligning financial flows with nature-positive outcomes while unlocking scalable investment opportunities.
iGravity and the Impact-Linked Finance Collaborative will host an interactive workshop on how results-based finance (RBF) can strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging markets. Bringing together donors, investors, intermediaries and SMEs, the session will explore practical applications of RBF, including impact-linked finance, highlighting lessons learned, good practices and key success factors for scaling impact.
Pension funds are central to retirement planning today, but their portfolios are financing the climate instability, biodiversity loss, and social erosion that degrade returns over the timeframes that matter. The mandate to deliver smooth returns is structurally self-defeating. This session confronts that paradox head-on, looking at what the numbers actually show, what fiduciary duty means when systemic risk is dominant, and what a pension system designed for the 21st century could look like.
Global value chains face converging, system‑level pressures from climate impacts, nature loss, resource scarcity, and emerging AI risks. This session explores how companies can build resilience along value chains in ways that are recognized and rewarded by financial markets, highlighting the role of nature‑based solutions and circularity strategies in strengthening long‑term value and capital allocation.
Asia is rapidly rising in the global financial system, driven by economic growth, expanding capital markets, while facing increasing climate risks. Hong Kong is positioning itself as a leading hub for green and sustainable finance through policy innovation and market development. This event explores whether Asia is the next frontier in sustainable finance, bringing together finance experts from different segments. It will examine how shifting geopolitics influence the role of Asia in sustainable finance and highlight policy frameworks enabling low-carbon transition and climate adaptation, including taxonomies, transparency standards, and green bond initiatives.