Building Bridges 2025 Event Report
From 30 September – 2 October 2025, Building Bridges returned to the CICG, Geneva for its sixth edition at a pivotal moment for sustainable finance. The 2025 edition brought together participants from 64 countries and 109 nationalities, reflecting the truly global reach of the Building Bridges community.
Under the theme Innovative Solutions and Investment Opportunities in Sustainable Finance, the programme spotlighted scalable finance solutions that address systemic risks, sharpen the investment case for sustainability, and unlock long-term value across sectors. Over three days, more than 130 public and private financial institutions, impact investors, corporates, consulting firms, governments, UN agencies and NGOs hosted 67 events, spanning themes from climate and nature finance to impact investing, innovative finance, emerging markets and more.
This 2025 Event Report captures the key insights, ideas and collaborations that shaped the discussions in Geneva, reflecting a shared commitment to advancing sustainable finance in an increasingly complex global landscape.
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Former Building Bridges Reports
Building Bridges is a joint initiative, launched in 2019 by Swiss public authorities, the finance community, the United Nations and other International partners, to accelerate the transition to a global economic model aligned with the SDGs. Learn more.
Download the former reports co-edited with the Centre for Finance and Development (CFD), led by Professor Nathan Sussman.
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Collaboration
The Geneva Graduate Institute has been part of the Building Bridges journey from the start, bringing academic rigour and global development expertise.
In 2025, Building Bridges formalised this partnership by welcoming the Institute as an official Ecosystem Partner. The Insititute’s Centre for Finance and Development (CFD), led by Professor Nathan Sussman, has helped produce the Building Bridges event report, while a new collaboration with the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability has brought an inaugural conference on interdisciplinary approaches to planetary sustainability, complementing the Building Bridges programme. Building Bridges also joined the Institute’s Applied Research Projects programme with “The Geneva Blueprint: Innovative and Blended Finance in Action.”
Together, we strengthen the link between academia and finance to drive sustainable impact.