
Agenda
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
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Marika P. Christopher, Senior Director, Responsible Investing Strategy and Solutions, Nuveen, A TIAA Company |
09:35 – 10:20
CLIMATE SCENARIO ANALYSIS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Reviewing the Federal Reserve scenario analysis requirements and guidelines and future wider industry implications
Assessing timelines and what this means for the industry
Benchmarking results of climate scenario analysis
Comparison between Fed, ECB and PRA requirements
Managing varying climate scenario analysis maturity levels
Leveraging scenarios to understand macro implication and physical risks of climate
Managing data limitation for severe stress scenarios
Defining when a normal event becomes a climate type analysis
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Sharon Asaf, Director, Global Climate Risk, Citi |
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
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
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Tobi Petrocelli, Director Environmental and Sustainability Management, MUFG |
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Leah Daly, Senior Director, Environmental, Social, Governance, SVP, Santander |
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Ekaterina Grigoryeva, Environment and Social Development specialist (Global Lead, Financial Sector),The World Bank |
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
12:45-01:45
Lunch break and networking
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
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Alessia Falsarone, SASB FSA |
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
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Readie Callahan, Managing Director, Sustainable Finance and Advisory, Wells Fargo |
03:30-04:00
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
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
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David Carlin, Head of Climate Risk and TCFD, UNEP Finance Initiative |
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
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Christel Saab, Unit Chief, Environmental and Social Risk Management, Inter-American Development Bank |
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
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Markus Lammer, COO, Ultra High Net Worth Business, Credit Suisse (TBC) |
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Si-Yeon, former Chief Legal, Risk and ESG Officer, American Express Global Business Travel |
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Hal Corin, Vice President Sustainability, Global Real Estate, JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
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
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Marina Severinovsky, Head of Sustainability, North AmericaSchroders |
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
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.
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Santosh Mishra, Head of Credit & Climate Modeling and Advanced Analytics,KeyBank |
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
12:35-01:35
Lunch break and networking
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
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Imtiaz Hussain,Managing Director and Deputy Chief Auditor, BNY Mellon |
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Jayme Colosimo, ESG Investment Director, Capital Group |
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
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Eugene Karl Montoya Alessandri, Board Director, Climate Resilience Finance Lead, Waterfront Alliance (TBC) |
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
03:30-04:00
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
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
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Olga Puntus, Executive Director, Global E&S Risk, JPMorgan Chase & Co |
05:10-05:20
Chair’s closing remarks
05:20
End of Congress