Canadian businesses and investors are increasingly looking outward, yet many opportunities in emerging and frontier markets remain underexplored.

Join CAFIID in Vancouver on April 1 for a dialogue at the intersection of trade and impact investing. This session will explore how Canada’s trade ecosystem, impact investors, and blended finance actors can better align to mobilize capital toward climate, gender, and development outcomes globally.

As Canada seeks to play a stronger role in emerging markets, strengthening our domestic impact investing ecosystem is essential. Greater alignment at home — across investors, intermediaries, trade actors, and capital providers — creates the foundation needed to deploy capital internationally with clarity, credibility, and scale.

Featuring perspectives from Global Affairs Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service and CAFIID members including Deetken Impact and Momentus Global, the discussion will:

• Explore how trade services connect Canadian businesses and investors to opportunities in emerging markets

• Highlight where blended finance can unlock climate and impact investment opportunities

• Discuss the partnerships, information, and ecosystem support needed for Canadian investors to engage globally

• Share practical insights from Canadian investors and companies operating at the trade–impact nexus

Meet your hosts:

Emily Boost, Co-CEO at Kore Global & CAFIID Gender Lens Investing Community of Practice

Joanne Norris, Impact Investing Consultant & CAFIID Impact Measurement and Management Community of Practice

Katharine van der Laan, Director Commercial and Standards at Taking Root & CAFIID Climate Finance Community of Practice