08:00 – 08:50

Breakfast and refreshments

08:50 – 09:00

Chair’s opening remarks

09:00 – 09:35

REGULATION
Adapting strategies to manage prescriptiveness of regulation and the complexities of global expectations

Reviewing the current and upcoming climate regulation and policy landscape
Assessing the impact of IRA on climate risk management
Navigating the climate regulatory landscape
Managing a lack of regulatory consistency and convergence
Impact of EU regulatory framework on the US
Navigating global regulation vs US state by state legislations
Political impact of complexity

10:50-11:25

CLIMATE RISK
Measuring, managing and quantifying the impacts of climate related risk

Integrating climate risk measurements into strategy
Evaluating a banks portfolio from a climate risk perspective
Translating climate risk into a measure of financial risk and performance
Understanding the direct impact of climate on other risk silos
Identifying type and impact of a climate risk
Understanding climate risk metrics and indicators

11:25-12:10

DISCLOSURES – PANEL DISCUSSION
Reviewing disclosure requirements and understanding what final disclosure rules could mean for institutions

Disparities of disclosure requirements between regions
Ensuring appropriate controls and systems are in place to meet disclosure requirements
Overcoming fragmented disclosures globally
Data requirements
Impact of SEC disclosures on transition risks
Understanding potential reputation risks as a result of disclosures

12:10-12:45

REPORTING
Anticipating new reporting requirements from the ISSB

Managing increase in regulatory requirements and incorporating forward looking metrics
Use of granular data in reporting
Additional climate factors under TCFD and what should be reported
Understanding how banks report climate metrics
Ensuring climate is effectively reported to the board

01:45-02:20

CARBON MARKETS & INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Reviewing the current and future carbon markets landscape

Assessing the status of carbon markets
Key challenges and investment opportunities
Reviewing carbon development projects by region
Leveraging opportunities into best-in-class investment strategies
Technological developments in carbon markets
What does the future hold for carbon markets?

02:20-02:55

SCOPE 3 EMISSIONS
Ensuring the infrastructure and technology is in place to manage extensive data and reporting requirements of scope 3

Assessing data availability from the entire value chain
Supply and customer chain
Obtaining accurate and usable data
Ensuring interpretability and comparability
Defining ownership and accountability
Ensuring all companies effectively report scope 3 emissions
Operational risks of meeting scope 3 emissions reporting requirements

02:55-03:30

TRANSITION RISK
Developing a roadmap for successful implementation and execution of transition plans

Challenges transitioning to a low carbon economy
Need for regulation to drive transition to a low carbon economy
Transitioning areas heavily dependent on fossil fuels
Long and short terms impacts of transition on economic inequality
Leveraging data to provide transition pathway and drive transition
Use of forward looking metrics to asses transition readiness

04:00-04:35

PHYSICAL RISK
Understanding the relationship and ripple effect of physical risk across other areas of an organization

Assessing the potential vulnerabilities of your portfolio to physical risk
Managing internal and external physical data
Location specific data challenges
Granularity, location and deep location
Identifying all physical assets owned by a company
Impact of compounding physical risks
Effectively using physical mapping
Viewing physical and transition risk in totality

04:35-05:10

CLIMATE RISK IMPLEMENTATION
Implementing climate risk into day to day risk management and business decisions

Driving implementation with compliance and regulatory focus
Realigning business perspective of climate risk
Internalizing climate as a function
Building internal climate risk capabilities
Firmwide risk identification assessment

05:10-05:45

EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS
Managing impact of extreme climate events on the banks portfolio and adjusting risk strategies

Preparing financial institutions for extreme weather events
Reviewing how the insurance industry are ahead of extreme climate events
Anticipating an increase in physical hazard events
Supply chain risk from extreme climate events
Internal investment to prepare for extreme climate events
Avoiding geopolitical concentration risks from extreme weather events

05:45-05:50

Chair’s closing remarks

05:55

End of day one and networking drinks reception

08:00 – 08:50

Registration and breakfast

08:50 – 09:00

Chair’s opening remarks

09:00 – 09:45

NET ZERO – PANEL DISCUSSION
Bridging the gap between making net zero commitment and building a robust transition plan

