Climate Risk Summit 2020 | The Economist | 12 October 2020 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Climate change will reshape every aspect of the global economy, from politics to migration, financing to supply chains. Business leaders are already grappling with the fallout. Companies must navigate the consequences of more frequent extreme-weather events. Markets are demanding greater transparency on the climate risks that firms face. So too are regulators: in 2019 the Bank of England announced plans for climate stress tests for banks. Such demands will only increase.

The UK is expected to host COP26, the most important global gathering of government leaders on climate change. Four months ahead of this meeting, the Climate Risk Summit in London will ask how climate risk can be better assessed and managed. What role should governments and central banks play in embedding climate-change data into financial decision-making? How can companies overcome the first-mover disadvantage associated with publishing their risk exposures? Does technology reinvent the rules of risk management? And how can the public and private sectors work together to combat the greatest risk of them all?

2020 Speakers

SPEAKERS:

Dan Jørgensen
Minister of climate, energy and public utilities, Denmark

Mark Carney
United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance

Penny Endersby
Chief executive, Met Office

Nigel Higgins
Group chairman, Barclays

Diane Côté
Group chief risk officer, London Stock Exchange Group

Jeremy Darroch
Group chief executive, Sky

Nigel Topping
High level champion for climate action COP26

Christopher Hohn
Founder and portfolio manager, TCI Fund Management

Mary Schapiro
Vice chair for public policy, special advisor to the Founder and Chairman, Bloomberg and secretariat, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

Neil Beaumont
Senior managing director and Chief financial and risk officer, CPP Investments

Tj Lim
Group chief risk officer, UniCredit

Ekhosuehi Iyahen
Secretary general, Insurance Development Forum (IDF)

Sir Jon Thompson
Chief executive officer, Financial Reporting Council (FRC)

Suni Harford
President of asset management, UBS

Arun Sharma
Group sustainability lead, Adani Group

Magnus Billing
Chief executive officer, Alecta

Samantha Burgess
Deputy director, Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Edward Brans
Senior counsel, Pels Rijcken

Ben Caldecott
Director, Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme, University of Oxford

Simon Carter
Chief financial officer, British Land

James Dawes
Chief financial officer, infrastructure, 3i

Charlie Donovan
Executive director, Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College London

Laurent Dubus
Founder and services director, World Energy and Meteorology Council (WEMC) and Expert and lead scientist in weather and climate, RTE

Christiana Figueres
Former executive secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Maryam Golnaraghi
Director - climate change and emerging environmental topics, Geneva Association

Stéphane Hallegatte
Lead economist, climate change group, World Bank

Daryl Ho
Executive director - banking policy, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Wilhelm Mohn
Head of sustainability corporate governance, Norges Bank Investment Management

Robert Metzke
Head of sustainability and chief of staff Innovation and strategy, Philips

Michael Izza
Chief executive, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

Tessa Khan
Co-director, Climate Litigation Network

Jay Koh
Founder, The Lightsmith Group

Alzbeta Klein
Director and global head of climate, International Finance Corporation

Claudia Kruse
Managing director global responsible investment and governance, APG Asset Management

Matti Lievonen
Chief executive, Oiltanking

Harilaos Loukos
Founder, The Climate Data Factory

Adam Matthews
Director Investment Team, Church of England Pensions Board

Kathy Baughman McLeod
Director, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, Atlantic Council

Laura McMullen
Global head of sustainability, Compass

Mami Mizutori
Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Alexis Morgan
Global water stewardship lead, World Wide Fund

Adityadeb Mukherjee
Head, climate risk management enterprise risk management, Standard Chartered Bank

Luis Felipe de Oliveira
Director general, Airports Councils International

Amal-Lee Amin
Director, climate change, CDC Group

Stephanie Pfeifer
Chief executive, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Fiona Reynolds
Chief executive, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

Kanta Kumari Rigaud
Lead environmental specialist, World Bank Group

Nancy Saich
Chief climate change expert, European Investment Bank

Steven Tebbe
Managing director, CDP Europe

Tanguy Touffut
Chief executive and co-founder, Descartes Underwriting

Adair Turner
Chair, Energy Transitions Commission

Helen Wiggs
Investor engagement manager - climate change, ShareAction

Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-chief, The Economist

Cailin Birch
Global economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Catherine Brahic
Environment editor, The Economist

Matthieu Favas
Finance correspondent, The Economist

Miranda Johnson
South-East Asia correspondent, The Economist

Andrew Palmer
Executive editor, The Economist

Jan Piotrowski
Business editor, The Economist

Guy Scriven
Climate risk correspondent, The Economist

Rachana Shanbhogue
Finance editor, The Economist

2020 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
•Marquard & Bahls

GOLD SPONSOR:
•COPERNICUS
•Adani Group

SILVER SPONSOR:
•UBS

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