Climate Strategy: Latest Developments in TCFD and CDP

Thursday, June 28, 2018
1:00 -2:00 p.m. (ET)

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Cost: FREE for Members, $49 for Non-Members

Investor pressure is mounting for companies to assess and disclose more information on their climate-related financial risks and opportunities. Experts suggest that pressure will grow rapidly over the next three years as major asset managers show increasing support for climate disclosure-related shareholder resolutions. As a result, companies are being driven to enhance their overall climate strategies using the new approaches provided by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures' (TCFD) recommendations.

Attend this panel webinar to learn:

• The emerging business pressures around climate change and financial risk
• Best practices to inform strong corporate climate strategies
• The latest changes to CDP and its (anticipated) new alignment with TCFD
• Suggestions on engaging leaders in key corporate functions to get ahead of the game

Speakers:

• Toby Hanna, Partner; Environmental Resources Management (ERM) North America Air Quality and Climate Change Practice
• Lee Solsbery, Technical Director; Environmental Resources Management (ERM)
• Ariane Burwell, Senior Sustainability & Climate Change Consultant; Environmental Resources Management (ERM)

Speaker Biographies

Toby Hanna

Toby Hanna leads ERM's Air Quality business in North America. He has over 27 years of experience in air quality consulting and engineering which includes: climate change policy, strategy and inventories, air permitting, compliance consulting and agency negotiations.

Lee Solsbery
Lee Solsbery, Technical Director, was one of four ERM lead authors of the TCFD Technical Supplement on Scenario Analysis. He has advised investment firms, pension funds, insurance companies and a wide range of industrial clients on climate risk, carbon pricing, investment screening, carbon offsets, emissions trading, GHG management, climate vulnerability and adaptation. Lee served four terms on the Board of the International Emissions Trading Association and one term on the Technical Advisory Group, World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund. Before joining ERM, Lee worked nine years at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris.

Ariane Burwell

Ariane Burwell has almost a decade of experience providing strategic advice to clients on climate change. She brings hands-on knowledge of the emerging climate change challenges facing businesses and practical approaches to addressing them. Always on the cutting edge – she has effectively leveraged frameworks and tools that drive toward the bigger picture of financial, social, and environmental responsibility- whether it is carbon markets, scenario analysis aligned with the TCFD framework, or responding to the CDP.