These daily sessions will provide an update on the day’s highlights from PRI in Person – the annual conference of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) – which is taking place in Tokyo this week.

WWF will present why financial institutions should care about deforestation and land conversion and how Swiss financial institutions are linked to these subjects. The pitch will present a 4-step approach for financial institutions to address this subject.

ForestIQ is a new nonprofit data alliance, designed for and with the finance sector to scale up their action and influence over the companies in their portfolios driving deforestation – while accelerating progress on their own climate and nature goals.

Join the launch of SFG’s Peace Finance Hub, a repository of knowledge and guidance for investors on peace finance.  This pitch will feature a special intervention from Nobel Peace Prize winner and current President of Timor-Lesté, José Ramos-Horta.

Join us for the launch of the new Sustainable Finance Geneva Map, an interactive tool showing the ecosystem of actors working on sustainable finance in Geneva.  This pitch will feature an intervention from Delphine Bachmann, State Councilor of Economy& Employment.

To build broad-based support and trust better data is needed. World LifeSpaces addresses this challenge, by providing global mapping of biomass, carbon sinks and dynamics, promote awareness in collaboration with organizations like UNESCO. Let’s scale carbon removal and conservation investment.

The purpose of the Environmental Innovation Awards is to promote the goals and values of ONE CREATION as an investor by supporting young companies in the early stages of their existence and to integrate them into a community.

First-hand evidence will be provided on biodiversity approaches and TNFD. This will be based on an assessment of 29 financial entities that had to disclose their biodiversity-related risks. What lessons can be learned to accelerate the Swiss intake?

This workshop will explain the rationale for utilizing green, social, and sustainability bonds and the process for issuing them. It will also explore Catastrophe risk financing and Outcome bonds, the latest of the World Bank in the impact investment area.

The financial sector realizes that the simple materiality approach is insufficient to protect against all risks and to achieve the SDGs. To counter ESG pitfalls, more and more investors are adopting impact assessment, based on the double materiality approach.