Webinar recording: "Investing in sovereign climate action: Outlook from COP30"

This webinar was held on Friday 14 November online and live from the COP30 Korea Pavilion in Belém, Brazil. 

This COP30 side event highlighted key findings from the “State of the Sovereign Transition 2025” report alongside the release of our latest sovereign assessment data for 85 countries on the Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) tool. The analysis and assessments are conducted by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). 

Following a presentation on the latest developments in sovereign climate action, with a focus on Korea and its regional peers, panellists discussed the policies and governance structures needed to make Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) investable and accelerate transition finance flows. They also reflected on the ongoing COP30 negotiations and how they may shape the next decade of investment opportunities.

· Claudia Gollmeier, Head of Investment Management APAC & MEA, Managing Director, Singapore, Colchester Global Investors; Chair, the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Sovereign Debt Advisory Committee; Co-Chair, ASCOR 
· Sang Hyun Kwak, Director, Future Vision and Strategy Division, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Republic of Korea
· Mathilde Mesnard, Deputy Director, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
· Peter van der Werf, Head of Active Ownership, Robeco
· Moderator and presenter: Antonina Scheer, Senior Policy Fellow and Deputy Director, Policy, TPI Centre, LSE

The event was kicked off by Carmen Nuzzo, Executive Director and Professor in Practice, TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Jong-Ryool Kim, Vice Administrator, Presidential Commission on 2050 Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth, Korea.

We hope you find the presentation and the discussion insightful. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our speakers for sharing their expertise and insights and the Korean Pavilion for hosting us for the side event.