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The Back Table No.1 | Detangling Nature Financing
Nature runs on abundance and redistribution. It overproduces, then gives almost all of it away. Nothing accumulates for long.
Our capital system was built to do the opposite. Concentrate, hold, extract. It is very good at it.
Somewhere between those two facts is the reason so much money is pledged to nature and so little of it ever arrives. We know this. Most of us have watched it happen from the inside.
The people trying to fix it are arriving at a similar answer from very different directions. Stop treating a landscape as a portfolio of unrelated bets, and fund it as one system, where each part makes the others more solvent. Systemic investing, if you want the term for it. Easy to say. Considerably harder to structure, price and get past an investment committee.
So let us spend an evening on it. Not on a panel. A collaborative space with those who have skin in the game.
What happens
We arrive an land. We leave the day behind us and set the foundation for the discussions we want to have.
We hear from voices who have tried. Popcorn style stories from several people and organizations that have built and prospered, tried and failed. Some food for thought before we come together.
Then we work. The room splits in two.
One half takes the money's journey down: how do we get capital to the people doing the work without it being eaten on the way?
The other half takes the money that never leaves: billions in Swiss endowments and family offices agree with all of this, and yet almost none of it moves.
Draw it, map it, define it. Then we convene, come back together, and conclude on clear next steps and commitments.
And finally dinner. We'll continue dream and build together over a shared meal.
Who comes
Investors, foundations, family offices, founders, buyers, researchers, regulators. The Decision Room builds rooms that are deliberately mixed, and this evening will be no different.
Stay tuned! The voices in the room will be announced soon.
Getting in
30 seats. The application takes one minute.
Chatham House. We keep a record of the evening, and no name goes on anything without your approval.
The Decision Room Principles
Authenticity. We invite people, not brands. Phones stay away during our exchanges, because presence is the price of a real contribution.
Reciprocity. We create encounters that would not happen otherwise, and everyone enters as an equal contributor. Come knowing what you have to give, not only what you came to find.
Confidentiality and follow-up. Our rooms are a safe space. No name enters the public record, but the commitment you make does. What is said stays anonymous; what is decided gets carried, and you can partner with us to hold it forward.
Community, protected at all costs. The room is only as strong as the people in it. As we grow, we lean on you to bring the ones who belong in the discussion. We trust your referrals.
Impact is the driver. The Decision Room began with one wish: that innovators and investors could work together before capital is on the table, shaping what the market should build before the paths are set. You are here because you care about a future that does not exist yet, one that arrives faster when it is built together.
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