Climate transition plans for ESG risk management: what role for companies and investors?

In a changing European regulatory environment, despite the recent easing of several obligations for companies, climate transition plans remain strategically important. Although no longer mandatory, they are still crucial tools for steering capital flows toward decarbonisation. For companies, they help align investment, industrial, financial, and governance choices within a long-term strategy. For investors, they provide a clear basis for capital allocation decisions.
European supervisory guidance requires financial intermediaries to integrate climate risks into credit, investment, and underwriting processes. As a result, the quality and credibility of companies’ transition plans can influence financial assessments, capital allocation, and access to funding. Transition plans, therefore, remain central to the dialogue between financial institutions and businesses.

The conference will present the role of transition plans as a competitive advantage: tools to analyse, anticipate and manage ESG risks, enhance market credibility, and steer corporate strategy toward long-term sustainability.

Session Chair

Francesco Bicciato, Executive Director, Italian Sustainable Investment Forum (ItaSIF)

Program 

Introduction by the Chair

14.05 Representative of European Environment Agency (TBD)  

14.20 The point of view of European investors
Aleksandra Palinska, Executive Director, Eurosif

14.40 Scaling investment for the transition
Nick Robins, Senior Director, Finance and Private Sector, World Resources Institute (TBC) 

15.00 Transition: a risk that can no longer be ignored
Isabel Reuss, Senior Climate and Social Advisor, ItaSIF

Ecomondo’s companies: Implementing transition plans: challenges and opportunities

Discussion and closure by the Chair