Topics: Financing the Living Planet

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Restore Nature Day: Re-designing the Economy for Living Systems

Wed 21 Jan 2026 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 2)

What if the defining challenge of this decade is not mobilising more capital for nature but redesigning economic systems to operate within nature’s limits while restoring what we have depleted?

Restore Nature Day opens with a fundamental reframe: nature is not a sector it is the living system that underwrites every economy, supply chain, and society. Yet today’s responses remain fragmented projects without platforms, capital without coherence, ambition without stewardship.

As climate and biodiversity crises accelerate, the question is no longer whether we act, but how we design systems capable of restoring nature at scale while sustaining livelihoods and prosperity. This opening moment sets the tone for the day by bridging science, stewardship, and capital grounding participants in planetary reality while pointing toward investable, governable pathways forward.

From the biophysical limits that define our operating space, to the place-based solutions already working across Asia and the Global South, the opening remarks invite leaders to move beyond extraction, offsets, and incrementalism. Restore Nature Day is an invitation to shift from fragmented action to coherent system design where capital, industry, philanthropy, and communities align to regenerate the living foundations of our shared future.

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Oceans Day: When the Ocean Becomes a Business Imperative

Wed 21 Jan 2026 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

What if the ocean is no longer a sustainability issue to manage, but the clearest signal of business risk—revealing which companies are prepared to align strategy, capital, and operations for a volatile future?

Sustainability is no longer a peripheral concern. It is increasingly shaping core business risk and strategic decision-making.

Across sectors, companies are navigating rising exposure to climate volatility, regulatory pressure, supply chain fragility, and changing expectations from investors and customers. In this context, the ocean has emerged as a clear lens through which these risks converge,not as a standalone issue, but as a reflection of broader systemic exposure.

Many companies have articulated sustainability and ocean-related commitments. Far fewer have translated this urgency into strategy, capital allocation, and operational change.

This public session explores how business leaders are responding as sustainability moves from aspiration to business imperative and what this shift requires in practice.

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Oceans Day: From the Living Ocean to a Living Economy

Wed 21 Jan 2026 10:30 am - 11:00 am (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

In a decade that will define the health of our planet, the future of the ocean has become a decisive test of our economic and governance systems. The panels here will explore how a well-being economy reframes ocean stewardship—from extraction to regeneration—by aligning capital, policy, science, and community leadership. Moving beyond fragmented projects, it highlights how trust-based collaboration and nature-positive investment models can restore marine ecosystems while sustaining livelihoods, resilience, and long-term prosperity.

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Oceans Day Panel 4: Accelerating Africa Trade and Investment through Vibrant Maritime Economies and Supply Chains

Wed 21 Jan 2026 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

How do we ensure that innovation serves ecosystems and communities — not just markets? What stands in the way of scaling regenerative ocean solutions: capital, incentives, or mindsets?

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Impact Endgames: How to Support the Next Generation of Impact Unicorns Globally

Wed 21 Jan 2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 2)

What if the true test of social innovation is not proof of impact, but its ability to cross borders—surviving translation into new cultures, institutions, and policies while scaling with integrity and systemic effect?

A private (by invitation only) dialogue session hosted by 100X Impact (LSE).

As social innovations move toward serious scale, the defining question becomes how proven solutions expand across regions, institutions and systems. This invitation-only salon explores what it really takes for high-impact solutions to travel – East–West and West–East — and to take root within different policy, market, and institutional environments.

The session is co-hosted by 100x Impact, a global impact initiative housed at the London School of Economics focused on backing impact ventures whose models can improve hundreds of millions of lives.

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Conservation International and Silvania Roundtable

Wed 21 Jan 2026 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 3)

A private (by invitation only) dialogue session hosted by Conservation International and Silvania.

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EU Funders Table

Wed 21 Jan 2026 10:00 am - 11:30 am (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 3)

A private (by invitation only) dialogue session hosted by We Mean Business Coalition.

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The Investment Case for Mangroves Roundtable

Wed 21 Jan 2026 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 3)

What if mangroves were treated not as conservation projects, but as core financial infrastructure for coastal economies?

A private (by invitation only) dialogue session hosted by Mangrove Breakthrough.

Coastal economies in Southeast Asia face escalating climate, erosion, and livelihood risks, yet mangroves—their most effective natural defense—remain largely invisible in investment and policy decisions. This closed-door roundtable and workshop focuses on why and how mangrove value must be systematically integrated into coastal finance. The session introduces the Mangrove Transition Bond, a regional financing instrument designed to mobilize capital through bond issuance and on-lending via local financial institutions to mangrove-adjacent businesses.

By embedding mangrove performance into risk assessment, this approach reframes rice, shrimp, and other coastal commodities as mangrove-positive assets—lower risk due to reduced erosion, salinity intrusion, wave exposure, and stronger social license to operate. Local and regional banks can therefore offer improved terms, enabling communities to access capital for sustainable production. Grounded in Southeast Asian practice, the discussion brings together finance leaders, governments, and philanthropies to explore how mangrove-positive products reach markets and become the new standard for resilient coastal growth.

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Mind the Future: Why Youth Mental Health Is the Next Economic Imperative

Wed 21 Jan 2026 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (CET/GMT+1)
Awakening House (Ochsner: Forum 2)

What if the most decisive economic investment of the next decade isn’t infrastructure or technology—but the mental health of young people who will shape productivity, innovation, and resilience worldwide?

41% of the global population is under the age of 24. Prioritizing their wellbeing and equipping young people to thrive is the key to the prosperity of the global economy over the next decade.

Mental health is the number one barrier. As the prevalence of wellbeing challenges rises globally, youth are hindered from reaching their full potential as they navigate their education and entry into the workforce. These are our future founders, CEOs, Prime Ministers and Civic Leaders. We need to pull all the levers within our control: innovation, market demand, policy, and capital to meet the exploding demand for mental health needs globally. A healthy society is the only path to a flourishing global economy.

Join SecondMuse for a discussion on how to build a global approach to investing in and capturing the value of addressing youth mental health across populations can have on the future of workforce and our economies. 

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Mobilising Long-term Capital for the Ocean

Wed 21 Jan 2026 8:30 am - 10:00 am (CET/GMT+1)
Flourishing House (Rätia Center: Forum 1)

A private (by invitation only) breakfast dialogue hosted by One Planet SWF Network and Parley for the Oceans.