As Europe accelerates its green and digital transformation, a €2.5 trillion funding gap has been identified across key sectors – including buildings, energy, transport, digital, and green infrastructure – hindering progress towards climate and digital goals. This event explores investment opportunities, regulatory stability, and the role of private capital in driving sustainable growth. Experts will discuss strategies to de-risk and expand mid-cap assets, ensuring Europe’s long-term competitiveness.
This event will delve into the evolving landscape of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) regulations, exploring how these regulations, beyond mere compliance, could drive sustainable change. Attendees will gain insights into the latest developments in EU and Swiss CSR regulations, including the EU Omnibus Package and Swiss sustainability reporting requirements. The discussion will also assess how these laws and regulations can shape investor decision-making.
This panel explores how private investors perceive debt-for-nature swaps (D4NS), highlighting key challenges and potential incentives. Experts discuss how credit enhancements, blended finance, and innovations like sustainability-linked bonds can scale D4NS, aligning profitability with debt relief and conservation impact.
MDBs play a key role in mobilizing private capital for climate and biodiversity; their solutions can match the needs of private and institutional investors in Emerging and Developing Countries. This panel will discuss how MDBs have evolved their thinking around PCM. Innovative financial solutions will be showcased, such as foreign exchange hedging, Amazon bond ETF, debt-to-sustainability conversions and securitizations with proven track-record in supporting and scaling sustainable investments.
Explore how Swiss pension capital can drive impact and innovation through private markets. Despite Switzerland’s capital strength, allocations remain cautious. So why aren’t we scaling? This interactive discussion, organized by CFA Society Switzerland, brings together pioneering pension fund practitioners and bold initiatives including the Swiss Platform for Impact Investing (SPII) and Deep Tech Nation (DTN) to spotlight solutions, highlight emerging pathways, break silos, and unlock hidden potential. Join the discussion and let’s explore how bold ideas and institutional capital can align for greater impact – together.
As nature-related risks reshape financial decision-making, addressing these challenges and unlocking opportunities is key to companies’ long-term resilience. Join us for a live demo of the ENCORE tool and its latest updates, empowering business and finance to assess their reliance on nature and kick-start their nature resilience journey. Discover new solutions to better integrate nature into business strategies, explore links to UNFCCC COP 30, and help shape ENCORE’s future functionalities.
Buildings are responsible for a quarter of Switzerland’s CO2 emissions. On a global scale, growing physical risks are causing financial losses, prompting the financial and insurance industry to adapt its practices. At this event, we discuss with real estate specialists and investors, politicians and insurance representatives about existing and emerging risks as well as adapted frameworks globally and in Switzerland.
Wealth managers are often gatekeepers to capital. As demand for impact grows, many wealth holders are frustrated by the mismatch between their ambitions and what their advisors can deliver. In this session we:
– explore this mismatch through breakouts and a panel discussion
– shine a light, backed by recent research, on how wealth managers are adopting impact investing and impact considerations across their business models
– reveal what wealth holders should look for, when selecting a wealth manager
The session is based on new research by the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP): the “Investor’s Guide to Impact Wealth Management” which will launch soon.
This session showcases the first fixed income index to cover the whole fossil fuel chain, providing objective criteria needed to drive down real-world emissions through changing flows of capital. The session will inform participants about the index content and focus on the unique build process, held between academia, index provider and asset owners. An Open Space format will support participants to learn from this ‘systems demonstrator’ and apply it to their own collaborative solution-building.
What does it take to turn a bold idea into an investable impact venture? This session dives into the early stages of venture creation – from founder selection and venture studio models to the role of grantmakers, and early-stage investors. Panelists will explore what is needed to balance business and impact and how different actors help impact ventures become commercially viable. This conversation is for anyone serious about moving early-stage impact ventures from ideation to investability, especially in emerging markets.