🏦 Central Banks and the Climate Crisis 🏦
Fawcett 9.04, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, WC2A 2AZ
Monday 16th March 2026
Legal Voices for the Future presents our March 2026 Knowledge Session on 🏦 Central Banks and the Climate Crisis 🏦, hosted in partnership with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and led by LVF Stewardship Committee member Martina Menegat.
The session, happening on 16 March 2026 (Monday) at 6.30pm, will discuss how lawyers (both within and outside central banks) have played a decisive role in leading to the integration of climate considerations into central banking frameworks, from monetary policy to banking supervision. The session will explore how these legal issues have been addressed in practice, also in light of the current geopolitical context.
Join us in person at LSE Grantham Research Institute or online (Teams/ Zoom details to be provided to attendees).
Presentation
This session led by our LVF Stewardship Member Martina Menegat will explore how law has shaped the way the central banking community has engaged with climate issues.
In recent years, central banks have emerged as unexpected players in the climate agenda. They have begun to address climate change within monetary policy and banking supervision, in light of the macroeconomic and financial repercussions of both climate impacts (physical risks) and the transition to a net-zero economy (transition risks).
💡Through novel interpretations of central bank mandates, lawyers have helped clarify whether, and to what extent, central banks can contribute to addressing climate-related risks.
Panel discussion
Each of our monthly knowledge sessions will include an interview with guest practitioners/ academics who will bring the topic of the presentation ‘to life’.
Martina will be joined by three experts with different legal backgrounds: Daniel Segoin, Senior Legal Counsel at the European Central Bank, Megan Bowman, Professor of Law and Director of Centre for Climate Law & Governance at King's College London, and Dan Eziefula, Lawyer at ClientEarth’s Accountable Finance Team.
Creative content
In our creative content discussion, we will engage with a collective readout of the short novel from Luigi Pirandello “The Train has Whistled”.
About the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading multidisciplinary centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise from across LSE and beyond, including on economics, finance, geography, the environment, science, law, international relations, development and political science.
About Legal Voices for the Future
Legal Voices for the Future is a collaborative knowledge-sharing forum established by young practitioners from different fields of law, whose objective is to give voice to a new generation of lawyers. We do so by holding monthly knowledge sessions open to everyone - lawyers and non-lawyers alike.
In order to bring fresh perspective, innovation and determination to pressing global issues such as climate change, each session is organised and led by a different member of Legal Voices for the Future.
Learn more about us on our website
https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk
...and our Law Society page
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/climate-change/legal-voices-for-the-future
Follow us on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/legal-voices-for-the-future/?viewAsMember=true
Would you like to support our work?
We accept small donations via our fundraising page that we use to rent venues and provide catering for our events: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/legalvoices
Funds go towards our current operational costs, including subscriptions and website maintenance costs. Any donation is greatly appreciated!
Event page photo credit: needpix.com
Your Data
By signing up for a ticket to this event, you consent to us collecting and processing your personal data for the purposes in our Privacy Notice (accessible at https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk/privacy-policy/).
Attendees' names will be shared with the LSE Grantham Research Institute for the purposes of admission to the event.
LVF may be taking photographs of this event for use on our website, social media accounts, and/or promotional materials. If you have any objection to being photographed please let us know before the event begins.
Photo credit: Fennel Financials
The session, happening on 16 March 2026 (Monday) at 6.30pm, will discuss how lawyers (both within and outside central banks) have played a decisive role in leading to the integration of climate considerations into central banking frameworks, from monetary policy to banking supervision. The session will explore how these legal issues have been addressed in practice, also in light of the current geopolitical context.
Join us in person at LSE Grantham Research Institute or online (Teams/ Zoom details to be provided to attendees).
Presentation
This session led by our LVF Stewardship Member Martina Menegat will explore how law has shaped the way the central banking community has engaged with climate issues.
In recent years, central banks have emerged as unexpected players in the climate agenda. They have begun to address climate change within monetary policy and banking supervision, in light of the macroeconomic and financial repercussions of both climate impacts (physical risks) and the transition to a net-zero economy (transition risks).
💡Through novel interpretations of central bank mandates, lawyers have helped clarify whether, and to what extent, central banks can contribute to addressing climate-related risks.
Panel discussion
Each of our monthly knowledge sessions will include an interview with guest practitioners/ academics who will bring the topic of the presentation ‘to life’.
Martina will be joined by three experts with different legal backgrounds: Daniel Segoin, Senior Legal Counsel at the European Central Bank, Megan Bowman, Professor of Law and Director of Centre for Climate Law & Governance at King's College London, and Dan Eziefula, Lawyer at ClientEarth’s Accountable Finance Team.
Creative content
In our creative content discussion, we will engage with a collective readout of the short novel from Luigi Pirandello “The Train has Whistled”.
About the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to create a world-leading multidisciplinary centre for policy-relevant research and training on climate change and the environment, bringing together international expertise from across LSE and beyond, including on economics, finance, geography, the environment, science, law, international relations, development and political science.
About Legal Voices for the Future
Legal Voices for the Future is a collaborative knowledge-sharing forum established by young practitioners from different fields of law, whose objective is to give voice to a new generation of lawyers. We do so by holding monthly knowledge sessions open to everyone - lawyers and non-lawyers alike.
In order to bring fresh perspective, innovation and determination to pressing global issues such as climate change, each session is organised and led by a different member of Legal Voices for the Future.
Learn more about us on our website
https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk
...and our Law Society page
https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/climate-change/legal-voices-for-the-future
Follow us on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/legal-voices-for-the-future/?viewAsMember=true
Would you like to support our work?
We accept small donations via our fundraising page that we use to rent venues and provide catering for our events: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/legalvoices
Funds go towards our current operational costs, including subscriptions and website maintenance costs. Any donation is greatly appreciated!
Event page photo credit: needpix.com
Your Data
By signing up for a ticket to this event, you consent to us collecting and processing your personal data for the purposes in our Privacy Notice (accessible at https://legalvoicesforthefuture.co.uk/privacy-policy/).
Attendees' names will be shared with the LSE Grantham Research Institute for the purposes of admission to the event.
LVF may be taking photographs of this event for use on our website, social media accounts, and/or promotional materials. If you have any objection to being photographed please let us know before the event begins.
Photo credit: Fennel Financials
