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Unlocking Early-Stage Climate Solutions in the UAE
Presented by ADGM Academy in partnership with the Global Climate Finance Centre (GCFC)
The final episode of the Climate Investment Lifecycle series will explore how the UAE can strengthen its ecosystem for early-stage climate innovation — with a focus on adaptation and water resilience. The session will bring together perspectives from policy, venture capital, and entrepreneurship to discuss how enabling frameworks, innovative financing, and practical partnerships can accelerate the next generation of climate solutions emerging from the UAE.
Key Themes:
• Building enabling environments for early-stage climate innovation
• Fostering collaboration between policy, finance, and entrepreneurship
• Innovative and blended financing models for climate start-ups
• Accelerating adaptation and water-resilient solutions in the UAE
• Strengthening the pipeline from idea to investable venture
• Lessons learned from scaling early-stage innovation ecosystems
About the Series:
The Climate Investment Lifecycle series, co-hosted by ADGM Academy and the Global Climate Finance Centre (GCFC), explores how climate finance can be mobilised across every stage of the investment journey - from innovation and development to scale and impact. This final episode, Unlocking Early-Stage Climate Solutions in the UAE, highlights how local innovation and financing frameworks can drive adaptation, water resilience, and climate-smart entrepreneurship in alignment with the UAE’s sustainability ambitions.
Who Should Join?
- Climate-focused investors or fund managers
- Policy makers, regulators, or ecosystem enablers
- Entrepreneurs, start-up founders, or innovation programme leads
- Researchers or students in sustainability and climate innovation
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Sonia Weymuller, Founding Partner, VentureSouq |
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H.E. Fahim Al Qasimi, Founder, Seafood Souq |
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Tara Al Marzooqui, Strategy & Programme Associate, UICCA |
You’ll gain valuable insights into how collaboration and capital can help transform ideas into scalable climate solutions.