Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This opening plenary session will tackle a key challenge for markets around the world that deeply impacts responsible investors: navigating the transition to net zero in a just and orderly way, with a focus on carbon-intensive and emerging economies.
Looking back to PRI in Person Tokyo in 2023, and a year of expanding debates between government, market participants and civil society, the session speakers will discuss what are the best approaches to transition entire economies to net zero, what are the trade-offs to tackle, and what is the role for policy intervention to ensure it is just, inclusive and ambitious.
The session will focus on political commitment and action to enable the economic transition. It will include a debate for and against intervention in markets as the best way to transition economies, and key questions such as, can markets alone achieve a just transition? What policies are inhibiting or supporting investment in a just transition? How can policymakers reinforce investor policy engagement for a whole-of-government, ambitious policy reform?
Speakers:
Michael Cohen, Chief Investment Operating Officer/Chief of Staff, CalPERS
Carine de Boissezon, Chief Impact Officer, EDF (remote speaker)
The Hon. Senator Rosa Galvez, Senate of Canada
Catherine McKenna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions, Chair, UN Secretary-General’s High-level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments
Sbu Ngwane, Group Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Old Mutual (remote speaker)
Moderator: Simon Mundy, Moral Money Editor, Financial Times
Keep the conversation going: #PRIinPerson
This opening plenary session will tackle a key challenge for markets around the world that deeply impacts responsible investors: navigating the transition to net zero in a just and orderly way, with a focus on carbon-intensive and emerging economies.
Looking back to PRI in Person Tokyo in 2023, and a year of expanding debates between government, market participants and civil society, the session speakers will discuss what are the best approaches to transition entire economies to net zero, what are the trade-offs to tackle, and what is the role for policy intervention to ensure it is just, inclusive and ambitious.
The session will focus on political commitment and action to enable the economic transition. It will include a debate for and against intervention in markets as the best way to transition economies, and key questions such as, can markets alone achieve a just transition? What policies are inhibiting or supporting investment in a just transition? How can policymakers reinforce investor policy engagement for a whole-of-government, ambitious policy reform?
Speakers:
Michael Cohen, Chief Investment Operating Officer/Chief of Staff, CalPERS
Carine de Boissezon, Chief Impact Officer, EDF (remote speaker)
The Hon. Senator Rosa Galvez, Senate of Canada
Catherine McKenna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions, Chair, UN Secretary-General’s High-level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments
Sbu Ngwane, Group Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Old Mutual (remote speaker)
Moderator: Simon Mundy, Moral Money Editor, Financial Times
Keep the conversation going: #PRIinPerson
