TNFD aims to create the transparency needed to align financial flows with biodiversity targets. In this session, we seek to present key elements of TNFD, discuss concrete implementation challenges, and debate how the initiative could be further promoted in Switzerland, notably by launching a respective national advisory group.

During this session, each speaker will focus on one part of their green journey and share their key lessons & take-aways. Here are the thematics that will be featured:

1. Identifying market opportunities: Share experience and differentiation;

2. Developing the right narratives & incentives: What methods has been used to choose the right narrative?;

3. Taking advantage of network / partnerships.

Spotlighting how activating national sanitation economies and social entrepreneurship can unlock catalytic investment as well as access to sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health. A quadrupling of progress is needed to achieve SDG6.2 on time. The session will cover innovative financing, market-based approaches in/beyond WASH to showcase how new finance can drive this vital acceleration and achieve lasting impact.

Gender Lens Investing (GLI) is crucial for sustainable finance, with a ripple effect across all SDGs. This session will showcase the latest research on GLI and its many benefits, and provide tools asset owners and managers can use to embed it in their own company policies and across their portfolios.

Calling for climate action and helping corporates and asset managers understand their exposure to physical climate risk and disclose in TCFD report. Practitioners will shed light on the preparedness of Swiss companies on TCFD disclosure and how to implement a physical climate risk management, scenario analysis and disclosure in an engaging, captivating interactive experience.

As part of Switzerland’s commitment to the net-zero targets, SBA considers net-zero initiatives to be effective instruments for achieving the 2050 climate target. Forward-looking methodologies like Implied Temperature Rise better address the transition with increasing complexity though. What is the right balance and most efficient way towards carbon neutrality? This session will try to address these issues.

Investor interest in commercially scalable health technologies that meet system gaps in emerging markets is growing exponentially. Technology advances are being harnessed by entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skills, networks to scale. The absorptive capacity in the health sector of low- and middle-income countries is immense. This session draws on frontline experiences of successful companies, active investors and multilateral development stakeholders.

The digitalization of existing processes and the development of new and digitally enabled ways of doing business, is one of the major trends in modern business. We’ll hear directly from tech startups from Africa & Asia providing digital tools to SMEs. We’ll explore the private equity and private debt investment opportunity and discuss the real impact for the SMEs.

This hands-on workshop will be focused on large language models, a powerful tool developed in Natural Language Processing, and its application to sustainable finance. We will present how to extract sentiment-related information from company ESG reports using open source data and tools and demonstrate its predictive power. Remote participation is possible.

Thanks to innovation, professionalization and the rise of sustainable finance, the relationship between banks and philanthropic organisations has strongly evolved over the past decade.

This workshop will discuss the major transformations that we observe from financing to funding to advising.