02 August 2024
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WAITRO Secretariat Hosted Webinar Briefing on the WAITRO SDG Impact Poster Competition

The competition started with a webinar that aimed to answer the question “why isn’t my project attracting investors?” The goal was to equip participants to create “roadmaps to investor readiness” and they will then be challenged to tell their project story in a poster presentation. At the WAITRO Summit 2024, the best posters will be invited to participate in a rapid pitch session watched by the entire audience. The winners will receive a prize but, more importantly, will be partnered with a WAITRO-affiliated incubator and coached to execute their roadmap.

Jean-Marc Champagne, Managing Director of Seneca Impact Advisors emphasized the importance of integrating environmental sustainability into business strategies. Indeed, many of the risks to sustainability facing the world are closely related to the environment. The world economic forum (WEF), for example, makes an annual global risk perception survey and, out of the top ten risks, five of them are directly related to the environment and another two are significantly coupled…

25 July 2024 | WAITRO | Events – Participant