For our 4th GLIS webinar, we have invited fund managers who apply strategies with a gender lens, like Sweef Capital and WaterEquity. Join us on this session to learn more about their impact strategies and how they can foster gender equality.
The GLIS has invited EDGE Certified, to present their leading global assessment methodology and business certification standard for gender and inter-sectional equity. During our session, we will also count on the participation of major financial institutions who are already certified by EDGE, to share their experiences and paths on becoming certifiers.
The path to sustainable finance is no longer a utopian dream. Sustainable finance has become a megatrend, and the banking sector has an important role to play in redirecting capital flows and financing the green deal. The Swiss financial center recognized early the direction of travel and has already started to realign itself with regard to the challenges we are all facing. This is demonstrated by the impressive number of sustainable finance initiatives from Swiss industry players. Nevertheless, we are only at the beginning of what will be a far-reaching transformation, and various regulatory and procedural hurdles still need to be overcome. Together with Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF) and the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), the Swiss Finance Institute is holding a high-profile conference on October 27, 2021 in Zurich with the aim of examining the challenges, the enormous growth potential, and the viable solutions that go hand in hand with the establishment of a sustainably oriented financial sector.
This event is taking place twice, once in Geneva in French on the 5 November 2021 and once in Zürich in German on the 12 November 2021. The event will cover various developments within the field of sustainable finance education in Switzerland, will allow SSF to present its new website and relevant publications, will include a roundtable discussing sustainable finance education in Switzerland and will present a case study from the British context. Follow the link below for a full program.
This event is taking place twice, once in Geneva in French on the 5 November 2021 and once in Zürich in German on the 12 November 2021. The event will cover various developments within the field of sustainable finance education in Switzerland, will allow SSF to present its new website and relevant publications, will include a roundtable discussing sustainable finance education in Switzerland and will present a case study from the British context. Follow the link below for a full program.
Measuring the social dimension of sustainable finance is often cited as one of the main challenges to advance the inclusion of social aspects in financing. This session will investigate the claim and examine what´s out there in terms of tools and initiatives to measure the “S”, including looking at how the EU taxonomy approaches this issue.
Experimentation is a key ingredient to innovative finance, but this often clashes with traditional portfolio construction and risk/return considerations faced by mainstream investors – both private and institutional. This session will discuss the various bottlenecks and challenges preventing capital from flowing at scale towards the companies, entrepreneurs and projects that need it and explore current best practices and solutions that could close the mismatch.
A key-note will kick off the panel discussion of experts that will highlight current best practices and emerging real world solutions, we will then engage the audience in dialogue about what it will take to scale the most promising solutions.
SAVE THE DATE:
The Geneva School of Economics and Management, Open Geneva & UNIGE Career Services Center are organizing the 3rd edition of the Sustainable Finance Hackathon, a unique creative problem-solving moment from November 26, 2021, 12PM till November 27, 2021, 2PM. Over 24 hours, it brings together some of the brightest minds from universities, international organizations, and the private sector to solve non-trivial sustainable finance problems such as:
– Up-skilling and career development for sustainable finance
– Technologies for transparency and accountability
– Earth observation and data science
– Business and human rights
– Behavioral economics and nudging
– Measuring environmental impacts on investments
More info: https://www.unige.ch/gsem/en/hackathons/sustainable-finance-2021/
The first Tuesday of each month the organizers of Building Bridges hold a call for the community to connect and exchange. This one-hour call provides a rapid fire of information about what is happening in Switzerland and beyond. We follow the same format every month:
– Updates on Building Bridges 2021 planning efforts
– Highlight Community events and initiatives
– Open mic for individuals to share new projects, initiatives or ideas they are working on
To receive the calendar requests for these calls, complete the Engage sign-up form on the Building Bridges Community page.
The UNCTAD World Investment Forum is the pre-eminent global platform for investment and development. The Forum devises strategies and solutions for global investment and development challenges. It facilitates multi-stakeholder collective action to stimulate investment in development. The Forum offers a unique opportunity to influence investment-related policymaking, shape the global investment environment, and to network with global leaders in business and politics.
The Forum biennually gathers more than 5,000 investment stakeholders from 160 countries. The stakeholder landscape encompasses high-level participants from the global investment community, including Heads of State and Government, ministers, executives of global companies and stock exchanges, sovereign wealth fund managers, investment treaty negotiators, heads of investment promotion agencies, international investment location experts, heads of international organizations, parliamentarians, civil society representatives, eminent scholars, and the international media.
For more information: https://worldinvestmentforum.unctad.org/#/ms-1/1
Registration for the online event: https://indico.un.org/event/1000241/