Most of the world’s Emerging Markets are back in focus this year, as we see increased appetite and deal flow in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and elsewhere. Many large EM economies have returned to international bonds markets, following a record spree of defaults during the pandemic. The impact of the wars in Ukraine and Israel has been softened by slowing inflation, surging economic growth, and recovering risk appetite for export credit and project finance deals. Take a journey around some of the most exciting trade and investment destinations, according to our Seer, and start Day Two on a high note of commercial opportunity and risk mitigation.

We gather esteemed government ministry representatives to address one of the most pressing environmental and social challenges of our time: how to balance achieving net-zero emissions and reduced carbon with the need for economic growth and affordable energy in developing nations. Can we establish rules and partnerships between developing governments, financial institutions, and agencies to harmonise development and climate objectives?

The path to net zero is undeniably Odyssean, laden with economic, social, political, budgetary, and analytical challenges along the way. We task our multinational leaders one-by-one with navigating these obstacles and charting a path to net zero, both within their organisation and collaboratively with the wider global community.

Leaders from the development, export and agency finance world join Eavie and Faruq for a series of back-to-back interviews. We delve deep into how they are structuring their organisations to respond to escalating climate change threats, accelerate energy transition, finance innovation and emerging technologies, and provide increased flexibility and accessibility to unlock more critical projects.