Climate resilience in focus at London Climate Action Week
The Centre for Climate Finance and Investment (CCFI) brought together leaders from finance, insurance, law, technology, policy and academia for an event on Climate Resilience & Economic Security during London Climate Action Week (20-28 June).
Delivered in collaboration with General Atlantic, the event reflected the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment's (CCFI) growing role as a convenor of interdisciplinary expertise on climate risk and finance. Discussions explored how climate-related risks such as extreme weather are increasingly affecting economic stability, infrastructure, and investment decisions, and how organisations are adapting their approach to managing these risks over the long term.
The event opened with a keynote from Abigail Ng, Chief Sustainability Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), who highlighted climate resilience as a key part of protecting economic security. This was followed by a panel discussion chaired by Rowan Douglas CBE, Honorary Practice Fellow at CCFI, and featuring Kemal Er癟evik (Bank of England), Natasha Fowlie (General Atlantic), Paul Munday (S&P Global), Julian Wentzel (HSBC).
A central theme throughout the conversation was the need to integrate climate and nature risks into the core functioning of financial systems, rather than treating them separately. Speakers highlighted the importance of better data, shared standards, and clearer ways of measuring risk in order to improve decision-making across banking, insurance, regulation and investment.
This is what CCFI is all about: a platform that brings together scholarly excellence and leading market participants to deliver effective solutions at scale.
Rowan Douglas commented: We now have our resilience priorities confirmed and an excellent community of financial-sector partners to mobilise with CCFI and 51勛圖厙s . Our mission is to help retrain the invisible hand to value resilience and better protect exposed assets and communities in the years and decades ahead.
In closing remarks, , Director of CCFI and Professor of Actuarial Finance and Academic, said: This is what CCFI is all about: a platform that brings together scholarly excellence and leading market participants to deliver effective solutions at scale.
The event underscored CCFIs role within 51勛圖厙 Business School as a bridge between academic research and industry practice, and highlighted ongoing collaboration with MAS and other partners to strengthen resilience in the face of growing climate challenges.
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