SSF Public Newsletter August 2026: Standing Firm
Does sustainability still matter for a company's strategy? In collaboration with the Swiss Board Institute and swissVR, SSF invited 40 board members from various companies to discuss this very question. Consensus was clear in the room: despite all headwinds, sustainability is of strategic essence. It matters for resilience and risk management as much as for competitiveness and innovation – how to drive efficiency, improve resource productivity and spot capital allocation opportunities. Find out more about what SSF has been working on in recent weeks and what events you can look forward to.
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CWZ 2026 S&P Global Podcast
Does sustainable finance support resilience and adaptation?” During Climate Week Zurich 2026, S&P Global Podcaster Lindsey Hall sat down with Sabine Döbeli, CEO Swiss Sustainable Finance, to discuss what is the industry most concerned about. “Many people in Sustainable Finance prove in their daily work that it makes sense to integrate sustainability into financial decision making”, says Sabine Döbeli.
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Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study 2026
The 2026 Swiss Sustainable Investment Market Study 2026 presents a comprehensive overview of sustainability-driven investments and examines the evolving landscape of Switzerland’s sustainable finance sector. It underscores the rising adoption of sustainable investment practices among banks, asset managers, and institutional investors and focuses on highly relevant topics as AI, nature-related risks and sustainability guidelines for real estate investments.
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SSF Annual Conference 2026: Innovating for a Sustainable Future
At this year’s Annual Conference, we explored how innovation drives sustainable solutions. Experts advancing to the next frontier of innovation shared insights into their work and demonstrated how artificial intelligence is being used to tackle some of society’s most complex challenges. The programme also featured prominent leaders from companies advancing efficient agriculture and reducing pollutants, highlighting practical approaches to sustainability.
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SSF Spotlight: How Artificial Intelligence Contributes to Effective Sustainable Finance
This paper explores the potential applications of AI to support sustainable finance, along a "data-to-decision" workflow with five stages: collecting data, ensuring its quality, extracting insights, anticipating future outcomes, and drafting content to communicate results. Within each step, this paper highlights real-life use cases as illustrative examples.
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SSF Spotlight: Targeted Impact Measurement as a Prerequisite for Effective Impact Investing
How can players in this field measure their impact as accurately as possible? What role do data providers play? The latest spotlight highlights the challenges investors face when they want to measure and document their impact, presents practical solutions, and makes recommendations on how frameworks, digital tools, and collaborative approaches can be used to report quantitative and qualitative performance indicators.
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