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Agenda
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
