CIIP jointly organised the 4th edition of the Impact Investing Roundtable (IIR), a partner event of Ecosperity 2026, alongside Temasek, on 19 May 2026. Themed “Beyond Intentions: Opportunities and Imperatives Ahead for Impact Investing”, the event welcomed asset owners, GPs, corporates, and ecosystem partners for an afternoon of discussions on how to materialise impact ambitions through capital deployment at scale.
In his remarks, Temasek Trust’s CEO Desmond Kuek spoke about pathways for catalytic capital and impact solution pipeline strengthening across the Temasek Trust Collective. He emphasised the importance of pricing climate and social risks honestly, building investable structures blending catalytic and commercial capital, and measuring what matters to enable scaling of successful models.
CIIP's Dawn Chan opened the event, officially launching the report “Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Asia”, authored by CIIP in partnership with Temasek, Invesco, CGIAR Hub for Sustainable Finance (ImpactSF), and supported by Dalberg.
We then welcomed a panel moderated by Alexander Chan, CAO for Asia Pacific, Invesco, featuring Diana Guzman, Group Chief Sustainability Officer, Prudential plc and Chairperson, Prudence Foundation, Lorenzo O. Chan, Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer, Hari Menon, President - Global Growth and Opportunity, Gates Foundation, Dr. Megumi Muto, Senior Managing Executive Officer and Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer of Mizuho, and Mireille Einwachter, Chief Sustainability Officer, FrieslandCampina. Representing perspectives from the insurance, banking, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, the panel discussed the opportunities and business-critical need to strengthen climate adaptation and resilience (CA&R) across the region, as well as the cross-sector collaboration needed to achieve scale.
In the discussion segment that followed, participants surfaced key challenges to deploying into CA&R, including risk-return challenges, dangers of maladaptation, and lack of knowledge/capacity, indicating the need for concessionary and catalytic capital, cross-sector partnerships, and stakeholder engagement. We are particularly grateful to our table moderators for shaping these conversations.
In the second half of the IIR, Benoit Valentin, Head of Impact Investing, Temasek, and Urs Wietlisbach, Co-Founder of Blue Earth Capital, discussed approaches to embedding impact into capital deployment at scale.
Temasek’s Eliza Foo then moderated a discussion with Patrick Kanters, Chief Investment Officer, Private Investments, APG, Jennifer Park, Partner, ALTÉRRA, and Jim Sorenson, Founder and Chairman, Sorenson Impact Foundation, building on the same theme, focusing on how to scale impact capital credibly.
These discussions provide critical views into what is needed to overcome structural challenges in scaling up impact investment in CA&R and other key sectors, from managing and pricing climate risks to building robust outcome measurement to mapping clear exit pathways.
We are grateful for the strong partnership of our Temasek colleagues and for the passion and clarity of thought brought by our participants, and we look forward to the IIR growing in strength year by year.
