BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:unctad.org BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6a72b89de87a7 DTSTART:20210128T080000Z SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE DTEND:20210128T170000Z LOCATION:Online\, SUMMARY:Beyond COVID-19: rebuilding SDG-aligned business and investment CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:A dynamic\, moderated roundtable of policymakers\, investors an d thought-leaders making recommendations to rebuild SDG-aligned business a nd investment beyond Covid-19 with a focus on accelerating emerging market impact at scale.\n\nThe focus of this UNCTAD WIF Satellite Event will be how to scale up impact and sustainability-aligned investment into emerging and frontier markets post Covid-19. The event will feature examples of br eak-through impact investing projects\, including innovative business mode ls where private and public capital is fusing to drive social purpose\, dr awn from\, amongst others\, Brazil\, Kenya\, India\, Nigeria\, and South A frica.\n\nClear recommendations will be delivered directly by the WIF Sate llite Event Panel. The recommendations follow a six-month global discussio n exploring what the best practice business and investment approach has be en to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 and also to paint a vision for busi ness/investment action beyond the Pandemic.\n\nIssues to be addressed:\n\n Getting the blend right: Post Covid-19 mobilizing blended finance towards businesses and projects that are replicable\, scalable\, and can achieve the UN SDG objectives of localization based on robust governance and colla boration along the whole investment chain. Good practice examples of SDG 1 7 “Partnerships” will be presented.\n\nSystemizing impact: Post Covid -19 we have an opportunity to escape the “project by project” mentalit y to forge new pathways that systemize and accelerate impactful business m odels\, social purpose as well as fully commercial\, to scale. Align inves table impact models and businesses with the SDGs and make them fit for pur pose for larger asset owner investment appetites (institutional\, family o ffice and sovereign wealth funds).\n\nESG and the law: The headline resul ts of a global survey exploring how 50 of the world’s leading legal comp anies are re-inventing their approach to ESG (environmental\, social\, gov ernance) to speed better business and investment decisions will be unveile d during the Panels.\n\nReinventing private-public collaboration: Post Co vid-19 how can we bring multilateral\, developmental and broader ODI publi c finance together with private families\, institutional asset owners and sovereign entities to deliver in the final decade on the promise of the SD Gs?\n\n \n\n*The event is being held in two sessions to take into account different time zones.\n\n \n<\;p>\;A dynamic\, moderated roundtable of policymakers\, investors and thought-leaders making recommendations to rebuild SDG-aligned business and investment beyond Covid-19 with a focus o n accelerating emerging market impact at scale.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\; The focus of this UNCTAD WIF Satellite Event will be how to scale up impac t and sustainability-aligned investment into emerging and frontier markets post Covid-19. The event will feature examples of break-through impact in vesting projects\, including innovative business models where private and public capital is fusing to drive social purpose\, drawn from\, amongst ot hers\, Brazil\, Kenya\, India\, Nigeria\, and South Africa.<\;/p>\;\n\ n<\;p>\;Clear recommendations will be delivered directly by the WIF Sa tellite Event Panel. The recommendations follow a six-month global discuss ion exploring what the best practice business and investment approach has been to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19 and also to paint a vision for bu siness/investment action beyond the Pandemic.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;&l t\;strong>\;I<\;/strong>\;<\;strong>\;ssues to be addressed:<\ ;/strong>\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;<\;strong>\;Getting the blend right:&\;nbsp\;<\;/strong>\;Post Covid-19 mobilizing blended financ e towards businesses and projects that are replicable\, scalable\, and can achieve the UN SDG objectives of localization based on robust governance and collaboration along the whole investment chain. Good practice examples of SDG 17 “Partnerships” will be presented.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\ ;<\;strong>\;Systemizing impact:&\;nbsp\;<\;/strong>\;Post Covi d-19 we have an opportunity to escape the “project by project” mentali ty to forge new pathways that systemize and accelerate impactful business models\, social purpose as well as fully commercial\, to scale. Align inve stable impact models and businesses with the SDGs and make them fit for pu rpose for larger asset owner investment appetites (institutional\, family office and sovereign wealth funds).<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;<\;strong& gt\;ESG and the law:&\;nbsp\;<\;/strong>\;The headline results of a global survey exploring how 50 of the world’s leading legal companies a re re-inventing their approach to ESG (environmental\, social\, governance ) to speed better business and investment decisions will be unveiled durin g the Panels.<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;<\;strong>\;Reinventing privat e-public collaboration:<\;/strong>\;&\;nbsp\;Post Covid-19 how can we bring multilateral\, developmental and broader ODI public finance toget her with private families\, institutional asset owners and sovereign entit ies to deliver in the final decade on the promise of the SDGs?<\;/p>\; \n\n<\;p>\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n<\;p>\;*The event is being held in two sessions to take into account different time zones.<\;/p>\ ;\n\n<\;p>\;&\;nbsp\;<\;/p>\;\n\n\nView meeting on unctad.org\n https://unctad.org/meeting/beyond-covid-19-rebuilding-sdg-aligned-business -and-investment DTSTAMP:20260805T041421Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR