Making Climate Action Investible: The Policy and the Data
Introduction Last week, I attended ‘Making national climate action investable: why and how?’, 1 a public lecture hosted by the Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre) and the Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The expert panel shared insights on how they believed sovereigns could make Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and climate action goals attractive investments to raise funds necessary for the low-carbon transition. These insights are valuable as we track the policy developments of young administrations such as in the US and UK, as well as how upcoming governments in Canada and Australia will pursue NDCs and climate action objectives. I will share my key takeaways from the panel’s discussion and then briefly explore the TPI’s fascinating Assessing Sovereign Climate-Related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) project, which monitors global progress in managing the low-carbon transition an...