All Eyes on Emerging Markets: The Global Focus For Transition Finance

In this roundtable senior leaders from finance, business, governments and civil society will discuss the energy transition in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) and the opportunities, challenges and solutions for finance.

The energy transition will succeed or fail in EMDEs, which house 85% of the world’s population, account for over half of global GDP and contain most of the world’s natural resources.[1] A clear understanding of the needs and priorities for their success is essential for institutional investors to confidently engage with and fund EMDEs’ energy transitions. During this roundtable we will discuss the current state of play, highlighting areas of progress that have been made and identifying where global attention is needed to increase the scale and speed of financing for EMDEs. Key themes are likely to include:

– How financing challenges for EMDEs can be addressed to unlock capital for their energy transitions and the role of developed nations in contributing to this

– The policy interventions and regulatory updates that would most effectively increase sustainable capital allocation to EMDEs

– The proactive measures that investors and other financial institutions can take to engage with and fund EMDEs

The discussion will be informed by WBA’s project Investing Sustainably in Emerging Markets, in which we are being supported by IIGCC, PRI and others, as well as CCSI’s academic research in this space. The session will be hosted by World Benchmarking Alliance and Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI). Further participants and contributors will be announced in due course. If you’d like to join us for this event, please register using the link below (scroll down – last event). Spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

[1] https://www.worldeconomics.com/Regions/Emerging-Markets/#:~:text=World%…