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Tuesday 7 October 2025
08:00 - 08:50
Registration and breakfast
08:50 - 09:00
Chair’s opening remarks
09:00 - 09:35
REGULATORY CHALLENGES:
Navigating new regulatory requirements related to climate risk
- Assessing the upcoming EBA guidelines on ESG requirements and their implications
- Aligning internal processes with new regulations while staying compliant
- Understanding how climate risks could impact firms’ financial stability
09:35 - 10:25
ALIGNING REGULATORY PERSPECTIVES – PANEL
Balancing compliance with divergent regulatory frameworks between Europe and the US
- Ensuring alignment between different regulatory expectations especially for US based banks with operations in Europe
- Allocating sufficient resources to meet regulatory demands for climate risk
- Understanding the effects of the omnibus package and whether banks will continue prioritizing climate strategies
- Anticipating the shift to a more cautious approach to climate regulations
- Investing in climate stress testing without clear long-term regulatory direction
10:25 - 10:55
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:55 - 11:30
CLIENT PERCEPTION
Understanding the diversity of how climate risks are viewed across different regions.
- Assessing the risks of jurisdictional divergence when engaging with clients across different regions
- Handling inconsistent responses and actions in climate risk management
- Adapting engagement strategies to suit depending on the region
- Navigating the variation in regulatory environments, market conditions and environmental concerns across regions
11:30 - 12:05
INTEGRATION WITH RISK FRAMEWORKS:
Integrating climate risk into existing risk management frameworks and business strategy
- Adjusting traditional risk frameworks to ensure climate-related risks are adequately considered
- Aligning long term climate risk projections with strategies to ensure the insights from stress testing inform actionable decisions
- Establishing clear internal ownership for managing climate-related risks across business units
- Coordinating cross-functional teams to integrate climate insights into financial planning and risk oversight
12:05 - 12:40
INTEGRATION WITH MODEL RISK FRAMEWORKS:
Integrating climate risk into existing model risk management frameworks and business strategy
- Reviewing effective ESG and climate risk validation frameworks
- Determining how climate risks will influence firms’ broader business strategy and operations
- Understand key components to validate climate risk models. Examples in physical and transition risks
- Aligning long term climate risk projections with strategies to ensure the insights from stress testing inform actionable decisions
12:40 - 13:40
Lunch break and networking
13:40 - 14:15
CLIMATE RISK MITIGATION
Balancing risks when building climate risk solutions
- Balancing environmental, economic and social factors when quantifying risks and possible losses
- Developing and implementing successful projects to mitigate climate risks.
- Highlighting the need for nature-based solutions as opposed to traditional infrastructure
14:15 - 15:00
FUNDING CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION PROJECTS – PANEL
Funding climate risk solutions
- Identifying who will finance climate adaptation projects
- Developing a clear strategy to attract necessary funding
- Exploring innovative business models and funding sources
15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
15:30 - 16:05
MODELLING
Navigating climate risk modelling
- Addressing the inability to back-test climate models due to the lack of historical precedent
- Discussing whether to develop internal models or rely on external vendors
- Navigating uncertainty in long-term projections
16:05 - 16:50
TRANSITION RISK – PANEL
Implementing transition risk policies during a varying political and economic landscape
- Assessing risks when transitioning to a low carbon economy in times of uncertainty
- Determining how transition policies will affect clients and businesses to understand their implications
- Planning for future scenarios in the instance of delayed policies such as carbon taxation
- Adapting portfolios amidst uncertain conditions
16:50 - 17:25
TRANSITION FINANCE
Assessing high initial cost vs. long term payoff
- Tackling high costs when transitioning to more environmentally friendly solutions
- Investing in renewable energy technologies for long-term payoff
- Assessing budget constraints and financial difficulties when making investments
17:25 - 17:35
Chairs Closing Remarks
17:35 - 17:40
End of day one and drinks reception
Wednesday 8 October 2025
08:00 - 08:50
Registration and breakfast
08:50 - 09:00
Chair’s opening remarks
09:00 - 09:35
INTEGRATION OF CLIMATE RISK INTO FINANCIAL FRAMEWORKS
Embedding climate risk into financial decisions
- Assessing the impacts of climate change on firms’ portfolios and cost of risk
- Benchmarking climate risk across the sector when accounting for unique risk profiles
- Integrating climate risk analysis into daily operations
- Determining the materiality of climate risks and which risks are most urgent
09:35 - 10:10
INTEGRATION OF CLIMATE STRESS TESTING RESULTS WITH BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Integrating forward-looking climate risk analyses into business operations
- Shifting toward using stress test results for risk management and decision making
- Aligning scenario design with business needs
- Engaging business units and embedding climate risks into financial planning to achieve long-term adoption
- Integrating climate risk into existing assessment frameworks
- Focusing on how climate risk impacts decision making
- Incorporating long run climate risk events into PD models
10:10 - 10:40
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:40 - 11:15
ADVANCES IN CLIMATE RISK INTEGRATION TO CAPITAL MODELS
- Balancing regulatory expectations and model risk management practices on climate risk integration to IRB models
- Case studies: climate risk as a driver of Probability of Default and Loss Given Default risk parameters
- Impact and use case of climate risk integration to regulatory capital models
11:15 - 12:00
SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT – PANEL
Prioritizing climate risk scenarios within stress testing frameworks
- Balancing long term impacts of climate risks and the immediate insights from short term scenarios
- Ensuring climate risk scenarios are both plausible and useful for decision making
- Integrating climate risks into standard stress testing frameworks
12:00 - 12:35
COMPOUND RISK
Shifting toward using short-term scenarios for climate stress testing
- Developing short-term climate scenarios
- Designing meaningful scenarios that represent these risks
- Creating meaningful scenarios for short-term stress testing
- Shifting from a long-term, future oriented perspective to a more immediate focus for stress testing
- Creating variability in results through short term testing
- Developing meaningful short-term climate risk models
12:35 - 13:35
Lunch break and networking
13:35 - 14:10
PROPAGATION OF PHYSICAL SHOCKS
Assessing how different relationships amplify shocks under stress test scenarios
- Evaluating indirect climate risk exposures through customer and supply chain relationships
- Preparing for shock amplification in climate scenario modelling
- Quantifying interconnected financial and operational relationships in climate stress test frameworks
- Mapping business-infrastructure dependencies to assess cascading effects of physical climate risks
- Advancing methodologies to capture the full scope of systemic risks in climate stress testing
14:10 - 14:45
PHYSICAL CLIMATE RISKS
Navigating uncertainty surrounding physical climate risks
- Forecasting physical impacts of climate change during times of uncertainty
- Tackling uncertainty created with long-term projections of climate risk
- Understanding where and how to invest in climate risk mitigation.
- Balancing potential risk with resource allocation
- Highlighting the lack of advancement in physical risk assessment
14:45 - 15:15
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
15:15 - 15:50
NATURE RELATED RISK
Incorporating nature risks into climate risk assessments
- Understanding the importance of the intersection between climate and nature
- Developing specific methodologies to effectively assess and mitigate nature-related risks
- Incorporating nature risks into climate risk assessments
15:50 - 16:25
INTERNAL GOVERNANCE & CLIMATE RISK ACCOUNTABILITY – FIRESIDE CHAT
Defining clear internal ownership of climate risk responsibility
- Enhancing Board and C-suite engagement on climate risk strategies
- Setting up effective escalation processes and internal audit controls
- Creating governance structures to ensure compliance, integration, and oversight.
16:25 - 16:35
Chair’s closing remarks
16:35
End of Climate Risk & Climate Stress Testing Europe
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