Time: 18:00 – 20:30 CET

Location: Restaurant de la Plage (75 Quai Gustave-Ador)

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SFG is hosting a joint event with the Global Impact Investing Network at our SFG office to better understand impact investing applications in listed equites. We hope to see you there!

When ? Thursday, June 13th 2024, 17h30-19h30

Where ? SFG Office, 50 Avenue de la Praille, 1227 Carouge

Please RSVP here

About the event

About Sean Gilbert

Sean Gilbert is the Chief Investor Network Officer at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), overseeing membership. Before this role, he led the NDC Partnership at the World Resources Institute, supporting countries in meeting climate and development goals. With over twenty years of experience in sustainability within the private sector and non-profits, Sean has previously directed Sustainability Advisory Services at KPMG in China, co-drafted a green finance reform report for China, and played a key role in developing the widely used sustainability reporting standards at the Global Reporting Initiative. He began his career as a market research consultant in Asia for the chemical and environmental technology sectors.

About GIIN 

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Date: Wednesday, March 13,  2024

Time: 18:00 – 20:30 CET

Location: La Distillerie Bar | Lab, 77 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, Genève, Switzerland

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Within the sustainable finance community, many practitioners aspire to drive environmental and social change in both their professional and personal contexts. In a complex and constantly changing world, that is a demanding task. In our lives, work and our communities, we find ourselves facing challenges that can leave us feeling stuck and hamper us from bringing the changes we wish to see. While there are no straightforward solutions, paying attention to our relationships with one another and being curious about the underlying patterns that connect our issues, both the seen and the unseen, is vital in creating the conditions for a healthier future for all of us, indeed in priming the system for change.

To explore these perspectives, SFG invites you to participate in an interactive conversation format following the Warm Data Lab (WDL) practice established by Nora Bateson. These experiences have been described as a “kaleidoscope of conversation”, packed with enriching stories, laughter, and insight. They nourish the soul, transform the way we approach work, life, and our communities, and ultimately, create space for new relationships to flourish.

When: Thursday, March 7, 2024, 17:30-19:30

Where: SFG Office

Who: Everyone is welcome, from all ages and backgrounds, and we encourage you to bring a colleague, friend, or family member. Participation is not dependent on knowledge or skill. WDLs are an open forum for learning and discovery. Participants are invited to step out of the familiar labels and scripts such as CEO, service user, and employee, delving into mutual learning and the intricate complexity of their identities.

Why:

• Connection: Connect with people who care about the planet and society in a format that is conducive to meaningful interactions.
• Exploration: Explore multiple issues in a way that helps reveal how they are related.
• Inspiration: Be inspired by engaging stories, ideas, and surprises that create fertile grounds for change.

Please RSVP here if you intend to join and let us know whether you will be accompanied.

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Date: 31/11/2023

Time: 11:00 – 12:30

Location: Room C1, Maison de la Paix

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Time: 18:00 – 20:30 CET

Location: Etna Sky Lounge, 20 Quai du Seujet 1201 Genève Switzerland

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Time: 8:30-10am (coffee served from 8:30-9am, presentation starts at 9am sharp)

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      Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 17h
      Palais Eynard – Rue de la Croix-Rouge 4, 1204 Genève

17h00 // WELCOME 

17h30 // GENERAL ASSEMBLY

For SFG Members

18h00 //  DEBATE – THE VALUE OF NATURE
Climate risks are increasingly well-integrated into financial analysis and are top of mind for decision-makers globally. However, we will not solve the climate crisis without preserving and regenerating nature. The loss of  natural ecosystems will also have a material impact on portfolios through the companies and countries in which we invest. Right here in Geneva, climate change is impacting our local environment as well.

It is urgent that we understand this challenge, its implications and how we can tackle it urgently and intelligently.

Speakers:

• Amandine Favier, Head of Sustainable Finance, WWF Switzerland
• Jean-Gabriel Brunet, Head of the Green Spaces Department, Ville de Genève
• Fiona Frick, Managing Director, Circe Invest
• Sandrine Salerno, Director of SFG (Moderator)

Opening Comments by:

•  Marie-Laure Schaufelberger, President of SFG
• Alfonso Gomez, Administrative Councillor, Ville de Genève

19h00 //  COCKTAIL

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Time: 8:30-10am (coffee served from 8:30-9am, presentation starts at 9am sharp)

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As the world continues to struggle to find swift and meaningful solutions to tackle the triple crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and unsustainable development, the role of nature markets is receiving increased global attention. Trying to protect nature by putting a price tag on it is akin to ‘fighting fire with fire’, but many see this as an opportunity to develop high-integrity business activities, markets, and economies. By channelling investment into nature-positive markets we can better protect, invest in, and regenerate nature.

Join another Ideas for Breakfast session featuring two experts from NatureFinance to hear about opportunities and challenges to delivering on the potential upsides of nature markets. The Taskforce on Nature Markets has valued nature markets globally at nearly US$10 trillion.  The Taskforce has identified governance as the underlying ingredient that will determine the failure or success of existing and emerging nature markets – in terms of timely scale, price and impact on people and ecosystems. One topic area will be emerging biodiversity credit markets as an area of growing international interest. The second topic will cover the links between illegal nature markets and legal investment supply chains – a critical area for action given that nature crimes generate US$281 billion annually. 

About the Speakers

Dorothée Herr is a Senior Associate at NatureFinance and leads the work on biodiversity credit markets contributing to the broader work on building a better governance of nature markets. Dorothee was previously the Manager for Ocean and Climate Change for the Ocean Team at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), leading the IUCN’s international policy and private finance engagement on coastal and marine Nature-based Solutions. She has authored articles and reports on ocean acidification, Blue Carbon as well as on coastal and marine Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in the context of the UNFCCC, CBD and other international policy fora. Dorothee developed, with a team of financial experts, the Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility (BNCFF) and the Blue Carbon Accelerator Fund (BCAF) and co-developed the Subnational Climate Fund (SCF) and its Technical Assistance Facility, funded by the Green Climate Fund. She received her masters degree in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University, UK and her diploma in Geography from the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

Mark Halle is a Senior Advisor at NatureFinance. Mark grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, took his first degree from Tufts University in the US and a post-graduate degree in history from the University of Cambridge.  Following two years with the Diplomatic Secretariat of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) he has devoted his entire career to environment and sustainable development, beginning with five years in the United Nations Environment Programme’s Policy Planning Division.  He then spent four years in WWF-International’s Conservation Division, with responsibility for building its programmes in China and as conservation officer attached to the WWF International President HRH The Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh.  There followed fourteen years at IUCN, first in the Conservation for Development Centre (integrated into IUCN as the Field Operations Division), then as Director of Development and, finally, as Director of Policy and Partnerships.  He left IUCN to establish the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Europe) which he directed until retirement in 2016 and where he remains a Senior Fellow. Mark was a Senior Advisor to the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System for the four years of its mandate, taking special responsibility for developing countries.  He helped establish and is Senior Advisor to the international network of Financial Centres for Sustainability (FC4S), where he led on development of the FC4S programme for Africa and the emerging programme on biodiversity finance.  He is also a Principal of the Finance for Biodiversity initiative (F4B) in which position he has assisted in establishing NatureFinance in Geneva.  He is a co-founder of Better Nature, a partnership that focuses on nature narrative development. Mark is Chairman of the Board of TRAFFIC International, the world’s leading wildlife trade organization.  He sits on the board of Sustainable Finance Geneva.  Mark writes and lectures on the subject of sustainable development.  He is a founder of the Geneva 2030 Ecosystem, a platform for dialogue and cooperation about the challenge of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals.

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