Agenda

Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in GMT.

8:20 AM
Registration, networking & morning coffee
 
9:00 AM
Chair’s opening remarks

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins CBE, FRS, Chair, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London; Emeritus Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading

9:05 AM
Keynote address I

The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore OBE MP, MP for Kingswood, Chair, UK Government Net Zero Review 

9:20 AM
Presentation - Using weather and climate science to address the challenges and opportunities of climate change

Simon Brown, Services Director, Met Office

9:40 AM
Presentation: Scenario planning and modelling for the financial sector

Carlos Santos, Member and Chief Executive Officer, Ethos Asset Management 

10:00 AM
Regulatory and policy: climate adaptation and financial institutions – what steps need to be taken now?

Moderator

Lorraine Johnston, Global Finance Regulatory Partner, Ashurst

Panellists

Dr Nicola Ranger, Executive Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Systemic Resilience and Programme Leader on Resilience and International Development at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford and the Centre for Greening Finance and Investment 

Chris Faint, Head of the Climate Hub Division, Bank of Englan

Carlos Santos, Member and Chief Executive Officer, Ethos Asset Management

Sacha Sadan, Director of ESG, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)  

10:50 AM
Networking & morning coffee break
 
11:15 AM
Presentation - From Policy to Delivery

Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair, Green Finance Institute, Global Ambassador, Race to Resilience & Race to Zero

11:25 AM
Critical infrastructure I - the UK’s climate adaptation plans for road and rail

Moderator

Prof Anusha Shah, Senior Director, Resilient Cities, Arcadis

Panellists

Colin Holm, Senior Technical Advisor, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, National Highways

Lisa Constable, Weather Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Manager, Network Rail 

Dr Katherine Drayson, Strategy and Planning Manager (Environment), Transport for London (TFL)

12:15 PM
Keynote address II: Climate science and lessons for scenario and adaptation planning

Professor Stephan Harrison, Director of Climate Change Risk Management, Professor in Climate and Environmental Change, Exeter University

12:45 PM
Networking & lunch break
 
1:45 PM
Critical infrastructure II: the UK’s climate adaptation plans for power generation and distribution

Moderator

Lisa Salmore, Director, Net Zero Engineering, National Grid

Panellists

Laura Sandys CBE, Chair, Government's Energy Digitalisation Taskforce, Non-Executive Director, SGN

Adam Berman, Deputy Policy Director, Energy UK

Dr Beate Degen, Chair of IRM Trading & Advisory

2:30 PM
Keynote address III: Climate adaptation: critical but hard to fund

The Baroness Brown of Cambridge DBE FREng FRS, Chair of Adaptation Committee, Climate Change Committee

2:50 PM
Keynote address IV

The Rt Hon, The Lord Deben, Chair of the Climate Change Committee, and Chairman of Sancroft International

3:10 PM
Networking & afternoon tea break
 
3:25 PM
Critical infrastructure III - the UK’s climate adaptation plans for water management and flood prevention

Moderator

Steven Lloyd, Board Director Arup Corporate Finance, Leader ESG & Sustainable Investment, Arup

Panellists

Geoff Darch, Head of Supply Demand Strategy, Anglian Water Services

Nick Reynard, Head of Hydro-Climate Risks, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH)

Jonathan Day, Deputy Director, FCRM Risk Assessment, Environment Agency

4:10 PM
Presentation: Managing the potential reputational challenges of climate adaptation

Danielle Boyd, Head of Climate Strategy Implementation, IIGCC

Kelly Christodoulou, Senior ESG Advisor, Investments, AustralianSuper 

4:30 PM
Chair’s closing remarks

Professor Sir Brian Hoskins CBE, FRS, Chair, Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London; Emeritus Professor of Meteorology, University of Reading 

4:35 PM
Close of proceedings