Navigating the headwinds: uncertainties and resilience of a just transition future

The panel discussion and Q&A will collect insights about the current public policy environment including the outlook and challenges for progressing the just transition in the run up to COP30.

The panel will focus on the just transition as a multilateral policy agenda. This includes how the just transition has become a core plank and/or conditionality to climate finance, its resilience to ongoing and potential retraction in climate finance, and the reform of the global financial architecture.

The panel debate will be structured around three core areas:

•  "Are multilateral climate governance frameworks helping or hindering progress on the just transition agenda?" (Explore current opportunities, standstills, bottlenecks, and deal breakers from governance, finance, legal, and social policy perspectives.)

• "Are national and regional policies advancing or undermining the just transition vision?" (Interrogate the alignment—or misalignment—between domestic political economies and global Just Transition goals.)

• "How can the private sector support the just transition and deliver co-benefits for private and public actors?" (Debate the role and responsibility of private finance and corporate actors in supporting public just transition workstreams.

The event will be chaired by Nick Robins (a Professor in Practice (Sustainable Finance) and Chair of the Just Transition Finance Lab) and moderated by Judith Tyson (Senior Policy Fellow at the Just Transition Finance Lab).

Panellists:

Jodi-Ann Wang - Global Policy Fellow at the Just Transition Finance Lab, working at the intersection of sustainable finance policy and climate justice, focusing on national and international just transition policies and the global financial architecture.

Celine Tan - Professor of International Economic Law and the Co-Director of the Centre for Law, Regulations and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) based at Warwick Law School.

Sarah Colenbrander - Director of Climate and Sustainability Programme at ODI Global. She leads a multi-disciplinary team focused on transforming agricultural, energy and urban systems to reach net-zero emissions, as well as mobilising the finance to achieve these transitions.

Tom Tayler - Head of Climate Finance at Aviva Investors. Tom leads Aviva Investors’ advocacy with policymakers and regulators on climate change and finance as a member of their Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence.