MC: Federico Mazza – Senior Program Manager – Arc

• What London’s businesses, infrastructure and public services are already facing from extreme heat, flooding and cascading climate impacts.
• Why resilience is now central to UK economic competitiveness, investment confidence and financial stability.
• The need for coordinated, long‑term resilience planning across government, finance and industry, embedding adaptation into investment, risk and capital‑allocation decisions.

Speaker:

• Professor Emma Howard Boyd CBE – Chair, National Heat Risk Commission | Chair, ClientEarth Group Board | Co-Chair, HERA (formerly Climate Resilience for All)

Themes:

• Extreme heat is an “invisible” economic shock already costing hundreds of billions through lost productivity, infrastructure strain, supply‑chain disruption and rising insurance pressures.
• Without major investment in resilience and adaptation, physical climate impacts will increasingly hit long‑term returns, insurability and economic stability.
• Practical resilience solutions are emerging — from heat insurance for women workers to community‑led adaptation models and new capital‑allocation mechanisms that protect vulnerable communities and economic systems.

Speaker:

• Kathy Baughman McLeod – Founder & CEO – HERA (formerly Climate Resilience for All)

Why markets are struggling to manage physical climate risk

Themes:

• Insurance market pressures

• Portfolio exposure

• Supply chain vulnerability

• Lack of comparability in resilience data

Host:

• Dr Nicola Ranger – Executive Director – Earth Capital Nexus

Speakers:

• Sudeshna Raychaudhuri – Senior Specialist, Climate – PRI

• Rob Bailey – Senior Adviser – Oliver Wyman

• Fiona Watson – Vice President of Corporate Performance – WBCSD

• Lucian Peppelenbos – Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investing Thought Leadership – Robeco

• Turning asset-level risk into corporate insight

• Linking physical risk with disclosure frameworks

• Decision usefulness for financial institutions and corporates

Speaker: Felix Preston – Director, Research and Program – Arc

Themes:

• How ResilienceArc builds on and integrates with existing frameworks

• Assumptions behind the methodology, interoperability and visibility of data

• How corporates and Financial Institutions can engage

• What’s needed to build from here together

Host:

• Federico Mazza – Senior Program Manager – Arc

Speakers:

• Karl Mallon – Co-Founder and CEO – XDI

• Roberto Spacey Martin – Lead, Resilience Alignment – Earth Capital Nexus

• Anne Chataigne – Senior Programme Manager, Adaptation and Resilience – IIGCC

• Farheen Altaf – Resilience and Adaptation Lead – CDP

Invitation to:

• Explore the analysis

• Join testing cohorts

• Participate in future workstreams

• Contribute to platform development

Speaker: Meryam Omi – Chief Executive – Arc