Day Two | February 24
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8:00
Breakfast and Networking
8:50
Chair’s Opening Remarks
9:00
CLIMATE RISK AS A CORE FINANCIAL RISK
PANEL DISCUSSION: Pricing Climate Risk into Capital Allocation, Lending & Portfolio Decisions
Key topics
- Assessing how climate, nature and resilience considerations are influencing capital allocation, lending strategies and portfolio construction decisions
- Evaluating whether existing pricing, underwriting and credit-risk frameworks adequately reflect long-term climate and environmental exposures
- Determining how resilience and adaptation investments should be incorporated into investment decisions, risk appetite frameworks and client engagement strategies
- Balancing short-term commercial pressures against long-term asset viability, transition readiness and portfolio resilience
- Identifying how boards, risk leaders and investment committees are embedding climate risk into strategic decision-making processes
 | Antonio Rendina,Director, ESG & Reputational Client Risk Management,Standard Chartered |
9:45
CREATING CREDIBLE TRANSITION PLANS
PANEL DISCUSSION: Understanding how organisations can translate transition ambitions into investable strategies and financing solutions
Key topics
- Assessing what distinguishes a genuinely credible transition plan from just a compliance exercise
- Evaluating how investors and lenders are scrutinising transition targets, capital expenditure plans, delivery pathways and financing requirements when allocating capital
- Examining how the new LMA Transition Finance Guidance is helping lenders and borrowers structure transition finance transactions and assess transition credibility
- Identifying the challenges of selecting meaningful KPIs, targets, monitoring mechanisms and reporting frameworks that support both financing objectives and stakeholder confidence
- Exploring how evolving expectations around transition planning, governance, greenwashing risk and regulations such as CSDDD are influencing corporate strategy, investor scrutiny and market adoption
| Vaughn Tyrell,Director – Sustainable Finance, HSBC |
| Alice Melvin,Associate Director, Sustainable Finance & Transition,Lloyds Bank |
| Pauline Hascoet,Vice President, Sustainable Finance Solutions,Mizuho |
10:30
Morning Refreshment and Networking Break
Operational Risk & Resilience
Tower Suite 3
Innovation & Automation
Tower Suite 1
Regulation & Standards
Tower Suite 2
11:00
CLIMATE LITIGATION, GREENWASHING AND REPUTATIONAL RISK
Managing legal, regulatory and stakeholder scrutiny in an increasingly complex operating environment
Key topics
- Examining emerging climate litigation trends and their implications for financial institutions, investors and corporates
- Assessing the risks associated with greenwashing, greenhushing and transition-washing as scrutiny continues to increase
- Evaluating governance practices that support transparency, credibility and stakeholder confidence
- Identifying best practices for communicating sustainability and transition ambitions in a rapidly changing regulatory environment
| Szymon Dejk,Sustainability and Impact Legal Counsel | Director,UBS |
11:35
QUANTIFYING THE RISK
Inside the models – the data, methods and metrics behind credible climate risk quantification
Key topics
- Comparing the leading methodologies and metrics for quantifying climate and nature-related exposure at asset, counterparty and portfolio level – and where they still disagree or fall short
- Examining the practical limitations of current scenario analysis and stress-testing approaches: data gaps, model assumptions, and where results diverge across providers
- Exploring what “next-generation” climate and nature risk models need to solve for that current ones don’t
- Identifying how risk teams validate, benchmark and stress-test third-party climate data and models before relying on them for internal decisions
- Translating model output into something non-specialists (credit committees, boards) can actually interrogate and trust
12:10
Lunch Break and Roundtables
1:20
SUPPLY CHAIN & VALUE CHAIN RISK
Managing Climate, Nature and Social Risks Across Increasingly Complex Global Value Chains
Key topics
- Assessing how geopolitical instability, climate disruption and evolving regulations are reshaping supply-chain risk management and investment decisions
- Evaluating how organisations are identifying and managing environmental, social and human rights risks across increasingly complex value chains
- Examining how regulations such as CSDDD are influencing supplier engagement, governance frameworks and due diligence expectations
- Identifying strategies for building more resilient supply chains while balancing cost, competitiveness and operational continuity
| Anna Richardson,Global Head of Supply Chain Sustainability & Operational Governance,HSBC |
1:55
ADAPTATION AND THE FUTURE OF INSURABILITY
PANEL DISCUSSION: Examining how financial institutions can protect asset values, maintain insurability and unlock investment opportunities in a more physically exposed world
Key topics
- Assessing how physical climate risks are reshaping the investability, bankability and long-term value of assets, sectors and regions
- Exploring how adaptation finance, resilience-linked products and innovative financing structures are supporting investment in resilient infrastructure, supply chains, food systems and water security
- Evaluating how insurers’ pricing and coverage decisions are influencing lending strategies, investment decisions and capital allocation frameworks
- Identifying how financial institutions can translate physical climate risks into investable opportunities, risk-adjusted returns and long-term competitive advantage
- Examining how lenders, insurers, investors and policymakers can work together to maintain insurability and accelerate investment in climate-resilient assets and infrastructure
2:40
Afternoon Refreshment Break
3:10
NATURE RISK AND BIODIVERSITY
Understanding the economic and financial implications of nature loss
Key topics
- Assessing how biodiversity loss, water scarcity and ecosystem degradation are creating new financing, investment and portfolio management challenges across sectors
- Examining emerging opportunities in nature finance, natural capital, biodiversity-linked investment strategies and resilience-focused financing structures
- Understanding how TNFD, ISSB and evolving nature-related disclosure frameworks are influencing investor expectations, financing strategies and market development
- Identifying practical steps financial institutions can take today to incorporate nature-related risks and opportunities into lending, investment and sustainable finance programmes while markets continue to mature
| Debbie Cousins,Director Operations, Environment & Sustainability Department,EBRD |
3:45
BLENDED FINANCE: UNLOCKING PRIVATE CAPITAL AT SCALE
Examining how public-private partnerships can accelerate investment into transition, adaptation and resilience projects
Key topics
- Assessing how blended finance structures can attract private capital to infrastructure, adaptation and nature-based projects
- Examining the role of DFIs, multilaterals and public-sector partners in scaling investment and enhancing project bankability
- Understanding how institutions are assessing credit quality, concentration risk and measurable impact within blended finance structures
- Identifying the practical barriers preventing wider adoption, including project pipeline constraints, data gaps, complexity and internal approval hurdles
4:20
Chair’s Closing Remarks
4:30
End of Event