UNEP FI Global Roundtable 2026 – Agenda and Recordings

This interactive roundtable will convene up to 150 finance leaders, sustainability experts, and practitioners to explore how the financial sector can build resilience in the face of climate change, nature loss, and sustainability-driven risks. Through structured discussions and real-world examples, participants will identify challenges and showcase practical solutions—across strategy, investment and products—that strengthen resilience while supporting long-term growth.

This session will be held under Chatham House Rule, and priority is given to UNEP FI members and partners.

Discussions include:

• Scaling resilience in a changing environment
• Responding to nature-related risks to build resilience
• Strengthening societal resilience

Confirmed speakers:

• Fernanda Milne Jones Nader Garavini, Head, Amazon Fund, BNDES
• Gloria Zvaravanhu, Managing Director, Old Mutual Insurance Company and PSI Board Member
• Klaus Reisinger, Managing Partner (Austria), ClimatePartner
• Philip Lopokoiyit, CEO, ICEA LION Group
• Saori Takahashi, Manager, Sustainability Planning Department, Corporate Planning Division, The Norinchukin Bank
• Thomas Viegas, Group Nature Lead, Aviva
• Vanessa Doger de Spéville, Head, Sustainability, Reputation & Engagement, Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB)
• Vijay Bains, Chief Sustainability Officer and Group Head ESG, Emirates NBD Bank

This interactive roundtable, held in collaboration with UN Global Compact, brings together up to 150 financial institutions and real-economy actors across various sectors to strengthen engagement on accelerating the transition to low-carbon, nature-positive and inclusive economies. Structured in two parts, the session enables banks, insurers and investors to discuss expectations, constraints, and emerging practices, while clients share their transition challenges, financing/underwriting needs, and practical solutions across supply chains.

This session will be held under Chatham House Rule, and priority is given to UNEP FI members and partners.

Discussions include:

• Real economy led discussions on the client’s perspectives, needs and solutions
• Finance sector led discussion on client engagement

Confirmed speakers:

• Devan Pillay, Global Segment President, Heavy Industries Industrial Automation, Schneider Electric
• Dominic Keyzer, Global Sustainability Lead, ING
• Gido van Graas, MD & Sector Head, Energy & Natural Resources, First Abu Dhabi Bank
• Juergen Esser, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Danone
• Koushik Chatterjee, Chief Financial Officer, Tata Steel
• Michele Gonzalez Mendia, Chief of Sustainable Finance & Partnerships, FSC Investments & Partnerships

This event brings together researchers, financial institutions, policymakers, and other sustainable finance stakeholders for a focused conversation on how to close the gap between academic research and real-world financial decision-making. Sustainable finance research has grown rapidly in recent years, but its findings do not always reach, or meaningfully influence, the decisions being made by banks, insurers, and other financial actors.

This interactive session will explore where the research-practice gap is most acute, why it persists, and what UNEP FI and its partners can do to address it. Through a lively fishbowl discussion and structured breakout sessions, participants will examine practical questions around data, tools, and attribution, risk analysis and management, performance and equity, and the implications of AI. The event is designed to support candid, two-way exchange and help shape a clearer, more useful research agenda for sustainable finance.

Agenda coming soon.

Welcome coffee and registration

Opening remarks

A joint welcome highlighting the collaborative efforts of the Brazilian banking, capital markets, and insurance sectors in driving the transition toward a net zero and nature-positive economy. This session happens in the context of the transition from COP 30 to COP 31. It’s also an invitation for financial institutions to take the lead to scale finance, investments, and insurance to close the finance gap and have global positive impact. 

• Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UNEP FI
• Dyogo Oliveira, President, CNseg
• Isaac Sidney, Executive President, FEBRABAN 
• Cacá Takahashi, Vice President and Coordinator of the Sustainability Network, ANBIMA
• Moderator: Maria Eugenia Sosa, Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager, UNEP FI

Keynote: From COP30 to COP31: Aligning finance and insurance for climate action

This keynote will outline the priorities of the COP30 Presidency and expectations for private finance, focusing on the role of banks, capital markets, and insurers in accelerating climate mitigation and adaptation.

