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 and CAFIID members including Deetken Impact, Momentus Global and the Table of Impact Investment Practitioners (TIIP), 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 Steering Committee

Joanne Norris
Impact Investing Consultant
CAFIID Impact Measurement and Management Community of Practice Steering Committee

Katharine van der Laan
Director Commercial and Standards at Taking Root
CAFIID Climate Finance Community of Practice Steering Committee
CAFIID Board of Directors