ESG Financing & Scaling

The transformation toward a sustainable economy requires investment on an unprecedented scale, estimated at roughly USD 275 trillion over the coming decades. CleanTech and nature-based solutions face a well-documented capital gap between early-stage venture funding and large-scale deployment. Achieving net-zero targets by 2050 is expected to require approximately USD 6 trillion in additional investment per year .

This panel examines how public and private capital can be unlocked to bridge that gap, how shifting investment narratives, such as AI, defense, and changing global governance priorities, affect capital allocation, what cleantech investors are looking for today, and how nature restoration and conservation can be financed at scale.

Discussion topics include where capital is currently flowing and where it is constrained, who invests and why, which business models are proving bankable, how risks are assessed and mitigated, and how nature-based solutions can become investable. The panel focuses on later-stage venture, growth equity, pre-IPO capital, pathways to public markets, secondary liquidity, and capital-formation mechanisms that can help close the annual funding gap. Investors, capital-formation service providers, and investment bankers discuss the challenges of scaling and strategies to mobilize capital at the required scale.