• Ana Toni, CEO, COP30  

Panel 1: Financing and risk instruments for investable climate solutions

Examine how the financial and insurance sectors are advancing from global climate commitments to the structuring of bankable, scalable and risk-adjusted solutions.

• Tamsin Ballard, Chief Investor Initiatives Officer, PRI
• Güneş Gozen, Sustainable Finance Principal Manager, Garanti BBVA Fabiana Costa, Senior Sustainability Manager, Banco Bradesco
• Hilen Meirovich, Managing Director of Climate and Environment, IDB Invest 
• Leonardo Pereira, Head of Department, Directorate of Infrastructure, Energy Transition, and Climate Change, BNDES 
• Moderator: Alex Michie, CEO, Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC) and Managing Director and Global Head of Strategy and Networks, GFANZ

Keynote: CBD COP-17: The Financial Sector’s Role in Reversing Nature Loss  

This panel will explore how finance and insurance can support resilient, low-emissions agribusiness systems in Brazil and globally by helping producers, companies, and supply chains adapt, invest, and scale sustainably in response to growing climate and transition risks.

• Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 

Panel 2: Financing climate-smart agribusiness: Finance and insurance markets in action

As one of the world’s largest agricultural producers and the second-largest food exporter, Brazil plays a critical role in global food security. At the same time, increasing climate volatility and the transition to low-carbon production are reshaping risks and investment needs across agricultural value chains. This panel will examine how finance and insurance can support the development of resilient, low-emissions agribusiness systems – in Brazil and globally – by enabling producers, companies, and supply chains to adapt, invest, and scale sustainably.

• Nick Anstett, Vice-President and Chief Strategy Officer, FinDev Canada 
• Daphne Breyer, Head of Sustainability, BB Asset Management
• Casper Havinga, Investment Director, Agri3 Fund 
• Maurício Masferrer, Managing Director, Allianz Commercial Brazil
• Moderator: Claudia Prates, Director of Sustainability, CNseg

Coffee break

Dialogue: How Capital, Credit and Risk Transfer Instruments Can Unlock Scale – The Eco Invest case 

This high-level session explores how the EcoInvest program utilizes catalytic capital and blended finance to de-risk sustainable investments and mobilize private markets. By examining the integration of risk-sharing mechanisms and specialized insurance products, the discussion highlights how these instruments bridge the gap for large-scale projects in bioeconomy and land restoration.

• Luiz Alcoforado, Deputy Attorney General for Tax and Finance, Eco Invest – Brazil National Treasury
• João Adrien, Head of ESG for Agribusiness, Itaú BBA 
• Moderator: Amaury Oliva, Executive Director of Sustainability, Financial Citizenship, Consumer Relations and Self-Regulation, Febraban 

Panel 3: Moving from investment to impact

Highlighting practical solutions to mobilise private capital at scale, with a focus on catalytic and de-risking instruments. The discussion will explore how these tools are being applied in real-world contexts, what is working in practice, and what is needed to accelerate their adoption across markets.

• Pedro Farme, CEO, Guy Carpenter 
• Kristy Graham, CEO, Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI) 
• Toni Ballabriga, Global Head of Sustainability Intelligence & Advocacy, BBVA  
• Matt Kaczmarek, Managing Director, BlackRock 
• Moderator: Cacá Takahashi, Vice-President and Coordinator of the Sustainability Network, ANBIMA

Keynote: From Belem to Antalya

This session explores how the financial sector can support COP31’s vision of “Dialogue, Consensus, and Action.

• Kushla Munro, Executive Director, COP31, and Deputy Secretary, Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
• Halil Hasar, President of Climate Change at the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Republic of Türkiye 
• Özgür Obali, Secretary General, Türkiye Sigorta Birliği

Closing remarks

Maria Eugenia Sosa, Membership and Regional Co-ordination Manager, UNEP FI

Lunch