UNEP FI Global Roundtable 2026 – Agenda

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

This session highlights the joint efforts of Brazil’s banking, capital markets, and insurance sectors in advancing a net-zero, nature-positive transition. Set in the context of COP30 to COP31, it invites financial institutions to lead in scaling finance, investment, and insurance to close the global finance gap.

• Amaury Oliva, Executive Director of Sustainability, Financial Citizenship, Consumer Relations, and Self-Regulation, Febraban
• Cacá Takahashi, Chairman, BlackRock Brazil
• Dyogo Oliveira, President, CNseg

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.

• André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 President

Panel: Financing and risk instruments for investable climate solutions

This session examines how the financial and insurance sectors are moving from climate commitments to bankable, scalable, and risk-adjusted solutions.

• Fabiana Costa, Senior Sustainability Manager, Banco Bradesco
• Luciana Costa, Director of Infrastructure, Energy Transition and Climate Change, BNDES
• Tamsin Ballard, Chief Investor Initiatives Officer, PRI
• Moderator: Alex Michie, CEO, Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC) and Managing Director and Global Head of Strategy and Networks, GFANZ

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

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.

• Daphne Breyer, Head of Sustainability, BB Asset Management
• Maurício Masferrer, Managing Director, Allianz Commercial Brazil
• Moderator: Claudia Prates, Director of Sustainability, CNseg

Coffee break

Fireside chat: How capital, credit, and risk transfer instruments can unlock scale – The Eco Invest case

This session explores how Eco Invest leverages catalytic capital and blended finance to de-risk investments and mobilize private capital for bioeconomy and land restoration.

• João Adrien, Head of ESG Agro, Itaú BBA
• Mario Gouvea de Almeida, Eco Invest Program Coordinator, National Treasury of Brazil
• Moderator: Amaury Oliva, Executive Director of Sustainability, Financial Citizenship, Consumer Relations, and Self-Regulation, Febraban

Panel: Moving from investment to impact

This session highlights practical solutions to mobilise private capital at scale, focusing on catalytic and de-risking instruments, what is working in practice, and how to accelerate their adoption across markets.

• Antoni Ballabriga, Global Head of Sustainability Intelligence & Advocacy, BBVA
• Kristy Graham, CEO, Australian Sustainable Finance Institute (ASFI)
• Matt Kaczmarek, Managing Director, Head of Emerging Market Credit Strategy for Global Infrastructure Partners, BlackRock
• Moderator: Cacá Takahashi, Chairman, BlackRock Brazil

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

Closing remarks

Lunch