Vasudha Dialogue Singapore: Nature-based Solutions & the Blended Finance Opportunity
Nature-based solutions are becoming increasingly important for addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, water security, resilient livelihoods and ecosystem restoration. Across Southeast Asia, they offer significant opportunities to strengthen communities while protecting forests, coasts, urban ecosystems and agricultural landscapes. Yet despite their potential, many nature-based solutions remain underfinanced because conventional investment models often struggle to support their long-term, distributed and public value.
The Vasudha Dialogue Singapore brings together funders, investors, philanthropies, family offices, blended finance practitioners, policymakers, entrepreneurs, researchers and ecosystem builders to explore how blended finance can unlock scalable nature-based solutions across Southeast Asia and the Global South.
Through practical conversations, enterprise case examples and collaborative discussions, participants will explore financing gaps, investment readiness, risk-sharing mechanisms and pathways for building investable pipelines for nature-based solutions.
"Vasudha" means "Earth" in Sanskrit, reflecting a vision of climate action rooted in people, place and planet.
What to Expect
The morning will bring together stories, dialogue and relationship-building around nature-based solutions, climate
Lightning talks from investors, funders and ecosystem leaders
Facilitated breakout discussions on blended finance structures for nature, adaptation and resilience
Interactive conversations on building investable NbS pipelines, partnerships and financing models
Breakfast and networking with CSR leaders, philanthropies, investors, family offices, GPs and LPs of investment funds, financiers and entrepreneurs.
The Vasudha Dialogue Series
Vasudha Dialogue is a global conversation platform convened by EarthON Foundation to bring together leaders working across climate, finance, policy, enterprise and community action.
Previous dialogues have taken place in Mumbai, New York, Belém and London, convening more than 90 participants from philanthropy, finance, entrepreneurship and ecosystem organisations. Each dialogue explores a distinct climate finance challenge while building practical collaboration across sectors.
The Singapore dialogue continues this journey with a focus on blended finance for nature-based solutions across Southeast Asia.
Expected Output
Insights from the dialogue will contribute to a practical action plan and white paper, developed with support from SMU and LSE Generate. The publication will capture financing gaps, promising blended finance approaches, regional opportunities and recommendations for future collaboration, and will be shared with participants following the event.