Good morning, this is Kasmira, and as Building Bridges kicks off in Geneva this week, we spoke to its executive director Sandrine Salerno about why sustainable finance still has some growing up to do to step up to the world’s urgent challenges.

Staying with the topic of sustainable finance, former Danone boss Emmanuel Faber, who will also be at Building Bridges, told Le Temps why he is still "fundamentally optimistic" about changing the climate trajectory. This comes as bankers in the US are threatening to quit a key climate alliance...

03.10.2022

On our radar this week

Sandrine Salerno, executive director of Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG), the co-organiser of Building Bridges. (Credit: Keystone/Martial Trezzini, 2020)

‘Sustainable finance needs more collaboration, less competition.’ Since taking up her post as executive director of Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG) in January 2021, Sandrine Salerno has been on a mission to bring sustainable finance into the mainstream and to strengthen its ties with international Geneva. She speaks to Geneva Solutions ahead of the third edition of the Building Bridges sustainable finance conference, starting 3 October.

Geneva Solutions (EN)

Here’s what else is happening

🇨🇳Western push on China, Russia faces test at Human Rights Council.
AP News (EN)
♀️Mirjana Spoljaric Egger: the first woman to lead the Red Cross. Complex challenges await.
Swissinfo (EN)
📝Advocates mount new initiative for WTO to recognise public goods in trade agreements.
Health Policy Watch (EN)
👵🏽UN calls for end to discrimination against elderly.
Voices of America (EN)
🥛Former Danone boss Emmanuel Faber: 'With climate, we won't win alone'.
Le Temps (FR)
💰 In the United States, banks are threatening to quit climate alliance, as Building Bridges summit opens in Geneva.
Tribune de Genève (EN)

Also on the agenda

📌 4 October | Philanthropy & Democracy: what are the stakes at play for traditional media? Gilles Marchand, director general of Swiss broadcaster SSG-SSR, Grégoire Mallard, professor in anthropology and sociology, and Tibère Adler, Le Temps managing director, are among the panellists at this event organised during Democracy Week. Partners include the Geneva Centre for Philanthropy.

UNIGE (FR)

📌 6 October | Digital technology and the war in Ukraine. Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft, and an alumni of the Graduate Institute, will discuss the threats to cyber peace since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This in-person event at the Maison de la paix is organised in partnership with GESDA and with the support of the Fondation pour Genève.

The Graduate Institute (EN)

For more events, visit the Genève Internationale website.

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