Climate Risk Summit 2019 | The Economist Newspaper Limited | 2 July 2019 | One Moorgate Place, Chartered Accountants Hall, London EC2R 6EA, UK

Imagine you are CEO of an FTSE 100 company, tasked with formulating your firm’s line on climate change. Do you: a) pen a feel-good sentence on your commitment to the environment, and add it to the company’s corporate social responsibility statement; b) leave the problem for your successors to deal with; or c) appoint a team to measure—and ultimately try to manage—the current and future impacts of climate change on your business?

Not too long ago, the answer would undoubtedly have been a) or b), save for a few dedicated souls. No longer. Planning for climate change-related risks is now an essential task for any chief executive. Even those who prefer to ignore the problem find themselves increasingly unable to do so: investors, regulators and capital markets are demanding better information on the physical and infrastructure risks that climate change poses for companies, the legal liabilities they are likely to face and the assets which may become stranded during the transition to a lower-carbon world. These risks lie—unidentified and often poorly managed—on the balance sheets of the world’s largest businesses and financial firms.

The inaugural Climate Risk Summit will bring together policymakers, business leaders, scientists and investors to begin a conversation about how organisations around the world can understand and manage climate-related risks. What impact will such risks have on markets and the economy? How can they be managed and mitigated? And how can businesses and investors seize the opportunities presented by climate change?

Featured topics include:

• How is climate risk being disclosed and reported, and what can be done to improve transparency?
• How can investors put pressure on companies to be more transparent and get better at assessing and reporting risk?
• Which models are available to inform corporations on their current and future risks?
• As the global economy moves to a lower-carbon model, how prepared are corporate giants in industries like energy and car-manufacturing?
• What is the risk to global financial stability if companies don’t get better at managing and disclosing climate-related risk? How can this global risk be managed and mitigated?

Why attend?

The inaugural Climate Risk Summit will bring together policymakers, business leaders, scientists and investors to begin a conversation about how organisations around the world can understand and manage climate-related risks.
• What impact will such risks have on markets and the economy?
• How can they be managed and mitigated?
• And how can businesses and investors seize the opportunities presented by climate change?

2019 Speakers

Andrew Palmer
Executive and digital editor, The Economist

Catherine Brahic
Environment editor, The Economist

Torbjørn Røe Isaksen
Minister of trade and industry, Norway

Harriett Baldwin
Minister of state for international development, United Kingdom

Sarah Tuneberg
Co-founder and chief executive, Geospiza

Daniel Klier
Group head of strategy and global head of sustainable finance, HSBC

James Thornton
Founder and chief executive, ClientEarth

Amelia Tan
Director, EMEA Head of Platform Strategy and Innovation, BlackRock Sustainable Investing

Todd Stern
Former United States Special Envoy for Climate Change

Nigel Brook
Global head of reinsurance, Clyde & Co

Cynthia McHale
Senior director, Insurance and Climate Action 100+ Investor Engagement, Ceres

Emma Howard Boyd
Chair, Environment Agency

Rich Sorkin
Chief executive and co-founder, Jupiter Intelligence

Nancy Saich
Chief climate change expert, European Investment Bank

Christine Faure-Fedigan
Head of corporate climate policy, Engie

Jay Koh
Founder and managing director, The Lightsmith Group

Hauke Engel
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Jonathan Baillie
Chief scientist, National Geographic

Alexandra Basirov
Global head of sustainable finance, BNP Paribas

Tony Clamp
Deputy director, private sector facility, Green Climate Fund

Kris Peeters
Deputy prime minister, Belgium

Andrew Davison
Senior vice president, Infrastructure Finance Group, Moody's Investors Service

Torolf Hamm
Global head, Catastrophe & climate risk management, Willis Towers Watson

Andrew Howard
Head of sustainable investment, Schroders

Caroline HillHead of sustainability, public affairs, health safety and security, Landsec

Sarah Tuneberg
Co-founder and chief executive, Geospiza

Steve Waygood
Chief responsible investment officer, Aviva

Kirsten Dunlop
Chief executive, EIT Climate-KIC

David Goatman
Partner and head of energy and sustainability EMEA, Knight Frank

Sacha Sadan
Director of corporate governance, LGIM

Andreas Ahrens
Head of climate, Inter IKEA Group

Charlotte Howard
New York bureau chief and energy & commodities editor, The Economist

Craig Davies
Associate director, head, climate resilience investments, EBRD

Robert Gibbins
Partner, founder and chief investment officer, Autonomy

2019 Sponsors and Supporters

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• Climate-KIC

SUPPORTING ASSOCIATIONS:
• BackBay Communications
• BRS
• Eco-Business
• Bloomberg NEF
• University of Cambridge
• System IQ
• Carbon Tracker
• Carbon Trust