Explore the transformative role of banking as it relates to environmental challenges and climate change…

Environmental challenges and climate change are the underlying conditions and indirect cause of everything we have been talking about at the Summit thus far. Values-based banks have played a fundamental role in the early awareness of and investments in support of the energy transition. All indications suggest that a massive investment push will be needed to meet the goals of the Paris Accord and provide new pathways to sustain life on Earth. We have reached a massive turning point where a range of institutional actors have stepped in yet there still needs to be a wide spectrum of investments to translate years of promises into urgent action.

In our final plenary session of the Summit, we will describe the imperatives and design the ways that financial institutions can be a catalyst for a new coalition of action and thereby focus their efforts and resources. And in these final Design exChange Sessions of the Summit, we will put all-hands-on-deck for Mother Earth.

Keynote: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Author and Activist; Moderator: Justina Alders-Sheya, Fund Manager, SFRE; Panelists: Jules Kortenhorst, Chief Executive Officer of Rocky Mountain Institute; Paul Thomas, President & CEO, ESAF Small Finance Bank; Stewart Wallis, Executive Chairman, WE All (Well-Being Economy Alliance); Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President the Club of Rome & ClimateKIC, Advisory Board