Themes: Sustainable Finance
Climate & Nature Well-being Sustainable Finance
A Tale of Two Countries: An Asian Approach to the Well-being of Nations
16 Sep 2025, 12:00:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
As societies grapple with complex social, environmental, and economic challenges, there is growing interest in models that centre holistic well-being. This session presents a pioneering case study from the Well-being and EESG Alliance (WEGA), exploring how China and Singapore—two nations with distinct histories, cultures, and governance systems—are forging innovative pathways to align national development with both human and planetary flourishing.
Well-being Sustainable Finance
Impact Measurement Reclaimed: From Compliance to Agency, Technology, and System Change
18 Sep 2025, 11:00:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
In a world dominated by dashboards and compliance, impact measurement risks becoming a hollow exercise—focused on accountability rather than transformation. While environmental metrics have advanced, social and human indicators remain fragmented and disempowering, often serving funders more than communities. Measurement tends to overlook what truly drives change: relationships, trust, and collaborative systems.
This session challenges the idea that more data equals more progress.
Sustainable Finance Corporate Philanthropy Partnerships
From Isolation to Integration: Funding the Infrastructure of Systems Change
17 Sep 2025, 14:30:00 - 17:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 4 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
In a world facing deepening social, ecological, and economic disruption, transformation is no longer a choice—it is a necessity. Yet while impact capital continues to grow, the kind of capital needed to drive systems-level change remains scarce. Too often, brilliant ideas fail to scale because the infrastructure that enables lasting collaboration and integration—the “connective tissue” of change—is underfunded and overlooked.
This session, co-hosted with Catalyst Now and anchored by the 99 for Humanity initiative, explores how we can reimagine capital as a force for coherence rather than fragmentation.
Energy Transition Sustainable Finance
Powering People: Financing a Just Energy Transition for Communities
17 Sep 2025, 10:15:00 - 11:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 3 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If your energy transition leaves people behind, it’s not a transition—it’s an extraction. Are we bold enough to power dignity and decarbonisation together?
The energy transition isn’t only a carbon story—it’s a human one. In Asia and across emerging economies, millions still live without reliable, affordable, or clean energy. Meanwhile, communities whose livelihoods depend on fossil fuel industries face disruption, displacement, and uncertainty.
Climate & Nature Sustainable Finance Nature Restoration
Roots of Resilience: Financing Mangroves for Climate and Community Impact
17 Sep 2025, 15:45:00 - 17:00:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Lab 1 (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If mangroves protect us from the storm, why aren’t we protecting them with our capital? Can we finally finance nature as infrastructure—not charity?
Mangrove forests are a vital yet overlooked asset in Asia’s fight against climate change and coastal vulnerability. From absorbing carbon to shielding coastlines and sustaining millions of livelihoods, mangroves offer triple wins for climate, biodiversity, and communities. But to scale mangrove restoration, we need more than conservation—we need capital, community partnerships, and a new financing model.
Climate & Nature Sustainable Finance
Financing the Blue Shift: From Pledges to Regenerative Capital
17 Sep 2025, 14:00:00 - 15:15:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If finance doesn’t flow like the ocean—layered, interconnected, and regenerative—it won’t sustain what sustains us. Can we place those who live and work with the sea at the helm of ocean finance?
The ocean sustains all life on Earth — regulating our climate, feeding billions, and anchoring the entire economies of – yet it remains one of the most under-capitalised frontiers. In 2023, just $25 billion was invested in the blue economy—far short of the $175 billion needed annually to protect and regenerate this vast ecosystem.
Human Construct Sustainable Finance
The Next Horizon of Social Innovation
17 Sep 2025, 11:30:00 - 12:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If social innovation depends on extraction to survive, is it really innovation? What if every solution seeded dignity and scaled itself?
As investment paradigms shift to serve a well-being economy, so too must our vision of social innovation. No longer can social initiatives be confined to short-term impact or charitable models.
Climate & Nature Circular Economy Sustainable Finance
Capital at the Crossroads: Financing What the Future Needs
17 Sep 2025, 10:30:00 - 11:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
Capital builds futures—but whose future, and at what cost? The well-being economy won’t emerge from better spreadsheets—it will emerge when capital dares to serve life, not just returns.
Money doesn’t just fund the future—it shapes it. In today’s economic system, capital is the first mover. It sets the tone for what grows, what stalls, and what never gets the chance to begin.
Well-being Sustainable Finance Partnerships
From Capital Stack to Impact Architecture: Rewiring the Capital Supply Chain and Blended Finance
17 Sep 2025, 09:30:00 - 10:30:00 (GMT+8:00)
Impact Forum (Level 4 Suntec Convention Centre)
If finance is the bloodstream of society, why does it still flow in silos? Are we bold enough to architect a capital system that nourishes the entire body of the well-being economy?
In the well-being economy, finance is the first system we must rewire. Today’s fragmented capital flows—philanthropy, public grants, venture funding, and institutional investment—are ill-equipped to scale the integrated solutions our world demands.
