Vidarsha Dharmasena, former Head of Sustainability at DFCC Bank PLC, Sri Lanka, explores why achieving global sustainability ambitions requires more flexible, locally grounded approaches to climate finance, and how exchanges can help bridge the gap between international standards and the realities facing emerging markets.

Masanori Yoshida, Senior Executive Officer, Global Chief (Sustainability, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations) at Japan Exchange Group (JPX), explores how investor education, sustainability-related disclosure, and AI-powered information infrastructure are helping investors navigate increasingly complex data and make more informed long-term investment decisions.

Adrian Ip, Chief Strategy Officer at Aquis Exchange (A SIX Company) and Independent Chairman of Carbonfuture, explores why compliance and voluntary carbon markets must evolve together, and how trusted infrastructure, standardisation and transparent market mechanisms are essential to scaling carbon markets and achieving net zero.

Julie Becker, CEO of LuxSE, explores how sustainable debt markets are evolving from financing green projects to supporting economy-wide transition strategies, and why transparency and credible disclosures are essential to mobilising capital towards a net-zero future.

Dr Maryam Alhalboni, School for Business and Society, University of York, explores how procedural policy clarity enables markets to act on climate-related information, showing why disclosure alone is not enough to support effective capital allocation.

Helena Viñes Fiestas, Chair of the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance and Commissioner of the Spanish Financial Markets Authority, explores why where companies invest their capital matters more than the climate targets they set.

Aobakwe Aupa Monyatsi, CEO of Botswana Stock Exchange, outlines how stronger regional cooperation can create more connected capital markets, unlock investment opportunities and support sustainable economic growth.

Arunma Oteh, Co-Chair, and Simon Rawson, Executive Director, of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), explain how stock exchanges can help shape the disclosure of inequality and people-related issues.

Valdene Reddy, Chief Executive Officer of the JSE, explores why the next phase of transition finance must move beyond disclosure and focus on enabling investors to confidently allocate capital towards credible transition pathways.