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Registration and networking
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Welcome address: Why are we here?
BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray sets the scene for the inaugural Climate Resilience Forum.
James Murray - Editor-in-chief, BusinessGreen
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Opening Keynote: How bad could it get?
Professor Ed Hawkins, one of the UK’s foremost climate scientists and developer of the famous ‘climate stripes’ infographic, provides an overview of the latest climate science, explores the climate impacts the UK is already experiencing, and discusses the range of scenarios that show what businesses and investors can expect to face in the coming years.
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Panel discussion: From climate impacts to economic impacts
Leading experts explore the web of complex economic, geopolitical, and societal risks businesses can expect to face as climate impacts intensify, and ask how companies can start to enhance their resilience to these fast-changing threats.
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Panel discussion: Mapping climate risks - The first step in building resilience
The first step in building a climate resilience strategy involves understanding the risks an organisation and its value chain is facing. This session will bring together leading experts to provide practical insights on how to effectively map climate-related risks at both the strategic and the asset-level, as well as advice on how to respond to such risks.
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Networking Break
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Presentation and discussion: From climate risk to resilience: A pathway for action
How can organisations move beyond understanding climate risk to deciding what to do, when to act and where to invest? This session will explore how climate adaptive pathways provide a flexible route from risk to action, helping organisations strengthen resilience while aligning investment with net zero, energy security, cost savings, and wider priorities.
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Panel discussion: Everything is connected - How to build societal resilience
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Panel discussion: The role of insurance in building climate resilience
This session will explore how the insurance industry is responding to escalating climate-related risks and increasingly working with clients to build resilience, improve disaster response, and tackle the rising climate-related costs being experienced across the sector.
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Case Study
A leading business provides insights into how it effectively mapped climate risks and harnessed the resulting information to enhance their climate resilience.
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In conversation with: Understanding The Response
David Shukman discusses his new book, The Response: A Story of Fire and Flood in Britain’s New World of Extremes, and reflects on how the UK can better prepare for coming climate impacts and the role of politicians, the businesses, and the media in pushing climate resilience up the agenda.
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Closing remarks and call to action: Next steps? How to push climate resilience up the agenda
BusinessGreen sets out how the Climate Resilience Forum aims to expand in support of evolving corporate climate resilience efforts.
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Networking Reception