EDITORIAL

When the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) collapses under pressure from American states exploring the concept of antitrust to prevent financial players from collaborating on climate change, we are surprised, and outraged.
 
First of all, we are surprised, quite simply because, as Ksapa organizes and leads various collaborative initiatives - sectoral, international, multi-stakeholder - it is quite obvious that the issue of anti-trust is one of the most basic fundamentals necessary to set up and lead these collaborations successfully.
 
A collaborative approach remains an essential dimension of corporate and investor action on the 2030 Agenda, for a number of reasons: 

• Complexity of the issues: Problems such as climate change, human rights, water pollution or biodiversity loss are complex and multidimensional. At Ksapa, our collaborative initiatives are built around a holistic approach and an in-depth understanding of various fields. Collaboration brings together diverse expertise, complementary knowledge and perspectives to tackle these issues more effectively. For example, we are working on energy transition value chains (including solar panels and electric vehicle components) by bringing together European and North American buyers and investors, from a variety of legal, human rights, sectoral and other perspectives.
• Complementary resources and skills: Collaborative initiatives often require considerable resources, whether in terms of finance, infrastructure or technology. Collaboration makes it possible to share available resources and combine the complementary skills and capabilities of the various players. For example, Ksapa runs a number of local programs under which digital platforms are financed and supported by the collaboration of various players representing the industrial and local chains involved.
• Exchange of knowledge and experience: Collaboration encourages the exchange of knowledge and experience between stakeholders. This enables them to learn from each other, share best practices, disseminate innovations and solve problems collectively. Ksapa is for instance facilitating a number of close discussions between 14 global investment funds keen to make collective progress in their ability to take better account of human rights throughout the investment cycle. Each fund contributes with its very own experience in order to share knowledge with its peers.
• Enhancing impact: drawing on our various assignments and experience in infrastructure development, we work with different infrastructure builders to better align their operational complexity with the expectations of major international donors - the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, for example. In this way, Ksapa enables various players to multiply their impact by working together towards a common goal. Cooperation between different stakeholders helps to coordinate actions, avoid duplication, increase the effectiveness of interventions and maximize the results achieved. This can help speed up the transition to meet the 2030 Agenda.
• Increased mobilization and legitimacy: Collaboration often involves the active participation of the stakeholders concerned, which strengthens the legitimacy of the activities undertaken. In Sri Lanka, for example, when Ksapa brings together governments, civil society, global buyers and local businesses, research institutes, universities and rural communities around a territorial project to improve the life of farmers through a capacity building programme, Ksapa facilitates the mobilization of stakeholders towards a shared territorial development objective. By including different stakeholders in the decision-making process and encouraging the participation of civil society, collaboration encourages the mobilisation of and support for sustainable development initiatives. It also allows the needs and aspirations of different stakeholders to be better taken into account, leading to more inclusive and sustainable solutions.
• We are also involved in a number of initiatives around impact finance and the notion of Regenerative Investment, which are likely to drive new approaches to bringing together financial, industrial and public players around the UN 2030 Global Agenda.

A collaborative approach is essential if we are to make progress on climate change, human rights or the mobilization of resources. It enables complex challenges to be tackled, resources and skills to be shared, knowledge to be exchanged, the impact of actions to be enhanced and stakeholders to be mobilized around common objectives.
 
Ksapa offers a range of solutions that can be used anywhere in the world. On a daily basis, we work on these issues of transformation, which are summarized in our Towards 2030 report. On a daily basis, our team and our community of 150+ experts based in the G20 economies, Africa and South-East Asia deploy multidisciplinary and contextual expertise to work together on these sensitive and complex issues.
 
We look forward to hearing from you soon!
 

Farid Baddache, CEO