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IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025
The Exhibition serves as a dynamic marketplace where IUCN Members, Commissions, businesses, partners, and academic institutions showcase their research, innovations, and conservation projects. Open to both registered Congress participants and the general public, the Exhibition allows exhibitors to present their work to a broad audience and network with IUCN constituents and more widely, all registered participants.
Registration formats
IUCN is committed to making the Congress as accessible as possible by offering a two-tiered fee structure. Lower registration fees are available for participants from Low- and Middle-Income countries (as per the World Bank Classification) and for young professionals and youth.To participate in the IUCN Congress 2025, participants can choose between two registration formats.
In-person registration includes:
- Full access to Forum sessions, the Exhibition, the Opening Ceremony, the Welcome Reception, the Closing Ceremony, complimentary excursions, and the Members’ Assembly.
- Virtual access to live streaming and recordings of Forum sessions, the Exhibition, the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and the Members’ Assembly until 15 January 2026.
Virtual-only registration includes:
- Virtual access to live streaming and recordings of Forum sessions, the Exhibition, the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and the Members’ Assembly until 15 January 2026.
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 2 DaysThursday
October 9
2025GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference 2025
The GCF Private Investment for Climate Conference (GPIC) is the GCF’s private sector flagship event, bringing together global leaders from both the public and private sectors.
The conference highlights successful projects while introducing innovative ideas, partnerships, and investment opportunities. It acts as a bridge between investors and fund recipients, plays a key role in identifying national priorities and investment prospects, and addresses barriers or market shortcomings.
Additionally, the GPIC offers GCF partners a platform to exchange experiences and lessons learned on collaborating more effectively with the Fund to facilitate faster and more efficient capital deployment.
The 2025 GPIC is an in-person only, select audience event that will take place 9-10 October in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It will feature a range of keynote speeches, panels, presentations and networking opportunities. Participants will include Government representatives (GCF’s National Designated Authorities) and various partners, (including GCF’s national and international accredited entities), GCF funding applicants (including via the Project Specific Assessment Approach), commercial banks, asset managers, impact investors, GCF board members, and Development Finance Institutions.
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Social Innovation House: Asia Pacific Summit 2025
WHY ASIA PACIFIC?
The Asia Pacific region stands as the world’s largest economic powerhouse, generating approximately $40 trillion and representing nearly 35.1% of global GDP. However, this remarkable economic strength contrasts sharply with the region’s pressing social challenges, including the climate crisis, digital inequality, youth unemployment, and rapid demographic transitions. While innovative solutions are emerging throughout the region to address these complex issues, they often operate in isolation—fragmented across borders, constrained by limited resources, and working within organizational silos that prevent the scale of impact needed to drive meaningful systemic change.
WHY NOW?
The Catalyst Now Asia Pacific Social Innovation Summit brings together social innovators and transformational organizations across borders and sectors to unlock collective action. This is where grassroots wisdom meets power, and where regional collaboration can drive global transformation.
Welcome to the Social Innovation House
where purpose, power, and progress converge.The Social Innovation House is a Catalyst Now initiative that began as a spark in Davos in January 2025 with the partnership with Echoing Green, Ashoka and One Family Foundation — and is fast becoming a growing constellation of catalytic spaces around the globe. As we expand, we carry with us the same spirit: to spotlight social innovators, cross-sectoral collaborations, host solution-driven conversations, foster partnerships, and create visibility for social impact ecosystems that transform systems and solve the most pressing challenges.
ABOUT CATALYST NOW
Catalyst Now is a dynamic global movement of over 6,000 social innovators transforming systems and driving sustainable change to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals worldwide. Founded in 2019 at the World Economic Forum by 50 pioneering innovators who created Catalyst 2030, we unite social entrepreneurs, civic society, funders, private sector leaders, academia, and governments to create lasting systemic change through bold, cross-sector collaborations.
With more than 100 collaborations across 150 countries, Catalyst Now creates spaces where social innovators connect, collaborate, and drive transformational change. From education and climate action to mental health and gender equality, we empower and amplify local and regional initiatives—pioneering innovative solutions that address the world’s most pressing social challenges.
OUR PROGRAM
Accelerating Social Innovation with leading social entrepreneurs and social innovators from the Asia-Pacific region.
A three-day convening, the Summit will bring together 100 of Asia Pacific’s most visionary social innovators and changemakers. In collaboration with businesses and organizations committed to addressing social and environmental challenges, we aim to drive a global movement that propels social innovation beyond borders. By fostering discussions among leaders from diverse fields and backgrounds, we seek to enhance regional cooperation and generate collective impact.
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Bottlenecks, Blind Spots, and Blended Finance
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Systems change requires reimagined “blended finance” — an approach to investing that mobilizes all forms of capital, financial as well as non-financial.If money alone could fix it, we would be further along. From a sobering SDG scoreboard — with less than one fifth of targets on track — to mounting evidence of climate stress and democratic backsliding, the pattern is clear: our bottleneck is not capital availability but capital architecture, allocation, and accountability. In this timely Luminarias session, we move past optics and acronyms to examine how impact capital actually gets mobilized and deployed where the mainstream is ill equipped to assess real risks or strengthen ecosystems.
Our featured guest, Dr. Gillian Marcelle, argues that progress stalls when we ignore three realities: structural bottlenecks, cognitive and organizational blind spots, and the need for reimagined blended finance that braids financial and non-financial capital — knowledge, networks, policy, and cultural and social capital — to unlock durable change. As ESG and DEI face political headwinds in the United States and “impact” rhetoric risks drifting into complacency, this conversation offers an imaginative and challenging approach to investing that begins with root causes and includes recommendations for getting capital unstuck — and for establishing the trust and execution capacity the global impact economy requires.
Topics to be covered
Bottlenecks, blind spots, blended finance — an original framework for moving capital from promise to performance.
Place-based architectures — designing country and regional platforms that de-risk pipeline, reduce transaction costs, and build local execution capacity.
Braiding financial and non-financial capital — aligning policy, knowledge, networks, and culture with investment flows.
Governance and accountability — approaches to ground accountability though addressing frameworks and practices that shift power, expand access, and accelerate SDG-aligned outcomes.
Operating amid headwinds — maintaining mission integrity as ESG and DEI come under attack in the United States, and avoiding impact-washing.
Overlooked deal sources — Diaspora capital, community wealth vehicles, trapped capital in insurance companies, pension funds and SWFs, and public-interest tech as pipelines for investable opportunities.Hosted by Impact Entrepreneur- Tags
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