From dialogue to decarbonisation: can investor engagement deliver?

从对话到脱碳:投资者参与能否实现?

LSE: Public lectures and events

2026-02-23

1 小时 31 分钟
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With momentum behind the low-carbon transition faltering and headwinds mounting, investors play an increasingly critical role in in sustaining climate ambition.
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • Welcome, welcome everyone in person and online.

  • To this LSE lecture, titled From Dialogue to Decarbonization, Can Investor Engagement Deliver?

  • My name is Carmen Noto,

  • I'm Professor in Practice and the Executive Director of the TPI Global Climate Transition Center,

  • or TPI Center for Short, here at the LSE, and I will chair today's session.

  • A core part of our mission at the TPI Centre is to bridge rigorous academic research with real-world investment practice.

  • And today's event is doing just that.

  • We're bringing together leading scholars and senior investors to explore one of the most pressing questions in sustainable finance,

  • which is simple and profound.

  • Can investor engagement deliver on decarbonisation?

  • We all know that we're meeting at a time when the low-carbon transition is facing significant...

  • headwinds climate action has become politically contested in many jurisdictions and yet the underlying challenge of climate change and the need to finance and manage the transition are not going away

  • if anything they'll become more urgent to tackle.

  • And to explore the role of investors and what they can do in driving the low carbon transition,

  • we're fortunate to have a very distinguished panel tonight.

  • I will show past the floor to Nicholas Hastreiter,

  • a PhD candidate at the LSE and also a policy fellow at the TPI Center.

  • His research explores how sustainable finance influences corporate climate action with a focus on climate alliances and net zero targets.