SECA Impact Lunch Event: Climate Investing – How to make it work in practice

This event, organized by the SECA impact group aims at managers and decisionmakers in the investment sector, family offices, insurance firms, and pension funds.

Climate investing has become a key priority across venture capital, private equity, infrastructure, and real assets. It covers a broad range of investment opportunities; from renewable energy and industrial decarbonization to climate technologies, sustainable agriculture, forestry, and other nature-based solutions.

At this event, leading LPs and GPs will share practical insights into how climate investment strat-egies are developed and implemented. How can investors identify scalable solutions with genu-ine climate impact? Which technologies, business models, and asset classes offer the most attractive opportunities? And how can financial performance, measurable climate outcomes, and effective impact reporting be successfully combined?

Key questions of the event

Impact-focused investors - Limited Partner (LP) perspective

  • How do you define impact criteria when selecting climate-focused General Partners (GP)?

  • How do you assess a GP’s ESG and impact capabilities?

  • What is distinctive about your decision-making process? Can you share an example?


Climate Investing focused General Partners (GP) perspective

  • How do you build and manage a climate impact fund?

  • What investment criteria, ESG processes, and regulatory requirements shape your ap-proach?

  • How do your team, fund economics, deal flow, and selection process work in practice? Can you share examples of investments you have made?

Draft Agenda
(final version expected by the end of October)

  • 11.00 Welcome & Potential of Climate investing in challenging times:

    Christian K. Winkler, Managing Partner, TIE Partners + Swiss Champions Fund

  • 11.15 Two LPs vs. Two Impact General Partners share their approaches & learnings:
    Stefan Lügstenmann + Keimpe Keunig, Impact Specialist, LGT Capital Partners, Pfäffikon
    TBD
    Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, General Partner, CHI Impact Capital, Zurich
    Sascha Cisar, Head of Sustainable Investments, Nest Sammelstiftung, Zurich

  • 12.30 Panel discussion to exchange ideas and discuss specific questions

  • 13.00 Networking & flying lunch (until 13.40 latest)

Language: English