On March 31, 2021, at 19:00 CET - 20:15 CET, Brookings is hosting a webinar "The rising impacts of climate change: Implications for science, law, capital markets, and policy".
This webinar is a joint event between the Markets at Risk initiative, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Columbia Law School's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. The physical effects of climate change present risks across society. Increasingly, these varied perils, from hurricanes to heat-stress, wildfires and many others, are being understood through the lens of financial risk management.
Many financial regulators outside the U.S. have similar perspectives, and there is rapidly growing pressure on financial actors to respond. The analytical tools needed to understand these financial risks from the physical impacts of climate change are improving rapidly and a new face of financial market regulation and response is coming into focus. This webinar will explore these issues and experts in climate science, finance, and the electricity sector will consider the question at the heart of their research: What can the scientific, legal, energy, and financial sectors do to help the nation prepare for the growing impacts of climate change?