Financing a Just Transition in Emerging Markets: The Role of NBFCs, Financial Policies and Regulations
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About this Event
A ‘just transition’ is increasingly recognised as essential to ensuring that climate action drives more equitable and inclusive economic outcomes. Without targeted interventions, the shift to low-carbon economies could lead to job losses, displacement, and regional economic decline. Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) can play a critical role in financing this transition, particularly in underserved sectors and regions. However, they face enduring structural barriers, including limited access to long-term, affordable capital, capacity gaps, and challenges in meeting the compliance standards required by international capital providers. At the same time, policy and regulatory frameworks remain underdeveloped in many emerging markets, lacking comprehensive transition finance strategies and standardised green taxonomies continuing to constrain the flow of finance toward just transition objectives.
In response to these challenges, and under the aegis of London Climate Action Week 2025, the JIM Foundation, LSE Grantham Institute (Centre for Economic Transition Expertise and the Just Transition Finance Lab) and auctusESG seek to organise a webinar titled ‘Financing a just transition in emerging markets: The role of NBFCs, financial policies and regulations’. The webinar seeks to unpack the regulatory barriers hindering just transition investments by NBFCs in emerging markets by fostering a dialogue on actionable policy solutions and financial instruments to mobilise capital at scale. The webinar will bring together leading voices from NBFCs, development finance institutions, regulators, and climate policy experts to explore innovative mechanisms, transition metrics, targets and non-financial reporting to accelerate just transition finance in the emerging markets. Panelists will share regional insights, successful case studies, and policy recommendations aimed at unlocking capital flows to underserved economies.
auctusESG, Joint Impact Model (JIM) Foundation and The Just Transition Finance Lab, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
auctusESG is a global advisory firm specialising in sustainable finance, climate transition, ESG, and climate risk management. Led by senior bankers, it has completed 28 projects across 18 geographies. Its clients include governments, UN agencies, DFIs, and organisations like the World Bank. auctusESG has also trained over 2000 banking officers in climate risk management across India, Latin America, Central Asia, and APAC.
The Joint Impact Model (JIM) Foundation, established by several International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in May 2022, is a non-profit organisation that develops and maintains the JIM, a web-based tool enabling financial institutions with portfolios in emerging economies to report and assess their financed greenhouse gas emissions, job creation, and contributions to GDP.
The Just Transition Finance Lab, hosted by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science supports the transformation of the global financial system to achieve progress on climate and wider environmental goals through a people-centred approach. With the goal of being a centre for experimentation and excellence in the financial solutions needed for a just transition, the Lab intend to show how the just transition can be both possible and investable.
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