Transition planning policy is nascent, and every jurisdiction is at a different point.
More than 40 jurisdictions are putting ISSB-aligned disclosure in place. Some are going further with guidance, supervisory expectations and sector plans; others are just starting. Each designs its approach for local conditions, leading to a risk of fragmentation and fractured understanding.
The ITPN helps the officials behind those policies learn from each other. It asked us to work with its team to design and facilitate its annual Dialogue: three days away from the day job for central banks, securities regulators and finance ministries to think together.
Fluent in the subject. Skilled in the room.
Facilitating officials on transition plans takes two kinds of expertise. We know the content: we run a coalition writing transition planning guidance for real estate, and designed the CO_LAB model for public-private collaboration. And we bring energy and craft to the practice of convening, from designing a format to reading a room.
That lets the roles split cleanly. We help design the arc of the three days and the format of every breakout, then host. The ITPN team owns the content and can listen to its members. We keep the energy high, synthesise in real time and add texture to the conversation, while making space for views that differ and ideas that test boundaries.
From one conversation to a standing agenda.
In Villars, participants opened by setting joint goals for the three days. Breakouts then took on transition finance, information flows between government and business, and public finance. We closed with a round in which each person named one takeaway and one ask of the room. The Dialogue reached a clear consensus: transition plans needed a stronger narrative, and better evidence of their value.
The ITPN took the call for evidence into its work programme. A year later, it asked us back for Oxford. We reshaped the format with the team: small groups on the narrative and the business case, three parallel rooms on the policy tools that enable credible plans, and a closing session in which participants shaped the network's next phase.
“An excellent couple of days: well structured, seamlessly delivered, rich in content, and with fantastic energy and engagement across the group.”
Mark Manning, Centre for Economic Transition Expertise · LSE
Dialogues: Villars in 2025, Oxford in 2026
jurisdictions in the room each year
participants at the Oxford Dialogue
continents, from Latin America to Asia-Pacific
With the room hosted, the ITPN team could focus on content and hear what its members needed.
The format gave everyone a way in. Officials from emerging and advanced economies, with very different mandates, all shaped the discussion.
Each participant left with a clear takeaway, and an ask of their peers to act on.
Participants left thinking differently, and more optimistic than they arrived. The ITPN asked us back the following year.