This panel, consisting of regulators and financial market participants, will discuss the latest developments in the area of sustainability reporting resulting from the introduction of the Sustainable Finance Regulation in the EU. It will also ask Swiss regulators to weigh in on how sustainability-related disclosures will impact Switzerland.
Despite established and growing interest in sustainable investment, investors have concerns and difficulties finding suitable investment vehicles that transparently measure, monitor, and report proof of impacts. This event will present innovative technology-based solutions by presenting two use-cases and engaging in debate with domain experts.
Showcasing opportunities for philanthropic money to be re-invested in impact investment, the event focuses on innovative examples of renowned foundations deploying catalytic capital based on impact-linked solutions. This roundtable will also discuss challenges and opportunities in scaling platforms and mobilizing more private capital.
The concept of impact investing – providing a social value alongside a financial return – has become an exponentially growing investment approach in the financial sector. This event will feature a panel followed by an interactive discussion with the audience on the various levers available to mainstream this investment approach.
This session will discuss new funding models incentivizing private sector investment in public health goals, including a new $100M African health impact fund. It will consider the opportunities/challenges presented by Covid-19, and how this can be an inflection point for private investment in global health.
This interactive event provides a unique opportunity for Geneva’s finance community to learn from leading health experts from the UN, the private sector, investors and entrepreneurs, who will be addressing some of the key barriers and opportunities for financing and scaling health innovations in developing and emerging markets, and explore new innovative financing models and cross sector-partnerships for SDG3.
How much does true change cost? Who is best placed to invest? What are the win-wins and trade-offs? Economics of Impact is an emerging practice by which purpose-led companies are answering these questions, pushing the Impact Measurement and Management frontier. This session will engage in dialogue around recent innovations.
This session of the SFG Gender Lens Initiative for Switzerland (GLIS) will showcase the latest news, trends and standards of Gender Lens Investing and SDG5, feature GLI products across different asset classes, and share GLIS results from its first year of activity in 2021 and its plans for 2022.
This is part one of a two-part workshop that will address the challenge of measuring the social dimension of sustainable finance and propose ways forward for the community to strengthen data design, collection, and usage for measuring the social impact of investments.
This session will showcase various financial innovations for humanitarian purposes, drawing across the capital spectrum: grants, impact bonds, debt and private equity funds. Presented by leading institutions, half of the solutions have already been launched, and half are in development, providing different engagement opportunities for donors and investors.