This event showcases how countries are driving capital to solutions for social and environmental challenges by presenting market-building initiatives led by National Advisory Boards for Impact Investing. It will present a CH roadmap for market acceleration through PPPs, informed by work that has been advanced in other countries.
BlueInvest-Asia (BIA) Platform will aggregate investment opportunities with impactful SMEs in Asia’s Blue Economy, with the support of Asian Development Bank, UNEP, UNDP and a consortium of financial institutions. Modeled after BlueInvest Europe, this supports SMEs to scale up solutions for developing countries on the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
A healthy early-stage venture ecosystem is essential to scale sustainable finance; but, today it remains fragmented. After twenty months, Impact Agora, an institutional marketplace for impact investing, shares lessons from building a fintech-enabled community of >100 leading impact players and opens a discussion on barriers/opportunities in the Swiss market.
The circular economy is not only a key part of the global solution to achieve the SDGs and restore the health of our ecosystems, but it also represents a trillion dollar economic opportunity globally. This event will gather businesses, entrepreneurs and investors showcasing innovative high-impact circular solutions and exploring innovative models for financing the transition to a circular economy.
Factory17 is a unique and inspiring public event for all Building Bridges participants featuring the courageous and personal stories of Geneva’s leading pioneers, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are part of accelerating the shift towards a sustainable and inclusive economy.
This event showcases the value creation of DHoTS, a unique sustainable solution using financial-services technology with best practices in Treasury and Risk Management to meet global requirements. It offers an integrated channel for a UN Financial Gateway with opportunities for connectivity to the global financial ecosystem in an inclusive, transparent, cost-effective, accountable, and secure way.
This roundtable will bring together five Swiss leaders driving investment and business as a force for good. They will discuss the importance of stakeholder governance, transparency and how to rethink investing to achieve the triple bottom line: prosperity, people and planet.
Alternative protein production and other new technologies related to the food and beverage value chain will be the key drivers to meet the food demand of the next generations, to solve global distribution problems and food waste as well as to achieve to global goals to reduce GHG emissions. This session will explore the future challenges of the food and beverage value chain, its technological evolution and arising investment opportunities.
As more countries link their national development planning to the SDGs, there is a role for the UN, governments, and investors to work together to build attractive SDG investment pipelines that address issues of risk and capital deployment at scale, this session will show how this can be done practically.
The EU has advanced its environmental taxonomy, but much work is still required for social. This panel will unpack the underlying challenges of social impact assessment and designing a social taxonomy. It will also discuss the often overlooked questions regarding how economic activities translate to social goods.