Invitation to SSF Annual Conference 2026: Innovating for a Sustainable Future
At this year’s Annual Conference, we explore how innovation drives sustainable solutions. Experts advancing to the next frontier of innovation will share insights into their work and demonstrate how artificial intelligence is being used to tackle some of society’s most complex challenges. The programme also features prominent leaders from companies advancing efficient agriculture and reducing pollutants, highlighting practical approaches to sustainability.
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SSF Newsletter April: Tectonic Shifts
Romain Leroy-Castillo, Director Education & AI at SSF, is commencing the newsletter with his thoughts on recent geopolitical frictions undermining the global financial system. We then present a wide range of events we organized and participated in and share a selection of news of the past couple of weeks. Finally, we invite you to check out the countless events that are coming up, not only during the Climate Week Zurich.
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SSF Spotlight: Targeted Impact Measurement as a Prerequisite for Effective Impact Investing
How can players in this field measure their impact as accurately as possible? What role do data providers play? The latest spotlight highlights the challenges investors face when they want to measure and document their impact, presents practical solutions, and makes recommendations on how frameworks, digital tools, and collaborative approaches can be used to report quantitative and qualitative performance indicators.
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SSF Spotlight: How Artificial Intelligence Contributes to Effective Sustainable Finance
This paper explores the potential applications of AI to support sustainable finance, along a "data-to-decision" workflow with five stages: collecting data, ensuring its quality, extracting insights, anticipating future outcomes, and drafting content to communicate results. Within each step, this paper highlights real-life use cases as illustrative examples.
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Launch of Swiss Impact Investing Map
SPII conducted their first SPII Community Webinar. The purpose of the series is to create a networking space, discuss the latest developments in the impact investing ecosystem, and present recent updates from the SPII. On the same day, the SPII website went live, serving as an information hub. At the centre of attention was the newly introduced Swiss Impact Investing Map, created by SFG and iGravity with support from SECO.
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Investment Opportunities in Carbon Markets
On 26 August, SSF, together with McKinsey and SIX, hosted a high-level conference on carbon markets. The event highlighted how Switzerland’s innovative negative-emission technologies are opening new investment opportunities and driving the transition to a sustainable economy. Leading voices explored themes such as innovation in carbon markets, ensuring credibility, and positioning carbon markets as a growing investment opportunity.
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