Climate Resilience and Adaptation Investment: The Post-Covid Opportunity

Co-convened by the Lightsmith Group and the Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment (GARI) working group, this session will be a follow-up discussion to the investor and policy panels held during the three-day 2nd Annual FASTR panel sessions held in July 2020 during London Climate Action Week. The panel discussion will be a temperature check on awareness and interest in physical climate risk, as well as in investment opportunities in climate resilience and adaptation – how are investors and other stakeholders viewing risk? Where are the opportunities? And how have both of these changed (or could change) in the midst of Covid-19?

Tuesday, 22 September 2020 | Climate Resilience and Adaptation Investment: The Post-Covid Opportunity, 9:00 – 10:00am NYC time EDT

Keynote Remarks: Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, CEO, Global Environment Facility

Moderator: Jay Koh, Managing Director & Co-Founder, The Lightsmith Group & Chair, GARI Working Group

Panelists:

• Barbara Buchner, Global Managing Director, Climate Policy Initiative
• Carlos Sanchez, Director of Climate Resilience Investment, Willis Towers Watson
• Amal-Lee Amin, Climate Change Director, CDC Group
• Maria Kozloski, Head of Innovation Finance, Rockefeller Foundation