State of the sovereign transition 2026: from national targets to sector signals
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In the week before COP31, the annual platform for negotiating and advancing global action on climate change, this event will reflect on the state of national transition planning in 2026. Meeting national climate targets increasingly depends on mobilising private capital and translating these ambitions into commitments and policies that the private sector, including investors, can act on. Building on their economy-wide targets and climate laws, many countries have initiated sectoral transition planning to guide corporate decarbonisation and attract transition finance. This is a key finding of the TPI Centre’s State of the Sovereign Transition 2026 report.
In this event, the TPI Centre will highlight common gaps and emerging best practices in climate policymaking by drawing on the latest data from the ASCOR (Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks) tool. Panellists representing investor and government perspectives will share insights on transition planning at the sectoral level and discuss the novel financial instruments that sovereigns are leveraging to raise transition finance.
Meet our speakers and chair
Marjan Divjak is Director General of the Treasury Directorate at Slovenia's Ministry of Finance, responsible for sovereign funding, liability management, state budget liquidity, and Single Treasury Account operations. Under his leadership, the Directorate won Sovereign Risk Manager of the Year 2017 (Risk magazine); Marjan was named Personality of the Year 2026 by Environmental Finance. He previously advised the Prime Minister's Office. He chairs SID Bank's Risk Committee and is an IMF External Expert. He holds a BEng (Leeds) and MSc in Mathematical Finance (Oxford).
Jana Harvey is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Team at RBC BlueBay. Previously she was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Rogge, co-leading the EM team in London and Singapore. Her asset management career began at Threadneedle in 2006. She holds a BSc in International Economics (University of Economics, Prague), an LLM in Finance (J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Complex System Modelling (King's College, London). Jana is a CFA charterholder, holds CFA certificates in ESG investing and in Climate and Investing (CCI).
Setenay Hizliok is a Project Lead at the TPI Centre, leading research on sovereign transition planning and the methodological development of the ASCOR tool. Previously, she worked at Türkiye's Ministry of Treasury and Finance on energy, climate governance and green fiscal policy. A Jean Monnet scholar, Setenay holds an MSc in European Studies from the Middle East Technical University and an MSc in Energy & Climate Policy (Distinction) from SPRU, University of Sussex.
Carmen Nuzzo is Professor in Practice & Executive Director at the TPI Centre. She leads the Centre's strategy, research and operations. A macroeconomist with 20+ years in financial industry research, her career spans Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and the UN PRI, where she headed Fixed Income and ESG integration across sovereign & private debt. She holds a Ph.D. in Capital Markets from the University of Bergamo, Italy, and was a visiting scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business.
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Established in June 2022, the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre) is an academic research centre at LSE dedicated to producing independent and forward-looking research and data on the progress of corporate and sovereign entities in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Its assessments use publicly disclosed information and its research outputs and datasets are publicly accessible.
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