Well-being Economy

Climate Finance & Well-being Economy

A well-being economy places people and planet at the center of prosperity. It challenges the idea that endless growth is the only path forward and instead measures success through health, resilience, and shared flourishing. Acting at both global and local scales is essential: globally, to shift policies, trade, and finance toward equity and sustainability; locally, to root these principles in communities, ensuring that everyday lives reflect dignity, balance, and care. By bridging the two, a well-being economy becomes not just a vision, but a lived reality where systemic change touches every level of society.

  • Global Action

    This year we are preparing for COP31 in Turkey with a strong focus on food systems resilience and finance for women farmers and women entrepreneurs in the food systems sectors. We are partnering up with the UNDP hosted Global Conscious Food Systems Alliance and actively shaping the Summit taking place in Busan just before COP. This work builds on the previous achievements secured at COP30 in Brazil, Belém, with the adoption of the Gender Action Plan‍ including gender-responsive climate finance, and the outreach we led in partnership with the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative and the COP30 Presidency, scaling up financial resources for women leaders driving the green and blue economies.

  • National Action

    We have led and hosted 3 major innovative multi-stakeholder dialogues bringing together partners from 3 industry sectors and 442 participants, to focus on the Initiative pour une place financière durable, in coordination with the Alliance Climatique Suisse and other members of the broad coalition collecting signatures for new legislation on financial regulation.

    The initiative has collected a massive amount of 145,000 signatures from citizens across the country and has now been successfully handed over to the Federal authorities.

    With banks and insurance companies responsible for 18 times more carbon emissions than the entire Swiss population, this is essential for the federal government to establish a stronger legislative framework requiring financial institutions to align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement.