Building Bridges

📅 29 November – 02 December 2021
      Hybrid- Online/ Geneva

Building Bridges is a joint initiative, launched in 2019 by Swiss public authorities, the finance community, the United Nations, and other international partners to accelerate the transition to a global economic model aligned with the SDGs.

At the core of the initiative is the recognition that the scale and complexity of the transition require “building bridges” between multiple stakeholders in the finance, government, and international development communities.

The first edition of Building Bridges took place in October 2019 in Geneva

This event will launch a week of diverse events that will advance important conversations on sustainable and impact finance. Most importantly, Building Bridges will showcase concrete commitments, initiatives and action that make finance a key catalyst for change.

Building Bridges is open to the entire sustainable development and finance community, in Switzerland and around the globe.

Participants will notably, but not exclusively, comprise representatives from:

• Financial sector including asset owners
• Governmental authorities and decision-makers
• International development community and institutions
• Companies in the real economy, including entrepreneurs and start-ups
• NGOs and the civil society constituencies including youth

The 2021 themes represent urgent challenges to advancing sustainable finance and thus are key levers for unlocking opportunities.

Impact and Transparency

With more sustainable financial products on the market than ever, this theme dives into the evolving frameworks and regulations that classify and standardize financial products and prevent green- or impact- washing. It will also explore issues related to data availability, measurability, comparability, and quality.

Supply Demand Mismatch

This theme will tackle the multitude of factors that currently prevent capital from flowing to where it is needed most, and that block the connection between investors looking for sustainable products and the companies, entrepreneurs, and projects looking for capital.

Fintech for SDGs

This theme will explore the potential of fintech to accelerate sustainable finance by showcasing solutions that support sustainability, including financial technologies that advance certain SDGs, technological tools that improve transparency and impact measurement, and technology itself as a financing instrument.

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