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We need to make it much easier to connect
capital with impact and possibility.

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Veronica,
thank you so much for being here.

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How do you scale capital for sustainable
growth?

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What we're hearing from private capital
across the spectrum is there's a real

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interest in the growing array of
opportunities.

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And really now,
there are two key things that need to

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happen.

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One is the market itself needs to develop.

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We need to make it much easier to connect
capital with impact and possibility.

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And the second thing is de-risking.

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We need much greater catalytic forms of
capital that can take those risks and

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play that critical role from mobilizing
that private capital.

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How can financial institutions make the
most of this moment?

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This is actually a really exciting time
in the sense that there are opportunities,

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be it in catalytic finance,
be it in emerging markets,

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be it in more broadly in sustainable
finance.

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And we see financial institutions pulling
a few levers.

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First is capabilities.

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We're seeing those who are leading really
investing in building out the kinds of

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teams who know how to work across
different pools of capital and arrange

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and structure these deals at scale and at
speed.

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The second is collaboration,
finding ways to work across the public

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sector, the private sector,
and the civil society really to pull

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these transactions together.

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Not just one deal at a time,
but indeed creating broad-based platforms

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that can mobilize the billions and
trillions that we need.

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At a time where funding is so needed,
who is stepping in?

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The critical kinds of capital that we
need right now

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is that really catalytic money that can
unlock things at scale.

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And we see two really exciting newer
entrants contributing that kind of

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capital.

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The first are strategic investors,
the corporate strategic investors.

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These are companies where they see a
business case to invest in the resilience

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of their supply chains or in the
resilience of the communities that they

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operate in.

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The other actor that we see are family
offices and philanthropies that are

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shifting how they're driving impact,
not only doing grants,

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but looking into ways that their
financing can play much more catalytic

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roles.

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Thank you.