The Blue Peace Financing Initiative understands that sustainable water basin management requires integrated financial mechanisms that encompass multiple national and local jurisdictions. Joint custodianship builds peace, attracts finance and stimulates transformative investments at both the regional and sub sovereign levels, e.g. through Blue Peace Bonds. This will be the main focus of this session.
Engagement is one of the most useful tools for investors to reach their Net Zero objectives. Contrary to divestment, it allows not only to decarbonize their portfolio but also to contribute to the decarbonization of the real economy. The objective will be to explain and discuss engagement through concrete examples.
The need for a Just Transition – combining climate action with social impact and community empowerment – is increasingly recognized by investors, businesses and policy makers. This session will showcase how financial institutions can adopt a Just Transition approach in their investments, based on best practices and insights from pioneering organisations.
Solving the SDGs and the climate crisis requires systems thinking and collaboration on scale breaking down the silos of development. The financial opportunities that come with aggregation are in both the cost structure and the ability to inject financial innovation beyond the VC and Blended Value model. A new economy model with five capital sources measured in Billions to Trillions.
The situation in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions on financial assets have laid bare how intertwined finance is with conflict. This session will explore models for peace finance in public markets (including active ownership and ethical divestment) and in impact investing (including innovative and early-stage finance).
This session will bring together different actors from the Latin American investment ecosystem to discuss ongoing efforts to expand and ensure the integrity of sustainable finance in the Latin America and Caribbean region, including the adoption of innovative financial instruments, and emerging public-private sector partnerships.
This session will illustrate the rising opportunities in Africa to redirect investments to the SDGs in this critical stage of the development trajectory. It brings together policy makers, investors and enterprises, to provide insights on efforts and partnerships to mobilize public and private investment to effect change for sustainable development.
How can emerging market and developing economies promote climate adaptation and build resilience? The event will look at what investments are needed, how public and private finance can be mobilized, policies and tools that have reduced vulnerability and boosted resilience, and how data can be utilized by decisionmakers.
Deploying private capital at scale to SDGs requires joint effort from assets owners (family offices), the intermediaries (funds) and the ventures (solutions). The current mechanism is flawed. Despite explosive demand the ventures, funds and projects are still struggling to get funded by private capital. Session surfaces the hidden dynamics behind.
Finance is accelerating the destruction of ecosystems, accumulating wealth where it is not needed, and ignoring the consequences of the tragedies it creates. This participatory session will open with questions, to be discussed with speakers and the public. How do we put finance at the service of equitable wellbeing within a healthy biosphere?
