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Drawing on data from the ASCOR tool and the Centre's State of the Sovereign Transition 2026 report, panellists from investor and government perspectives will discuss sectoral transition planning and the financial instruments sovereigns use to raise transition finance. The chair is Professor Carmen Nuzzo of the TPI Centre, with speakers including Marjan Divjak of Slovenia's Ministry of Finance, Jana Harvey of RBC BlueBay, Maya Hennerkes of the EBRD and Setenay Hizliok of the TPI Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/state-of-the-sovereign-transition-2026-from-national-targets-63367/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/sovereign-transition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf12df2256ca374a678f8e339f440b3f1b2ddebfb4b0a9d8ef0916f6b7aaad7d-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "AI for Net Zero Infrastructure: Accelerating the energy transition through artificial intelligence", "start": "2026-11-02T09:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T13:30:00Z", "place": "Digital Catapult", "address": "Euston Road 101, NW1 2RA London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/energy-transition", "science/ai"], "description": "An event exploring how artificial intelligence can accelerate the energy transition towards net zero infrastructure. 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