Under the leadership of Antje Biber, the Global Asset Owner Meeting convened key players across European finance and policy — including the European Investment Fund (EIF), PGGM, Fondation Prince Albert II de Monaco, European Central Bank, and the European Commission — alongside corporates and private capital.
Villa Bonn
Antje Biber
Thomas Röhrl
David Buyck
Over 2.5 intensive days, the meeting established clear principles for action on embedding climate and nature at the heart of finance:
• Vision without action is hallucination. The momentum is with those actively deploying capital today, guided by sound economics rather than endless debate.
• Climate and nature are core financial business. A design thinking session with EIF, PwC Luxembourg, Perpetual, NIXDORF Kapital AG, Airbus, and others validated the concept of “venture squads”: corporates leading at the center, supported by experts, regulators, and investors to identify challenges, cluster them into themes, and scale practical, impactful solutions. Collaborative initiatives are now underway.
• Market signals drive investments. Venture squads are engaging from pre-seed through Series A, while CAPEX funding comes from established players — for example, banks like Citi are successfully issuing climate and nature-focused bonds. The venture capital landscape is evolving with higher interest rates; innovators must demonstrate profitability for scale. EIF data confirms 2023’s top-quartile fund returns are the strongest since 2018, despite wider dispersion and most funds still in investment phases.
• This is about Massive Transformative Profit: Nature’s challenges represent unprecedented business opportunities. Climate action opens doors, but robust economics secure the capital needed.
If your organisation is prepared to take meaningful steps towards integrating climate and nature into core financial strategy, we invite you to connect and collaborate.