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Sustainability commitments only deliver lasting results when the systems behind them are equipped to support change. The latest edition of #SystemiqPerspective explores the infrastructure, policy frameworks, data and organisational capabilities needed to move from ambition to implementation. 🔹 𝗘𝗣𝗥 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 - Why effective regulation depends on the system behind it 🔹 𝗖𝗜𝗥𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗗 - New tools connecting circular economy strategies with climate policy 🔹 𝗚𝗖𝗕𝗖 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 - Supporting country platform organisations across emerging markets 🔹 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮 - What it takes to build future-fit organisations 🔹 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 - Integrating physical risks into credit decisions Read the full newsletter 🔻

The Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC) Coalition has launched their 2026 GCBC Accelerator - a program designed to identify and support high-potential organizations across emerging markets working on country platform design, structuring, and implementation. Across EMDEs, organizations including think tanks, technical advisors, economic advisory firms, and NGOs are doing vital, locally rooted work to help governments turn climate commitments into investable pipelines. Yet, many lack the networks, visibility, and strategic support needed to scale that work. The Accelerator is designed to help close that gap. Winners will receive tailored support including product development and technical assistance, structured access to GCBC networks, communications and positioning support, and opportunities to co-deliver capacity building work linked to live country platform processes. If you work in this important and emerging space, you can apply here: https://lnkd.in/eifUmfQ6. Applications are open until 15 August 2026.

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝗯-𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞'𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁? 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞?   Anna Morser, PhD, #Systemiq Director and author of China's Food Future, speaks to Sky News' Victoria Seabrook on the race to lead in lab-grown food.   The UK has significant strengths here: strong science, and a promising regulatory environment. But without matching this with proper investment and a clear plan to scale, it risks watching other countries, such as China, turn British breakthroughs into their own manufacturing and export markets.   📺 Watch here: Can the UK remain dominant in the race for lab-grown food? https://lnkd.in/ekUHzMgQ #ChinaFoodFuture #AltProtein #FoodSystems #FoodSecurity

✨ We're thrilled to announce that Veerle Haagh has been promoted to Partner Veerle has made an extraordinary impact establishing Systemiq as a trusted advisor to governments and international institutions on climate resilience, sustainable finance and sovereign investment strategies - from leading flagship programmes with Barbados, Uganda and Kenya, to building Nairobi into our hub for Sub-Saharan Africa. Her promotion recognises not only her leadership, but her ability to translate climate ambition into investable programmes that genuinely move capital. 👏 Please join us in congratulating Veerle on this exciting milestone. We're proud to have her leadership supporting Systemiq's global impact.

The circular economy is receiving renewed policy attention, with the EU expected to publish its Circular Economy Act later this year. Yet the challenge remains significant: only 6.9% of materials entering the global economy came from secondary sources in 2024.   The latest issue of Ethical Corporation Magazine explores what it will take to accelerate the transition to a more circular economy, with contributions from Systemiq colleagues across several features.   The issue includes: • Ben Dixon on why today's linear economy has become deeply embedded and what will be needed to enable circularity at scale. • Rob Wilson perspective on the opportunities and trade-offs of paperisation. • Coverage of The Textile Recycling Breakthrough, exploring the role of textile-to-textile recycling in advancing circular systems.   If you are interested in the policies, market shifts and innovations shaping the future of circularity, it's well worth a read.   📖 Download your copy here: https://lnkd.in/eiF8nkHx Reuters Events #CircularEconomy

Physical climate and nature risks are credit risks. Yet most banks still treat them as an ESG overlay rather than as factors that belong inside core credit models.   Today we launch our new report, "Integrating Physical Climate and Nature Risks into Credit Decisions", part of Systemiq's work on the Nature on the Balance Sheet initiative.   The materiality case for physical risks is no longer prospective. In 2024, natural disasters cost USD 417 billion globally, 63% of which was uninsured. ECB analysis shows that 72% of euro area firms are critically dependent on ecosystem services, and these firms account for 75% of corporate bank lending. The report shows how banks can price these risks into credit decisions to manage downside exposure.   But the upside potential is at least as important. Resilience investments can strengthen borrower credit quality while protecting and restoring natural systems. Today, borrowers that make these investments rarely see the benefit in their credit terms, because banks still lack the tools to price them in.   Better data, improved models and clearer banking regulation can close that gap. But success will also require real-economy policies to move in tandem, or the most exposed borrowers will simply face higher costs for a vulnerability they cannot fix alone.   The report identifies three unlocks to accelerate borrower-level integration: 1. Build a shared view of which physical climate and nature datasets can support credit decisions, and where gaps remain. 2. Share methodological approaches across banking, insurance, rating agencies and development finance institutions. 3. Achieve regulatory clarity on physical risk models and resilience recognition.   We are grateful to the senior leaders from banking, insurance, regulation and development finance institutions who contributed to this report - especially those who joined our roundtable discussion during London Climate Action Week last month.   The question is not whether physical climate and nature risks will be reflected in credit decisions. It is which banks shape how that happens, and on whose terms.   Want to discuss the findings or learn more about our work? Reach out to the report's authors, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Moritz de Chaisemartin, Vitor Akkerman Aronis and Jasmine (Ying Him) Chu.   Report link in comments.   #ClimateFinance #ClimateRisk #NatureRisk #Resilience #Adaptation

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲. An estimated 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste enter aquatic ecosystems each year, with the greatest pressures often falling on places where collection, sorting and recycling systems remain underdeveloped. Alongside better product design, reduced material use and reuse models, strengthening these systems is critical to preventing pollution and keeping materials in circulation. Brazil - home to 12% of the world's freshwater - is an especially important place to demonstrate what systemic change can look like. A new white paper from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Clean Rivers, developed with analytical support from #Systemiq and Delterra and contributions from 80+ organisations, sets out a shared vision and framework for transforming Brazil's collection and recycling systems, with the aim of delivering better outcomes for cooperatives and waste pickers, citizens, businesses and the environment. Recife is the first city beginning to put this approach into practice, creating an important opportunity to test, learn and build a model that could inform wider change across Brazil. Read the white paper: https://lnkd.in/dQe_N-Zm

Our #ChinaFoodFuture analysis has been turned into a 2-minute explainer by Deutsche Welle, now live on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.   Featuring our partner Christine Delivanis, the video breaks down how China's food security push is accelerating, and what this means for the rest of the world.   500,000 views and counting 👀   Thank you Kristie Pladson for featuring our work! 🎥 https://lnkd.in/ePMZczZc

Our partner Christine Delivanis for Sustainable Views on why the EU's new Protein Action Plan is a step in the right direction, but not enough. Real #resilience means investment in alternative proteins and fermentation, backed by funding that brings consumers and farmers along.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲? That question brought together investors, policymakers, project developers and practitioners during #LCAW for a discussion hosted by FMO - Dutch entrepreneurial development bank’s Mobilising Finance for Forests (MFF) programme, Partnerships for Forests and UNEP-WCMC. #Systemiq was pleased to support the design and facilitation of the session alongside Palladium: Make It Possible. The conversation explored one of the biggest barriers to scaling finance for nature: are we overestimating the risks of investing in forests and sustainable land use? Participants identified practical ways to help close the investment gap – from expanding catalytic finance and guarantees to strengthening the evidence base for nature investments and improving access to finance for smallholders and local communities. Those insights have now been brought together in a new event report. Read the report below and explore the wider Mobilising Finance for Forests knowledge hub: https://lnkd.in/eqwMJPZD The MFF Programme is delivered by FMO and jointly funded by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.