The Lagos Business School (LBS) Sustainability Centre and Stanbic IBTC Holdings have planned to co-host the Sustainable Finance Summit 2.0 today, September 23, 2025, to advance sustainable, climate-smart initiatives in Nigeria.
The event, themed “Financing Resilience: Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence for Climate-Smart Communities,” will explore how sustainable finance, driven by digital innovation and AI, could foster climate resilience and sustainable development in Nigeria and across Africa.
According to the organisers, the forum will serve as a platform to explore transformative approaches to sustainable financing powered by digitisation and AI.
Director, LBS Sustainability Centre, Oreva Atanya, who spoke on the summit, said that the Forum’s objectives aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the G-20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap, the African Union Agenda 2063, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement, and Nigeria’s National AI Strategy, all geared towards harnessing the potential of critical sectors on the continent.