Transition requirements to meet net zero goals
Influence SEC climate rules will have on how net zero commitments are set
Shifting portfolio to stay aligned with net zero targets
Re-engineering banking lending policies
Ensuring future investment in green products
Assessing carbon budget in real time
Dynamic assessment of net zero trajectory
Political impact of managing differing commitment goals
Long and short terms impacts of meeting net zero goals

09:45-10:20

DECARBONIZATION
Understanding the challenges and opportunities of decarbonizing your portfolios and the transference of carbon exposure

Leveraging data to decarbonize portfolios
Understanding why just divesting is not a solution to decarbonizing
Adhering to net zero targets when decarbonizing
Driving capital to a more sustainable business model when decarbonizing portfolios
Nature dependencies when offsetting carbon
Assessing the quality of the carbon offset
Review of decarbonization technologies

10:50-11:25

FINANCED EMISSIONS
Developing best practice for emission disclosure requirements and methodology

Understanding where increase emission reduction is being carried out
Managing limited data on emissions and financial flow
Anticipating varying emission computation
Providing emission reduction on a rolling basis
Managing strategic based risks
Disclosures under financed emissions
Maneuvering different methodologies used by different vendors
Expansion of scope 3 use under financed emissions
Modeling impact of emissions on different industries and geographies.

11:25-12:00

BIODIVERSITY
Understanding the complex relationship between climate and biodiversity

Biodiversity and deforestation risk as a component of climate
Reviewing all of the factors that come under biodiversity
Quantifying the impact companies have on biodiversity
Incorporating a biodiversity TNFD framework
Overcoming a lack of measurement clarity
Interconnectivity of biodiversity
Commercialization of biodiversity
Nature related impacts of biodiversity
Reviewing COP 15 outcomes on nature

12:00-12:35

NATURE
Incorporating nature related issues as part of a broader ESG framework

Viewing nature as a solution for climate
Leveraging nature as a tool to offset carbon
Using agriculture and sustainable forestry to offset carbon
Technological vs nature solutions to offsetting carbon
Creating the appropriate level of value for nature
Measuring nature and making it investible
Assessing portfolio dependency on nature

01:35-02:20

DATA – PANEL DISCUSSION
Reviewing how climate data has evolved and how it needs to continue to evolve to satisfy requirements

Regulation and SEC disclosure requirements on collecting and measuring data
Understanding how climate data integrates with the strategy of a bank
Distinction between physical and transition risk data
Obtaining consistent structured and unstructured data from across the organization
Overcoming different methodologies used by different providers
Conducting sufficient due diligence on third party providers

02:20-02:50

WATER
Increased assessment of water as a natural resource and a source of risk

Effectively pricing water as an asset
Impact of climate on water scarcity
Water scarcity mapping
Politicization around water control and where it originates from
Impact of water scarcity on supply chain
Reviewing the relationship between water, carbon and land use

02:55-03:30

MODELING
Reviewing the evolution of climate risk modeling and incorporating all climate risk dimensions

Modeling compounding climate risks
Incorporating qualitative and quantitative data
Lack of guidance from regulators
Importance of forward looking data for modeling
Building forward looking earnings forecast into pricing models
Navigating different modeling approaches

04:00-04:35

CREDIT RISK
Understanding the relationship between climate and credit risk and overcoming a lack of historical data

Quantifying climate and environmental risk into credit worthiness assessment
Assessing how climate can be a driver of credit risk
Introducing climate related metrics into credit processes
Factoring climate risk into your lending portfolio
Physical risk implications on lenders
Collaboration between climate and credit risk teams
Incorporating climate data into credit risk models

04:35-05:10

SOCIAL RISK
Reviewing how social risk and adverse impacts relate to climate change risk

Implications of transition risk on people
Offsetting climate catastrophe to protect people
Upskilling of existing employees to understand climate risk
Divergency of climate risk within senior management
Setting climate risk tone from the top
Attracting and maintaining climate related talent
Redeeming, divesting and investing in climate positive solutions
Internal co-ordination