Synopsis
In the UK as elsewhere, we are seeing extreme weather conditions, which will continue to worsen as we approach 2050, and perhaps beyond. Against this background, financial institutions of all kinds – banks, asset managers and insurers – need to put in place climate adaptation plans as part of their overall business continuity planning. These need to include the direct impact of climate change on running their own businesses and the indirect impact of the changing climate on borrowers, investee companies, policy holders, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders.
The 2nd Annual Climate Adaptation and Resilience Summit takes a detailed look at all the key issues in the round. It combines keynote addresses, panel discussions and individual presentations to provide delegates with a 360-degree understanding of the topics that they need to take account of when drafting or updating their climate adaptation plans.

Head of Sustainability
Openreach

Co-Chair and Director, Resilient Planet Finance Lab
University of Oxford

Executive Director
Green Finance Institute

Director of Thought Leadership
CDP

Head of Accounting, Audit and Disclosure
Carbon Tracker

Chief Executive
CBI (Confederation of British Industry)

Chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), and Chief Responsible Investment Officer
Brunel Pension Partnership Limited

Chief Strategy Officer
Impax Asset Management

Managing Consultant
EcoAct

Senior Climate Adaptation Specialist
Paul Watkiss Associates

Head of Climate Adaptation and Resilience, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE

Global Practice Leader - Climate Change
Mott MacDonald

Investor Strategies Programme Director
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Managing Director, Head of Sustainability Strategy
Barclays

Head of Services
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Director, Climate Adaptation Specialist
Climate Sense

Co-Founder and Director of Science and Technology
XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative), part of The Climate Risk Group

Chief Executive Officer, The Carbon Trust
former Chief Executive of the Climate Change Committee

Chief Executive
Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT)

Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Head of Climate & Sustainability Risk and Innovation
Marsh

Director, Global Climate Adaptation & Resilience Specialist
S&P Global Ratings

Professor of Climate Science and Energy-Meteorology, and joint Head of the Department of Meteorology
University of Reading

Associate Director: Climate Risk Strategy, Technology & Innovation
Ricardo

Global Senior Lead Manager, Strategic Planning & Stress Testing - Economic and Climate Risk Scenarios & Analysis
HSBC