What is Investor Capacity Building for the Blue Economy?
The blue economy sector has a potential that is estimated to reach $3 trillion revenue and 200 million jobs globally by 2030. Through a series of four highly structured trainings, this capacity building programme will assist you in your journey of engagement with different blue economy sectors, from discovering new sustainable technologies with high market potential to developing your investment strategies and launching your blue economy dedicated funds.
Four trainings dedicated to investors
Session #1: Discovering Blue Economy Investment Opportunities
- Learn about emerging and sustainable technologies with high market potential across a range of blue economy sectors
- Gain insights on the main financing actors of the blue economy and the role of InvestEU and other sources of capital in financing the sector's future
Session #2: Impact Investing Masterclass
- Get familiar with important tools and frameworks to build an impactful and sustainable portfolio in the blue economy
- Ensure that your fund has a sound impact reporting and monitoring approach in place
Session #3: Investment Strategies for the Blue Economy
- Learn how to design dedicated blue funds and explore successful blue fund case studies with industry experts
- Leave the training with a better sense of investment instruments and de-risking approaches that can make sense for your blue economy investments
Session #4: Prototyping and Positioning for Blue Economy Funds
- Fine-tune your fund proposal and obtain a better sense of what is needed to convince investors to support your proposal
- Become better acquainted with practical pitching and negotiation skills needed to successfully raise a fund
Interested? Join the BlueInvest Community and register to our upcoming training sessions. Reach out to us at lu_blueinvest@pwc.com for any questions. Please be aware that the exact agenda for each session may be subject to change in the coming weeks.
Impact Investing Masterclass | 08 March 2023
Date: 08 March 2023
Format: Live event
Venue: Sparks Meeting, Brussels
Address: Rue Ravenstein 60, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
The Impact Investing Masterclass aims to provide a deep-dive on impact investing themes relevant to the Blue Economy, helping the investor community become more familiar and reassured that the Blue Economy offers opportunities for concrete impact achievements.
AGENDA
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome
IMPACT INVESTING – BLUE ECONOMY CONTEXT
09:05 – 09:35 Demystifying ESG/sustainability/impact terminologies
09:35 - 10:05 Market and regulatory impact framework overview, including the EU Taxonomy
10:05 – 10:35 Perspectives on Sustainable Blue Finance principles
10:35 – 10:45 Q&A with speakers
DEEP DIVE: TOOLS AND FRAMEWORKS
10:45 – 11:05 The case of the EIB - Blue Economy Financing
11:05– 11:25 BREAK
11:25 – 11:50 EIF Impact management framework
11:50 – 12:30 EIF Climate Action & Environmental Sustainability framework
12:30 – 13:30 NETWORKING LUNCH
SFDR, REPORTING AND MONITORING
13:30– 14:30 Regulatory and Compliance Framework for SFDR Art 8 & 9 Fund
Reporting and monitoring: what to measure, how to ensure data quality, what to report and how
PRACTITIONER PANEL & CASE STUDIES
14:30 – 15:30 Bringing impact to life: real cases
15:30 – 15:45 CONCLUSIONS OF THE DAY
16:00 – 18:00 NETWORKING DRINKS & MATCHMAKING
Upcoming capacity building sessions
Date: 20 April 2023 Format: online on the BlueInvest Community platform Indicative agenda: 14:00 – 14:10 Welcoming remarks 14:10 – 14:30 The importance of clearly defined blue investment strategies in scaling finance for the blue econonomy 14:30 – 15:10 Designing blue economy funds: some key considerations 15:10 – 15:45 Blue economy fund case study 15:45 – 15:55 Break 15:55 – 17:00 InvestEU Blue Economy case study and investment criteria 17:00 – 17:25 Blue bonds and blue credits: relevance and potential to finance blue economy companies and projects in Europe 17:25 – 17:55 Role of blended finance in de-risking blue investment 17:55 - 18:00 Concluding remarks
Unpacking Investment Strategies for the Blue Economy
Upcoming Events
BlueInvest Thematic Workshop @WindEurope
Past Events
High-Tech Summit for the Black Sea
BlueInvest for the Baltic
BlueInvest Investors Workshop @ BlueFIN
BlueInvest E-Pitching Session | 30 Nov 2022
BlueInvest | Community Platform & Project Pipeline Discovery Session
BlueInvest Webinar on the Atlantic Sea Basin
BlueInvest Day 2023
