Beyond Binaries

The climate movement has long been framed in stark contrasts: nature or technology, emissions reduction or carbon removal, East vs West. Yet the complexity of our planetary challenge demands that we move beyond black-and-white solutions.

The GenZero Climate Summit 2026 will unpack these binaries, challenging entrenched narratives, and exploring the intersections where hybrid approaches can thrive. Together, we’ll push past polarised thinking to reimagine the full spectrum of tools available for transformative climate action.

Event Details
18 – 22 May 2026
Venue Marina Bay Sands, Sands Expo & Convention Centre (Maps)
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19 June 2025
11:45AM – 12:30PM19 June 2025
6:45PM – 7:30PM

NinetyOne,
55 Gresham St

Panel Discussion

Collaborative Synergies: Mobilising Investment for Energy Transition in Emerging and Developing Economies – Day 1

(Convened by the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF) and NinetyOne)

Session Three: The Role of Carbon Markets, Carbon Credits and Carbon Offsets in Financing Sustainable Infrastructure in Emerging Markets

Generating carbon credits can reduce the perceived risk of investing in sustainable infrastructure projects by providing an additional revenue stream through regulated carbon markets.

Nature-based solutions can also be used to generate carbon offsets and preserve biodiversity and indigenous people’s livelihoods, there is concern about the quality of those carbon credits and that they might be double-traded.

This session will dig into some best practices around structuring investments to benefit from the income streams from selling these securities, but also how to ensure they are avoiding greenwashing by adopting best practice standards.

Featured Speakers

Guillaume Cravero
Managing Director, Head of Sustainability
Ardian

Nana Maidugu
Head of ESG and Sustainability
Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority

Maria Netto
CEO
Institute for Climate and Society

Frederick Teo
CEO
GenZero

Prof Patrick Schena (Moderator)
Fletcher School
Tufts University

20 June 2025
9:15AM – 9:35AM25 June 2025
4:15PM – 4:35PM

NinetyOne,
55 Gresham St

Opening Keynote

Collaborative Synergies: Mobilising Investment for Energy Transition in Emerging and Developing Economies – Day 2

(Convened by International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds and NinetyOne)

Featured Speakers

Frederick Teo
CEO
GenZero

20 June 2025
9:35AM – 10:45AM20 June 2025
4:35PM – 5:45PM

NinetyOne,
55 Gresham St

Panel Discussion

Collaborative Synergies: Mobilising Investment for Energy Transition in Emerging and Developing Economies – Day 2

(Convened by International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds and NinetyOne)

Session Six: Asia

To finish our discussions, we turn to the vast and complex picture that is catalysing the energy transition in Asia – the workshop of the world. The region’s energy system is very carbon intensive and faces the dual, often conflicting, challenge of addressing the rising need for affordable and reliable energy while cutting emissions. This session will survey this vast region, looking at the key risks, such as policy shortfalls, and currency risk as well as offtake risk. In this conversation, we will look at the additional need for innovation in both energy addition and energy transition, the need to scale innovative projects and how to work with governments to provide appropriate policy support and guarantees to get major projects off the ground.

Featured Speakers

Christopher Ganis
Chief Investment Officer
Indonesia Investment Authority (INA)

Mohammad Shahrour
Senior Manager, Development & Investment
Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company)

Michiko Suga
European Representative
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Victoria Barbary (Moderator)
Director of Strategy
IFSWF

24 June 2025
5:30PM – 9:00PM onwards25 June 2025
12:30AM – 4:00AM onwards

Royal Automobile Club

Ecosperity Conversations - Overcoming Headwinds: Bright Spots for Sustainability

(Co-curated by GenZero, Decarbonization Partners, LeapFrog Investments, and Temasek)

By-invite only

25 June 2025
2:30PM – 3:30PM25 June 2025
9:30PM – 10:30PM

Auditorium, Arup

80 Charlotte St

Panel Discussion

Urban Futures Reimagined: A Mayoral Exchange on Regenerative Cities

(Convened by CLC, C40, and Arup)

Join global city leaders for a dynamic discussion on how urban planning is driving ambitious climate action around the world. Grounded in the principles of regenerative design, this mayoral panel will explore strategies to revitalise urban spaces, promote compact and walkable neighbourhoods, and embed nature-based and community-centered approaches in city development.

The panel will provide an opportunity for speakers to reflect on how CLC’s emerging Regenerative Cities Framework, in alignment with C40’s forthcoming Urban Planning Accelerator, can advance the transition to net-zero, nature-positive and socially inclusive cities

Featured Speakers

Eirik Lae Solberg
Governing Mayor
Oslo

Federico Gutiérrez
Mayor
Medellín

Frederick Teo
CEO
GenZero

19 May 2026 (Tuesday)

Please note this programme is subject to change
Timings indicated are Singapore time (GMT+8)

14:00-14:05

(5 mins)

Opening of GenZero Climate Summit

14:05-14:15

(10 mins)

Opening Keynote

14:15-15:00

(45 mins)

High-level Context Setting Panel

In a high-level context setting panel to frame broader climate discussions, this panel will spotlight the rising urgency of efforts and integrity from all the tools in our toolkit. With corporates and investors navigating an increasingly complex landscape for climate action, the risk of fragmentation threatens trust and progress.

This discussion invites thought leaders across the global climate space to share insights on how we can move Beyond Binaries – nature versus technology, reduction versus removal, Global North versus South – to accelerate decarbonisation globally.

15:00-15:45

(45 mins)

Panel 2 | Global Efforts for A Universal Problem

Addressing climate change is not a binary play: it is not a zero-sum game between Asia or the US or Europe. It requires all actors coming together to advance the best solutions. Yet, amid shifting geopolitics and the cooling of policy momentum in the West, global climate investment is entering a new phase of uncertainty. With the US-China dynamic reshaping supply chains, the challenge is no longer about financing net zero but ensuring that the most deserving decarbonisation solutions can continue to attract global capital and scale globally.

This session explores how Asia and the West can come together to deploy the best scientific innovation, manufacturing capabilities, and operational execution to drive the global energy transition. Panellists will examine how players can navigate policy withdrawal and political headwinds to scale businesses that drive global decarbonisation. The discussion will seek to reframe climate investment as a shared, multi-regional imperative and highlight why Asia and the West play complementary roles in the path towards decarbonisation.

15:45-16:00

(15 mins)

Tea Break

16:00-16:45

(45 mins)

Panel 3 | Staying the Course on Carbon Pricing

A credible and predictable carbon price is one of the strongest levers to accelerate corporate decarbonisation and unlock climate investment. More than just a compliance fiscal tool, strong carbon pricing signals are essential for investor confidence, technology adoption, and the growth of high-integrity carbon markets.

But credibility is not only about strength – it is also about fairness. Ensuring that carbon is priced transparently is essential to the integrity of projects with benefit sharing mechanisms for Indigenous peoples and local communities. Fair pricing must ensure that these communities are properly compensated, protected and empowered.

16:45-17:30

(45 mins)

Panel 4 | Insuring Our Future: Pricing Resilience for a Changing Climate

As climate impacts intensify, adaptation and resilience are no longer optional. They are economic imperatives. This session examines how the climate-insurance ecosystem can work as a shared architecture of protection: governments creating enabling regulation and data transparency, insurers developing credible risk pricing and corporates using data and insurance to manage their risk.

17:30-17:45

(15 mins)

Closing Address