Nexus and The Gold Standard Foundation will host the inaugural Innovative Finance for Sustainable Development Conference (IFSD) focused on measuring and valuing co-benefits at the National Library in Singapore on November 11 and 12, 2014.

The two-day interactive conference, sponsored by the blue moon fund, will gather investors, donors, business and non-profit leaders to explore how innovative and powerful finance mechanisms, such as results-based finance (RBF), can support climate and development projects.

IFSD is a platform to advance and facilitate multi-stakeholder discussions on these innovative financing opportunities.

The agenda is now available, please click here.

“Results-based finance offers a promising opportunity to significantly scale-up investments for climate friendly development projects,” says Marion Verles, Executive Director for Nexus. “As a cooperative of development practitioners, we have designed the IFSD conference in such a way to spark discussions on everything from measuring and valuing co-benefits to the issues concerned with effective financing.”

The conference will include panel discussions, project presentations and networking sessions on topics such as:
# Finance for climate and development: What is working? Where are the gaps?
# How will a results-based approach work and why is it appealing to investors?
# How can you value benefits beyond carbon?
# Why is measuring, reporting and verifying the impacts important for success?
# Who finances what and when?
# Can results-based finance tackle the challenges of communicating sustainability?
# Matching of public/private sector interests and project developer offerings: What are the opportunities and challenges? How are the risks determined and allocated?

Join these organizations already attending #IFSD2014:
Sustaintech
Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)
SNV Netherlands
iDE
Sindicatum
BIX Fund
Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture
& Natural Resource Management (WOCAN)
Hydrologic
Hivos
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
S3IDF
Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)
Agence Franciase de Developpement (AFD)


CALL FOR PARTNERS
If you are looking for the unique opportunity to increase visibility and recognition within the sector, create an extensive network with business community and non-profit actors and demonstration of corporate citizenship for your stakeholders/clients, then become a #IFSD2014 sponsor/partner! Our Nexus team has prepared a variety of sponsorship packages which offer a variety of benefits, such as presentation rights or preferred speaker status.

Outreach and Media Partners are also welcome to attend our event at special rates.
Interested parties can mail in to events@nexus-c4d.org for more information.

CO-ORGANIZER
The Gold Standard Foundation
For ten years, The Gold Standard Foundation has pioneered the way climate change is addressed. Its ‘results based finance’ approach - in which individuals, corporations and governments buy credits against verified emission reductions and sustainable development outcomes - has channelled more billions of Euros into 1000 low carbon development projects. The Gold Standard was established in 2003 by WWF and has more than 80 NGO partners worldwide. http://www.goldstandard.org/

OFFICIAL SPONSOR
blue moon fund
blue moon fund has more than 70 years of experience in philanthropy. It is a strategic, initiative-based philanthropy that helps improve the human relationship to the natural world. http://www.bluemoonfund.org