This year’s National Conference featured presentations from a high-profile panel of speakers. Following each presentation was a short Q&A session with a conversation at the conclusion of the presentations.
Building resilience.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, provided a short pre-recorded video to introduce the issues addressed at the conference. He spoke about how the finance market is addressing the risks presented by climate change and how the same approach can be used in other industries.
This year's conference focused on three areas:
Leading edge insights into EU public policy changes that may soon impact Australian businesses.
Power generators’ insights into navigating the changes in markets and regulations.
The challenges equities investors face in managing their portfolios, in the face of these changes.
Our Keynote Speaker, Dr Paul Fisher (a former executive of the Bank of England) was joined by Theo Comino, AGL's Manager of Greenhouse and Sustainability and Judith Fox, CEO of the Australian Shareholders’ Association.
MC and panel moderator was Mr Adrian King, Partner in Charge, Sustainability Services, KPMG Australia.
This year's conference focused on the assessment and disclosure of climate-related risk.
Fiona Wild, VP Climate Change and Sustainability at BHP, outlined the work the TCFD has done to date, provided an overview of their recommendations, and a snapshot of what is coming.
Dr Paul Fisher spoke about the wider policy risks from the transition, in particular how the EU is developing a comprehensive policy agenda on Sustainable Finance.
Chloe Munro, former Chair of the Clean Energy Regulator and member of the Finkel Review panel, spoke about how the Australian energy market could tackle the transition risks to a lower-carbon economy.
Dr Karl Mallon, Director, Climate Risk, discussed hostile analytics: how the physical climate change risks to infrastructure and property can now be assessed by investors and competitors, with or without the disclosure of their corporate owners.
MC and panel moderator was Mr Adrian King, Partner in Charge, Sustainability Services, KPMG Australia.
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Keynote speaker, Dr Paul Fisher, was joined by Ms Sarah Barker, Special Counsel at Minter Ellison (in Melbourne) and Mr Maged Girgis, Partner at Minter Ellison (in Sydney), Ms Pauline Vamos, former CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and MC in Melbourne Mr Rob Gell AM, coastal geomorphologist, company director and environmental and communications consultant.
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Dr John Hewson, former politician and businessman will be the Keynote speaker. He will address the implications of this issue on the Australian investment industry.
Sarah Barker, Special Counsel at Minter Ellison will address the potential liability for company directors.
Tim Buckley is an experienced industry analyst and he will speak about the outlook for the first potential victim of this issue - Australian coal exports.
Alex Frankel, experienced communications strategist will address the coming transition to clean energy.
In addition, Climate Alliance will also announce the winners of the 2015 Leadership Awards. The awards recognise Australian business leaders and organisations that have demonstrated leadership by addressing the opportunities or risks presented by climate change. Four categories of business leadership awards are available:
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In addition, Climate Alliance announced the winners of the 2013 Business Leadership Awards. The awards recognise Australian business leaders and organisations that have demonstrated leadership by addressing the opportunities or risks presented by climate change.
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In addition, Climate Alliance announced the winners of the 2011 Leadership Awards. The awards recognise Australian business leaders and organisations that have demonstrated leadership by addressing the opportunities or risks presented by climate change.
The conference included the presentation of the inaugural 2010 Climate Alliance Leadership Awards.
The theme of the conference was Climate Change – the Upside of Action.
