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Financing a Just Transition to Net Zero
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To be successful, climate action needs to deliver positive social impacts for workers and communities, particularly in developing countries. This is the just transition agenda, which was recognized as a critical strategy at the Glasgow COP26. Governments, business and trade unions and civil society have a vital role in making the transition fair for all. The financial sector can also play a key role as investors, commercial banks and development banks. In this session, Professor Nick Robins will focus on why finance focuses on the just transition, what financial institutions are doing, and what needs to happen on the road to COP27 in late 2022.
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Nick Robins
Professor in Practice, Sustainable Finance
Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
From 2014 to 2018, Nick Robins was co-director of UN Environment's Inquiry into a Sustainable Finance System. Robins established the Sustainable Insurance Forum of regulators and the Financial Centres for Sustainability network and led country activities in Brazil, the EU, India, Italy, and the UK.
Before joining UNEP, he was head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC. Before HSBC, Robins was head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) funds at Henderson Global Investors. He has also worked at the International Institute for Environment and Development, the European Commission and the Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Robins is co-founder of Carbon Tracker and also co-founder of Planet Tracker. He has published widely and is the author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (2005) and co-editor of Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long-Term Performance (2008). He is currently working on an ecological history of England and a book on finance, climate change and justice. Robins has a BA in History from Cambridge University and an MSc in International Relations from LSE.