Tabea van Hasselt

Climate Resilience Lead Benelux, Zurich Resilience Solutions

Tabea is an environmental engineer and holds a master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

In her role, she focuses on supporting the public and private sector with climate-related hazards and climate adaptation. Tabea helps organizations understand and manage climate risks by conducting global portfolio analyses and on-site assessments of assets at risk. Some of her more recent work includes advising banks, real estate investors, the energy sector, transportation (road & rail) sector and chemical sector on climate risks and adaptation plans for their assets and networks. Additionally, she has worked extensively with the public sector in the Netherlands to draft adaptation plans on a national, regional and municipal level. Advisory for water management, wind, drought and heat are some of her specialties.

Prior to joining the Dutch ZRS climate team she worked as a Water Management & Climate Adaptation Consultant at a large Engineering Consultancy.

All Sessions by Tabea van Hasselt

13:40 - 14:15

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