Day Two | October 21
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8:00
Breakfast and Networking
8:50
Chair’s Opening Remark’s
9:00
FINANCIAL MATERIALITY
Panel Discussion: Exploring how to communicate climate-related losses, opportunities, and return on investment in a way that drives engagement and decision-making at the most senior levels
Key topics
- Understanding best practices for engaging senior decision makers by positioning climate risk through the lens of financial materiality
- Avoiding the ‘doom and gloom’ mentality, highlighting climate risk management though it’s ROI
- Transparently communicating accurate financial losses from natural hazard events and climate crises
- Defining governance and ownership of climate risk at the board level to ensure risks are prioritized
 | Amar Rahman,Global Head Sustainability & Climate Solutions,Zurich Insurance |
 | Vincent Triesschijn,Global Head of Sustainable Investment,ABN AMRO |
9:45
EMBEDDING CLIMATE RISK EFFECTIVELY WITHIN THE WIDER ORGANISATION
Highlighting key strategies and challenges for the proper internal communication and integration of climate risk issues
Key topics
- Integrating climate risk into risk appetite and governance frameworks
- Aligning climate risk across credit, operational, market and strategic risk functions
- Creating a common language that resonates beyond sustainability teams
- Measuring whether climate risk is genuinely influencing decisions
 | Patience Manhanga,Director, Climate Risk & Strategy,Sunlife |
10:30
Morning Refreshment and Networking Break
11:00
INCENTIVISING CLIMATE RISK FOR THE FIRST LINE
Discussing best techniques to help incentivise the prioritization of climate risk within the first line of defence
Key topics
- Making climate risk a business responsibility rather than a risk function responsibility
- Linking climate considerations to performance objectives and remuneration
- Embedding climate targets into executive scorecards and RemCo discussions
- Creating accountability mechanisms for lending and portfolio decisions
11:35
ALIIGNING CLIMATE AND NATURE RISK
Panel Discussion: Looking at how to integrate climate and nature risk whilst navigating their different stages of maturity within financial risk frameworks
Key topics
- Defining the relationship between climate and nature risk, their hierarchy and where they should be treated equally
- Navigating the differing maturity levels between the two risk types, and mapping the divergence timeline
- Identifying where climate and nature risk already collide, and how this can be used for more efficient management and progress
- Considering the fundamental differences in climate and nature risk data metrics, and providing solutions for how they could be better aligned and compared
 | Stephane Dees,Head of Climate Economics Unit,Banque de France |
1:20
TRANSITION RISK & NET ZERO
Panel Discussion: Balancing Security, Affordability, and Net-Zero Ambitions
Key topics
- How financial institutions can support energy investment, manage transition risks, and demonstrate credible progress toward climate goals
- Balancing energy security, affordability, and sustainability objectives while supporting the long-term transition to a lower-carbon economy
- Evaluating energy investment opportunities through the lens of risk, resilience, returns, and evolving regulatory and policy expectations
- Measuring financed emissions and transition-related exposures across lending and investment portfolios despite persistent data and methodology challenges
- Developing credible transition plans that connect climate commitments with capital allocation, portfolio strategy, risk management, and measurable outcomes
 | Vera Economou,Sustainable Solutions Group Lead,ING |
2:05
NAVIGATING INSURANCE COVERAGE GAP IN PHYSICAL RISK
Ensuring financial institutions’ portfolios are properly insured and identifying common key gaps
Key topics
- Defining where the most common gaps and communication breakdowns are between banks and insurers
- Determining the best data and communication practices to clearly present how much of portfolios are covered from catastrophic events
- Understanding how to properly estimate the loss-absorbance capacity of your insurer to represent the true economic impact of various physical risk events
- Looking to the future to see in which jurisdictions regulators will be stepping up to mandate insurance coverage and how banks can ensure they are compliant
2:50
FROM TRANSITION RISK TO CREDIT DECISIONS
Panel Discussion: Financing Resilient Infrastructure in the Net-Zero Economy
Key topics
- How transition risk considerations are influencing infrastructure and energy credit decisions.
- Assessing long-term revenue resilience in renewable energy assets, including merchant exposure and changing power market dynamics.
- Integrating climate and transition risk considerations into risk appetite, portfolio construction and capital allocation frameworks.
- Balancing climate objectives with bankability and downside protection requirements when financing infrastructure assets.
 | Jaideep Pathak,Head of Credit (UK) – Energy & Infrastructure,AIB |
3:25
Afternoon Refreshment and Networking Break
3:55
CREDIT PROVISIONING
Embedding Environmental Risk into Credit Provisioning
Key topics
- Assessing where European banks currently stand in incorporating climate impacts into credit risk provisioning and expected credit loss methodologies.
- Examining BNP Paribas’ approach to integrating climate considerations into financial reporting and the operational changes required to support it.
- Exploring how emerging risk factors, including geopolitical uncertainty, interact with and influence climate provisioning frameworks.
- Identifying the next steps for expanding environmental risk frameworks beyond climate to incorporate nature- and biodiversity-related risks.
 | Marc Irubetagoyena,Head of Modelling & Simulating,BNP Paribas |
4:30
ALIGNING CLIMATE RISK WITH MARKET & LIQUIDITY RISK
Highlighting the timeline challenges which arise from aligning climate and liquidity/market risk and determining solutions to overcome them
Key topics
- Outlining the key challenges which arise when aligning climate and liquidity risk, including model maturity, integrating long-term risk and diverging timelines
- Resolving issues with practical and reasonable techniques for de-siloing climate risk management beyond just integrating it with credit risk
- Looking at methods to successfully integrate long-term risks into standard short-term financial management processes
- Understanding the regulatory expectations around this topic and how institutions can ensure they are compliant
5:05
Chairs Closing Remarks
5:10
End of Climate Risk 2026