Climate Adaptation & Resilience for Business

18 March, 14:00-15:30 GMT

This webinar explored the business case for building adaptive capacity and the role that climate risk assessments can play in helping businesses get started. It outlined the key elements that businesses should consider as part of assessing their exposure and vulnerability to climate risks, as well as how leading companies are incorporating the findings of these assessments in their decision-making and strategic long-term planning.

Speakers:

• Prof. Swenja Surminski, Managing Director - Climate & Sustainability, Marsh McLennan & Professor in Practice, Grantham Research Institute LSE

• Sébastien Burgess, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Jupiter Intelligence

• Stuart Mitchell, Operational Risk Manager, SP Energy Networks

• Dave Madigan, Global Head of Net Zero Strategy & Climate Risk, Diageo

25 March, 14:00-15:30 GMT

This webinar provided practical guidance on how companies can make their business sites and assets more resilient to the various physical impacts of climate change. It explored the types of investments and retrofits that businesses can undertake to enhance the climate resilience of their infrastructure, how these can be carried out in line with net zero goals and in partnership with local stakeholders, and the contributions that nature-based solutions can make in this area.

Speakers:

• Adam Baranowski, Head of Climate Action & Investment, Better Buildings Partnership (BBP)
• Craig Thom, Sustainability Compliance Delivery Manager, SSEN Distribution
• Sam Longman, Head of Sustainability & Environment, Transport for London (TfL)
• Fredrik Hellman, Director of Climate Resilience, AstraZeneca
• Sébastien Burgess, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Jupiter Intelligence

8 April, 14:00 - 15:30 BST

This webinar explored the relationship between climate change and occupational safety and health (OSH) agendas. It demonstrated how companies can establish safeguards to protect their workers from climate hazards, as well as how leading businesses are engaging with stakeholders affected by their operations to create shared resilience benefits, support place-based climate action, and drive outcomes that are compatible with the principles of a Just Transition.

Speakers:

• Ruth Wilkinson, Head of Policy and Partnerships, IOSH
• Jason Glaser, CEO, La Isla Network
• Anastasia Logan, Nature Partnerships Lead, GSK
• Will McBain, Director for Adaptation and Resilience (Water), Arup

15 April, 14:00-15:30 BST

This webinar explored how leading financial institutions are assessing and acting on climate risks within their portfolios, as well as seizing emerging adaptation-related investment opportunities. It discussed the current barriers holding back the flow of private sector finance towards adaptation, how these can be overcome, and the role that policy advocacy and transition planning across the wider private sector can play in helping to unlock finance for adaptation at scale.

 Speakers: 

• Roberto Spacey Martin, Alignment Lead, Resilient Planet Finance Lab, University of Oxford
• Bouke de Vries, Climate Finance & Public Affairs, former Advisor to the Executive Board of Rabobank
• Zoe Duvall, Principal Consultant, Climate, Sustainability, and ESG
• Rowan Douglas, CEO, Climate Risk and Resilience, Howden

6 MAY, 14:00 - 15:30 BST

This webinar explored how companies can embed climate resilience considerations into their procurement practices and take action to build supply chain resilience. Case studies were highlighted to demonstrate how companies are implementing solutions to safeguard the supply of key commodities, using technology to better predict and manage disruption, and collaborating with their suppliers (including SMEs) to enhance their adaptive capacity.

Speakers:

• Marcia Toledo Sotillo, Director of Adaptation & Resilience, High-level Climate Champions
  
• Annika Zawadski, Managing Director, Partner, and co-leader of the Climate Risk, Adaptation, and Resilience Team, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)Vicki Ling, Nature & Biodiversity Specialist, Accenture
• Christopher Plester, Net Gain Technical Lead, National Grid
• Adam Thompson, Supply Chain & Sustainability Director, Pip & Nut