How can companies set goals that go beyond financial profits? How can organisations create prosperity through purpose? What type of leadership do we need to get there? This event will delve into these challenges and opportunities. It will challenge business practices, inspire innovations, and demonstrate that profitability through sustainability works.
This collaborative session will onboard the audience in identifying potential barriers to engaging with emerging funds and lead the group to propose solutions to overcome these obstacles. From this session, we want to identify several key action items to facilitate the development of catalytic financing mechanisms.
Regenerative practices can reduce the environmental impact of our global food system, but financing this transition at scale is a major challenge. This session will discuss the current financing bottlenecks for companies and growers, explore solutions, and share successful case studies.
A practical exploration into how agrologistics data, business models, finance, policy, technology can be channelled to unlock public and private finance to transform food systems. A consortium of global stakeholders explains their transition approach and how to bridge the need of global institutions and local businesses.
An interactive workshop leveraging inputs from the EU EIT Food Regenerative Innovation Portfolio, European and WEF Global Food Innovation Hubs, and diverse stakeholders to develop practical pathways to unlock financing for regenerative agriculture landscapes with a focus on local implementation.
Be it for ESG integration, climate risk modeling, impact investing, streamlining data processing etc. AI could support financial institutions in many aspects in their transition. We will showcase market usage of AI, its challenges, and define with the participants how to best leverage this technology to accelerate the transition.
The launch event for the Swiss National National Partner to the GSG on Impact Investing features an introduction by SSF and Tameo, a statement from the NP Executive Chair, and an overview of key projects for 2025. Attendees will discuss predefined challenges in small groups, guided by experts.
Economists agree: pricing emissions brings systemic climate finance incentives. However, challenges remain: from incomprehension and fear of loss of competitiveness to pressure on low-income groups. The Climate Incentive (CI) addresses these by covering all emissions and disbursing all income to citizens. CI will be critically discussed to design consensual policies.
A workshop spotlighting how financial institutions are reporting on GHG emissions associated with financial activity. Practitioners will present learnings from their disclosure of these emissions, as well as on the benefits realized. Participants will also be able to upskill on the implementation of the PCAF Standard in tailored breakout sessions.
The six breakout rooms will be focussed on the following topics:
- Data: (regional) challenges and approaches to overcome them.
How to deal with the data availability? How could data be collected from clients? - The challenge of including Scope 3 emissions in portfolio emissions: how to obtain high-quality Scope 3 data from portfolio companies and what sectors to focus on?
- The SME Challenge: how FIs can support their SME customers/investees to provide better data.
- GHG accounting journey: How to get started – Knowledge sharing from new joiners to frontrunners.
- FI internal challenges: where do participants see the biggest internal challenges and how could they be overcome?
- How can PCAF further support financial institutions?
STORM Partners is proud to explore the transformative potential of blockchain in finance and sustainability at our Building Bridges 2024 panel. Industry leaders will discuss cutting-edge applications, challenges, and future trends, highlighting real-world use cases.