This is part two 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.
While the EU Taxonomy offers a useful compass to assess whether economic activities are green, it says little about the shape and speed of the transition to a green economy. This session unpacks how portfolio alignment methods address this shortcoming and allow to invest in the green transition with foresight.
Sustainable finance has largely focused on environmental sustainability and integrating human rights is still new for many institutions. In this session, members of the Thun Group will share how they are understanding finance and human rights, and how their own institutions are integrating human rights in their core business practices.
Nature-positive finance requires a better understanding of financial and environmental materiality. This session highlights cutting-edge tools that allow the finance sector to identify and manage their biodiversity risks and impacts. Discuss and learn how to take immediate action in transitioning to a nature-positive future.
This session will deep-dive into how to conceive and structure innovative financial solutions and at fostering the SDGs. This requires looking at the needs of social entrepreneurs and NGOs, and at ways to catalyze the increasingly available means to satisfy these needs, including the potential of Impact Bonds and tax incentives.
Institutional investors have the potential to mobilize large-scale capital and are demonstrating growing interest in contributing to positive and intentional real-world changes, including the SDGs. This session will introduce impact investing as a means for achieving this and showcase how institutional investors can develop and implement an impact investing strategy.
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The ocean economy is the world’s 7th largest and has a critical role in mitigating climate breakdown, but it attracts only 3.5% of overall SDG investment. Join key stakeholders to build a collective view and action plan on how to address this opportunity; and generate lessons for other underinvested SDGs.
The latest UN IPCC report warns there is no time to be wasted in taking climate action. What options and investment strategies are available to investors? Based on BlueOrchard’s 20 years of experience in impact investing, this event will show investors the breadth of opportunities in public and private markets.
The event aims to create a broad discussion on the topic of sustainability and retail banking by analyzing the key gaps and barriers to further the sustainability transformation of the Swiss retail banking sector as well as current best practices and way forward.
The global food system is the main driver of the ecological and climate transgression pushing natural systems beyond the boundaries of a safe operating space for humanity. But today, there is a huge opportunity to invest in innovative and disruptive nature-positive businesses.
In the first part of the session, our panel, consisting of experts on food system transformation and finance professionals with innovative investment solutions, will explore the role finance can play to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable food value chain.
The second part of the session will be more interactive based where participants will be able to exchange with various entrepreneurs that will present their new and innovative technologies.