Following an international career in banking, Derek Baraldi joined the Forum as Head of Banking and Capital Markets.
The Forum's Banking Industry community brings together leaders from the world's top banks to engage in key global issues with other stakeholders, including government leaders, CEOs and senior executives from other industries, heads of international organizations, academics, experts, thought leaders, head of NGOs, labour leaders and other representatives from civil society.
For financial institutions, nature is increasingly becoming a material financial issue. Economic activity across sectors relies heavily on natural systems including land, freshwater, ocea...
2025年、持続可能性は地政学や選挙といった、ニュースを席巻する話題の影に隠れていました。ただし、持続可能な社会に向けてグローバルな課題の解決に資金を提供する金融の仕組み、サステナブルファイナンスの勢いは衰えていません。
In 2025, sustainability has been overshadowed by geopolitics and election cycles dominating headlines. However, momentum around sustainable finance has not stalled.
Rising food prices, increasingly erratic weather patterns and mounting supply chain disruptions are making one fact impossible to ignore: food systems are under growing pressure, and the ...
Los sistemas alimentarios son fundamentales para la agenda de sostenibilidad global y forman la columna vertebral de la nutrición y la estabilidad económica globales. Se necesita una comp...
Food systems are central to the global sustainability agenda and form the backbone of global nutrition and economic stability. It takes a complex array of steps to deliver food from farm ...
Three years into the “decisive decade” of the 2020s, while the upward trajectory in capital flows to climate-aligned opportunities is encouraging, the target for scale and speed of invest...
COP27 has kept the momentum behind the 2015 Paris Agreement’s 1.5° Celsius target going, with the renewed push from the United States and European Union to strengthen countries’ commitmen...
Clean hydrogen is pegged as a cornerstone of the transition to a net-zero future, with the ability to contribute to industrial decarbonization, power generation, energy security and trans...
The landmark IPCC climate report revealed an alarming reality: the globe is likely to reach 1.5C in the next 20 years. We need to cut greenhouse gas emissions urgently and at scale to pre...
Trillions of dollars in investment will be required to transition the global economy to net-zero emissions and avert a climate catastrophe. This represents a massive opportunity for capit...
The fallout from COVID-19 continues to challenge and disrupt economies around the world, but the banking and capital markets sectors can help steady the ship. Through new, innovative liqu...
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent shockwaves rippling through the global economy, threatening the progress that the Banking & Capital Markets Industry (BCM) had made in regaining consume...
In recent years, leaders of public and private organizations, regardless of sector, have started to prioritize sustainability. And now, banking is starting to see sustainability as a prio...
