Just Transition Working Group

The Just Transition Working Group was established to develop and support investors to promote climate transition investments that are socially inclusive, ensuring that the transition to a low-carbon economy is inclusive, fair, and leaves no community behind. 

The Role of Investors in a Just Transition

Investors have a critical role in bringing about a just transition, particularly through engagement with companies and policymakers, and through the development of climate-related investment strategies that incorporate social considerations, such as employment, worker rights, labour conditions, marginalized groups, community resilience and gender.

Who can join?

The Just Transition Working Group is open to AIGCC members.

Co-Chairs

Sylvia Chen

Head of ESG Research, Asia, Amundi

Co-Chairs

Joanne Khew

Head of Sustainability, Eastspring Investments

 

Contact

Chaitra Nayak
Program Manager, Just Transition, AIGCC
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Our Activities

We help build capacity amongst investors and provide them with tools and guidance to promote and support the integration of just transition principles into engagement and investment strategies across Asia.

The working group will focus on:

  1. Capacity building
  2. Engaging with current and emerging investor frameworks on just transition
  3. Understanding tools and approaches for engagement with corporates and policymakers on just transition

Decarbonising Asian economies and operationalising a just energy transition manifest differently across various economies and geographies in Asia. We recognise that there are different starting points for each market. Policy engagement will continue to be an important, complementary element to our ongoing engagements with energy companies, ensuring the right incentives exist in the overall economy. We encourage participation from AIGCC investor members who are keen to influence policy discussions on this topic.

Anjali Viswamohanan, Director of Policy, AIGCC

Latest News, Resources, and Events on Just Transition

Early Planning for a Just Transition is Crucial for Asian Policymakers and Investors

24 September 2025

New analysis from AIGCC urges early, place-based planning that integrates climate adaptation and mitigation measures to attract stable, long-term private capital. Policy baseline study explores how place-based just transitions are unfolding in four key Asian markets: Japan, India, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Place-Based Just Transition: Policy Baseline and Case Studies

Report | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | Just Transition Working Group | September 2025

This report examines place-based just transition perspectives emerging in four Asian markets — India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan — each with distinct policy baselines, institutional capacities and labour market dynamics. It offers investors and policymakers an overview of the social transition aspects and nuances in Asian markets as they transition towards a greener economy.

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Martina Chow

Martina is a Policy Analyst with AIGCC’s Just Transition Working Group. She is based out of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Submission to the Department of Economic Affairs – Climate Change Finance Unit (DEA CCFU), Ministry of Finance, on the Framework of India’s Climate Finance Taxonomy

Policy Submissions | Asia Investor Group on Climate Change | June 2025

AIGCC welcomes the Government of India’s initiative to develop a robust climate finance taxonomy, recognizing it as a foundational step toward a transparent, science-aligned investment environment.

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