Energy Transition Plans in Emerging Markets: Critical Risk and Success Factors for Company Boards

Impact Boards EM collaborated with Freshfields to bring a networking event in London on 13 February 2025 to discuss “Energy transition plans in Emerging Markets: Critical risk and success factors for company Boards”. 

The themes of the event were in the following broad groupings:

• Global and domestic frameworks defining the goalposts of this energy transition (COP, NDC’s, Funding, investors/asset owners focus, certification and enforcement).

• Corporate adaptation strategies and their desired goals, and main risks associated with unsuccessful outcomes (stranded assets, unaffordable insurance or non insurability, uninvesteable sectors or names, cross border carbon taxes, other).

• Sources of funding, capital structuring and risk allocation mechanisms (first loss provisions, blended finance, risk mitigation for international investors, donors’ contributions, other).