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Talking Climate and Sustainability

8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

The Talking Climate and Sustainability podcast series showcases latest thinking from those working at the cutting edge of climate and sustainability action, offering a holistic view of the risks and opportunities, as well as the granular, actionable insights essential for a strategic response to climate and sustainability. From physical, transition and liability climate risks to culture, governance, diversity and inclusion, experts from across the Willis Towers Watson business make sense of the complexities, provide insight on latest developments and practices and discuss practical tools to help organisations adapt and build more sustainable societies and economies.

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Episodes

Episode 8: Changing investment for Net Zero

November 02, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes - 50.5 MB

Transitioning to a zero-carbon economy requires a collective effort where each player weighs up their risk and opportunities. In this episode, Luba describes how investors are mapping out transition risk – not just the risk in moving, but also in hesitating -  as well as the opportunities that emerge when organizations change how they function in a Net Zero economy. With Willis Towers Watson’s recent commitment to Net Zero, Luba explains how this type of shift not only effectively accounts f...

Episode 7: Culture can fix climate change

November 02, 2021 11:54 - 29 minutes - 68.2 MB

Culture determines how an organization behaves. It can be easy to become resigned to “that’s just how things are”. As culture seeps into all that your organization does, it easily becomes the glue that holds everything together - determining structure, relationships and how we collaborate. Climate change needs a holistic approach and impacts on everything we do, just like culture. In this episode, Marisa explains how understanding, measuring, shaping, and encouraging a culture that is effect...

Episode 6: Stewarding now for the future

November 02, 2021 11:37 - 30 minutes - 69 MB

The distinctive and systemic characteristics of climate-related financial risks require a strategic response. Incremental adjustments will fail to produce the scale and rate of change needed for a climate resilient future – what’s needed is transformation in how we steward today. In this episode, Matt expands upon the key themes we saw emerge from our Climate Risk and Financial Stewardship Summit in May 2021, and explains how stewardship can channel Net Zero commitments to make a real differ...

Episode 5: Finance fit for the future

July 09, 2021 10:29 - 26 minutes - 59.7 MB

In this episode, Carlos Sanchez, Director of Climate Resilient Finance at Willis Towers Watson, talks about the recent progress in climate finance around correctly pricing climate risk. Carlos also shares an update on the cross-sectoral work of the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) and how their approach is helping correctly price climate risk, and how CFA UK are developing a certification on climate and investing, training the next generation in understanding how climate ris...

Episode 4: Action for impact

July 09, 2021 10:20 - 24 minutes - 56 MB

Lydia Messling speaks to Paula Pagniez, Director at the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, about how we are beginning to see actions have a real impact –particularly facilitated by innovative insurance products. When we are able to properly understand and convey exposure and vulnerability to risk, we can help to identify tools and actions that can have a lasting impact upon building resilience – sometimes these are very simple solutions. These solutions are being implemented...

Episode 3: Chronicles of Capital Science and Policy (part 2 – It takes a village)

January 20, 2021 17:19 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MB

In this latest episode of the Talking Climate and Resilience podcast series, Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, explores the challenges of an orderly transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy - from massive industrial transformation to economic dislocation. As climate change becomes increasingly integrated into mainstream financial decision making and organisations respond to their own risks, navigating an orderly transition will depend...

Episode 2: Chronicles of Capital Science and Policy (part 1 – Genesis)

January 20, 2021 17:08 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MB

In this latest episode, Rowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson, explores the challenges of an orderly transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy - from massive industrial transformation to economic dislocation. As climate change becomes increasingly integrated into mainstream financial decision making and organisations respond to their own risks, navigating an orderly transition will depend on climate risk and the wider implications for commu...

Episode 1: Talking Climate and Resilience

November 02, 2020 22:34 - 22 minutes - 52.2 MB

Welcome to the first episode of Talking Climate and Resilience with our host Nidia Martinez, Director at the Climate and Resilience Hub. In this episode we will be speaking with John Haley, the CEO of Willis Towers Watson. John will be discussing why climate change is a responsibility that we all share globally. Moreover he elaborates how Willis Towers Watson can help to quantify and manage risks that come with climate change. This can mean anything from helping our clients understand extrem...