As traditional development funding faces unprecedented pressure, philanthropic impact investing offers a compelling opportunity to tackle systemic challenges. Strategies that deploy philanthropic resources to catalyze funding across the full spectrum of capital benefit from values-aligned collaboration. By partnering with others that bring complementary expertise and financing structures, foundations amplify their impact. This session will highlight success stories from an ecosystem perspective.

Urban heat is becoming a material risk for economies, infrastructure and communities. This session examines how financial innovation can help channel investment into solutions that reduce heat exposure and strengthen resilience. With perspectives from development finance, private investors and technical practitioners, the discussion will focus on creating investable structures, aligning incentives and scaling finance for urban heat resilience.

Nutrition is an underinvested driver of economic growth, human capital and climate resilience. Convened by ATNi with the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN) and Stronger Foundations for Nutrition (SFN), this session explores nutrition as an investable theme, highlighting financing approaches, investor-relevant data and practical examples to help address the $10.8bn annual financing gap, and support informed and coordinated investment approaches across markets.

This interactive workshop explores how impact valuation can turn sustainability data into decision-useful insights for investors and businesses. Through practical examples from our work with asset managers and corporates across sectors, and role-based discussion, participants will explore how different actors (asset managers, corporates, regulators) interpret information, where decision bottlenecks arise, and how financial markets can evolve to allocate capital more effectively.

How can financial institutions integrate biodiversity loss into portfolio decision-making? This interactive roundtable builds on BIROFIN research linking climate scenarios, ecosystem service loss, and macroeconomic impacts. Participants will explore how these insights can inform portfolio stress testing, screening, and capital allocation, drawing on findings from soil, pollination, and land-use scenarios, as well as emerging work on water-related risks.

Only 16% of climate finance needs are being met. Capital keeps flowing to the same type of founders, backing the same type of solutions. Much of the innovations we need aren’t getting funded. Philanthropy, deployed catalytically within a blended stack, is one of the most underleveraged tools we have. This session explores how philanthropic capital can de-risk early-stage climate ventures, crowd in private investment, and create a self-reinforcing model that funds the next wave of solutions.

How can solution providers design commercially appealing lending and investment products, aligned with biodiversity sciences, and drive capital towards positive impact?
Authors of the IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment present key findings, followed by insights from practitioners in asset management, banking, and private markets. Participants then co-design innovative investment approaches and product concepts in a workshop, identifying catalysts and barriers for scaling up.

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.

Gender and climate finance remain siloed—missing opportunities and limiting impact. This interactive World Café challenges that divide, bringing together investors and practitioners to explore how to integrate these lenses and scale solutions. Drawing on real cases from 2X Global and AlphaMundi Foundation (AMF)’s portfolios, participants engage in practical discussions on applying gender in climate finance, climate in gender investing, and mobilising capital for impact at scale.

Farmers and multinational companies face increasing climate risks. How do we build resilience and catalyse finance for agricultural value chains in Africa and Asia?
Starting with case studies of climate insurance products for the cocoa value chain in Cote d’Ivoire, coffee in Indonesia and shea nuts in Burkina Faso, speakers and participants will engage in roundtable discussions to identify opportunities for collaboration that derisk and unlock financing.