The GET-2 Think-Tank, promoted by the Fide Foundation with the support of leading entities, has published the GET-2 Annual Oxford Congress 2025 Final Report – Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability, a comprehensive conclusions document that captures the key insights, debates and proposals discussed at the Oxford/25 Congress, held at Jesus College (University of Oxford) on 17–19 September 2025.
The report consolidates the work of experts from the financial industry, academia, regulators, international organisations and civil society, and marks a new milestone in the evolution of GET-2 from a primarily ESG-focused initiative toward a broader, impact-oriented and data-driven agenda for sustainable finance.
From ambition to execution: a pragmatic turn in sustainable finance
Under the umbrella theme “Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability: #Impact #Engagement #Megatrends #Data powered by AI”, the Oxford/25 Congress addressed how sustainable finance must adapt in a context of:
- Political and social pushback against ESG in several jurisdictions
- Growing urgency around climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality
- The rapid deployment of artificial intelligence and financial data science
- Increasing regulatory complexity and regional divergence, particularly between the EU, U.S. and LATAM
The Final Report highlights a shared diagnosis across sessions: sustainable investing can no longer rely on labels and generic commitments. It must be grounded in credible transition plans, robust and decision-useful data, targeted regulation, and measurable real-world outcomes, while maintaining financial discipline and fiduciary responsibility.
A cross-cutting agenda: climate, nature, impact and AI
The publication gathers the conclusions from all keynotes, panels and Q&A sessions, including among others:
- One Health and Biodiversity: Scientific Insights into Economic Impacts, linking planetary health, biodiversity loss and economic risk.
- Decarbonizing Balances in Industrialized Economies, examining transition plans, industrial competitiveness and the role of finance in supporting a sustainable energy future.
- A Sustainable View from the U.S., offering a deep dive into how the American sustainable investing landscape is recalibrating under political and regulatory pressure.
- Regulatory Crossroads: What LATAM Embraces (and Rejects) from the US & EU, analysing how Latin America is building its own sustainable finance frameworks inspired by—but not identical to—European and U.S. models.
- From Pushback to Progress, exploring engagement strategies to turn ESG fatigue and backlash into more focused, outcomes-driven dialogue with corporates and policymakers.
- Impact Investing: Mainstream Momentum or Niche Pursuit, assessing how impact investing is scaling across private and public markets, and the challenges around additionality, data and regulation.
- Q&A: Biodiversity in Sustainable Finance, discussing the role of frameworks such as TNFD and evolving investor expectations on nature-related risks.
- 5 Key Questions for the Future of Sustainable Investment, reflecting on credibility gaps, capital flows, defence finance, transition assets and the reframing of sustainable investing objectives.
A distinctive feature of Oxford/25 was the integration of AI and data science into the sustainability debate, through sessions such as:
- Sustainability and Freedom: Impact via AI and Financial Data Science
- From Theory to Reality: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence
- Unlocking the Power of AI: From Theory to Implementation
These contributions show how AI assistants, agents and augmented financial data science can help navigate complex regulatory environments, process ESG and impact data at scale and support more pragmatic, transparent and accountable decision-making—while also underlining the need for safeguards around hallucinations, explainability, intellectual property, ethics and governance.
A collective effort
The Final Report reflects the collective work of all those who made the Oxford/25 Congress possible. In particular, GET-2 and Fide wish to acknowledge the leadership of the Congress Directors, Cristina Jiménez (President and Founder, Fide Foundation) and Juan Ramón Caridad (Head of Fide’s International Strategic Group), as well as the guidance and critical input of the Scientific Committee, whose members helped shape the agenda and steer the discussions towards effective and realistic outcomes:
- Ana Rivero, Operating Partner ESG, Alantra.
- Marisa Aguilar, Managing Director | Country Head Iberia, Allianz Global Investors.
- Ángel Pérez, Founder and Managing Partner, Transcendent.
- Marta Olavarría, Financial Markets Regulation & Sustainable Finance, Consultant, Lecturer. Independent Advisor, Mediolanum Bank Gestión Independent Board Member.
- Ramón Esteruelas Berlinguer, Senior Investment Specialist – Discretionary Portfolio Management at CaixaBank Asset Management.
- María Folqué, Head of Marketing for Spain and Portugal, Allianz Global Investors. Member of Green Finance Institute Advisory Board in Spain.
- Gonzalo Yebes, Senior Financial Risk Expert, Banco de España.
- Rebeca Cordero, Sustainability Advisor.
The report also recognises the contribution of all speakers, moderators and participants, who intervened in a personal capacity, and whose views do not necessarily represent the official position of the institutions or entities to which they belong.
The Congress and the ongoing work of the GET-2 Think-Tank are supported by a network of collaborating entities and partners from the asset management industry, pension sector, market infrastructures and civil society, whose continued commitment has been essential to keep this dialogue independent, plural and firmly anchored in practice.
- Columbia Threadneedle Investments
- Pictet Asset Management
- Allianz Global Investors
- M&G Investments
- FIAP
- Instituto BME
- Transparency International-España (TI-Spain)
Looking ahead: towards Oxford/2
With the publication of the GET-2 Annual Oxford Congress 2025 Final Report – Reaching Pragmatism in Sustainability, the Think-Tank closes a key chapter and opens the next. Building on the conclusions of Oxford/25, preparations have already begun for the Oxford/26 Congress, which will deepen the focus on impact, credible transition pathways, nature, AI-enabled analytics and regionally adapted regulation.
The Final Report is intended as a reference document for practitioners, regulators, academics and all professionals involved in sustainable finance who wish to move beyond slogans and work with concrete, actionable ideas.
