From headwinds to pathways: navigating just transition finance ahead of COP30
In a year marked by mounting pressure on climate commitments and a shifting geopolitical climate, how do we protect and advance the just transition agenda?
Join leading thinkers, policy experts, and critical observers from across the just transition community for a vital panel discussion and live Q&A that tackles the challenges and prospects for equitable climate action in the lead-up to COP30. The panel will explore how the multilateral, national, and private sectors are shaping —and sometimes straining— the just transition agenda.
This event marks the launch of the report Headwinds and Structural Constraints: Mapping forces challenging just transition finance.
Agenda
10:30
Welcome and opening remarks – Nick Robins, Chair, Just Transition Finance Lab
10:35
Presentation of report Jodi-Ann Wang, Global Policy Fellow, Just Transition Finance Lab
10:45
Panel discussion
Panellists so far confirmed:
Anabella Rosemberg – Senior Advisor, Just Transitions, Climate Action Network International
Jwala Rambarran – Senior Policy Advisor, ex-Central Bank Governor of Trinidad and Tobago
Andrea Saldarriaga – Technical Director of the Taskforce on Inequality & Social-related Financial Disclosures.
11:30
Q&A chaired by Nick Robins
11:45
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How to attend?
To join this event you will need to register in advance online via Zoom
Panellist biographies
Jwala Rambarran has over thirty years of experience in international finance and sustainable development, including serving as Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and advising the Executive Director of the Brazilian Constituency at the IMF Board.
Jwala is currently a Senior Advisor to the Climate Vulnerable Forum – Vulnerable Group of Twenty (CVF-V20). He is now providing guidance on the Lifeline Initiative – the development of the world’s first multi-regional financial arrangement designed to address climate-related shocks among V20 member countries.
Jwala is a member of the Task Force on Climate, Development, and the IMF, a global group of experts advocating a development-oriented approach to climate change at the IMF. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC) on cross-cutting issues affecting SIDS, such as sovereign debt, climate finance, and reform of the global financial system.
Jwala Rambarran is a Distinguished Fellow at the Sustainable Finance/Adaptation and Resilience Programs of ClimateWorks Foundation, where he supports the global philanthropy’s grantmaking strategy to mobilize public finance for a global and equitable green transition. His work also covers adaptation finance, loss and damage, and nature-based finance.
Jwala is a member of the Independent Expert Working Group on Transition Finance at the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
Andrea Saldarriaga is a sustainability practitioner and business and human rights expert with nearly twenty years of experience leading policy and practice to advance social sustainability across sectors and geographies. Andrea has extensive experience in devising and implementing actionable strategies to address complex sustainability challenges, with special emphasis on human rights, having worked with major multinational corporations, global financial institutions, governments, and civil society organisations.
Andrea also brings a wealth of experience as an international lawyer. She has worked alongside legal, commercial and operational teams to position human rights within organisations, engaging with teams across the business to support the implementation of human rights policies and processes and ensure regulatory and reporting compliance. She has ample experience with the financial sector including as a member of the roster of experts of the project complaint mechanism at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, an advisor to a group of Dutch banks in the context of the Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on International Responsible Business Conduct and as the head of the social policy team at Barclays.
She is committed to working collaboratively and engaging with stakeholders to explore constructive approaches to identify and manage sustainability risks, with a keen ability to forge consensus to move forward in sensitive contexts and establish fruitful collaborations.