- November 13, 2018
Demystifying Climate Change for Financial Institutions – Part 2
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*breakfast will be served – registration opens at 7:30 am and presentation will begin promptly at 8:00 am so please arrive early.
Climate change is being recognized as a critical issue for financial institutions due to its impact across all economic sectors.
Momentum behind understanding and managing climate-related risks and opportunities is unprecedented and growing each quarter. Investors, banks and insurers are now facing the challenge of defining the relevance of a multi-faceted, broad, complex scientific data. Further still, organizations are being pushed to integrate climate issues into decision-making and ultimately forming an action plan to address risk, reporting, opportunity and strategy for this matter.
What to expect:
Building on the success of our February 2018 workshop, part two of “Demystifying Climate Change for Financial Institutions” will relate the latest trends and thinking on climate change to practical steps for financial organizations through:
- Summarizing recent climate-related advancements and place them in a business context., including recent IPCC report and increased understanding of the urgency of action and impacts on the sector
- A deeper dive into climate-related risk and opportunities (TCFD) and investor-driven trends and expectations, including both physical and transition risk for various sectors, translating this into overarching impacts for financial institutions.
- Case studies will be used to highlight approaches.
Participants will leave the workshop with insights on climate change risk management, avoiding liability and ideas for next steps in helping their organization integrate management of climate change issues in their business.
Who should attend?
This workshop is targeted at director or senior level risk professionals and is applicable to those in the investment/asset management field interested learning more about Identifying and assessing climate-related risks and opportunities.
SPEAKERS:
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Laura Zizzo, Founder and CEO,
Zizzo Strategy
Laura Zizzo is a lawyer and strategic advisor with over a decade of experience leading organizations towards a low-carbon and climate-adapted future through the application of law and policy.
Laura has worked in the strategic research division of the Ontario Ministry of Finance and as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Law and International Relations. She is co-founder of the Climate Change Lawyers Network, a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) committee on Environmental Law, a member of the University of Toronto’s Environmental Finance Advisory Committee, sits on the board of the Clean Air Partnership. She has a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and a law degree from the University of Toronto. Laura is called to the Bar of Ontario.
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Joy Williams, Senior Advisor,
Zizzo Strategy
Joy Williams brings a multi-disciplinary approach to climate change and other environmental, social and governance issues. She made the move from traditional engineering to environmental and climate change issues over 15 years ago and has since worked in government, policy, management and strategic consulting and the financial industry. Joy’s approach to the complexity of these topics is to focus on what is relevant to her client’s strategy and provide pragmatic advice to support their growth.
Joy is a Professional Engineer of Ontario and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.