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Summary
In 2024 the earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels has intensified climate trends and extreme events globally, with different regions and countries facing distinct climate hazard trajectories.
Join specialists from across S&P Global as we discuss insights from S&P Global Sustainable1’s new Country and Subnational Physical Risk dataset, providing robust decision-grade metrics to support adaption planning for countries and investment strategies for sovereign debt investors, including:
Register now to join the live webinar or receive the replay to hear from thought leaders on:
- Deriving economically representative metrics on country and subnational climate physical exposures
- The key global and regional findings
- Informing portfolio optimization and risk management, entity due diligence, and regulatory reporting
- How the S&P Global Ratings International Public Finance team is incorporating this dataset in their due diligence process
Moderator
S&P Global Sustainable1
Katie Houser
Product Manager, Physical Risk
Speakers
S&P Global
Therese Feng
VP of Research at The Climate Service
Therese Feng is Vice President of Research at The Climate Service, recently acquired by S&P Global.
Therese Feng is Vice President of Research at The Climate Service, recently acquired by S&P Global. She researches the impacts of climate change on financial instruments, focusing on sovereign and municipal bonds, as well as equities. Therese has 20 years’ experience in credit risk assessment, regulatory reporting, and stress-testing at Fitch Ratings, Morgan Stanley, and Jefferies. She has a PhD in environmental economics from Yale.
S&P Global
Tim Hall, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist at The Climate Service
Tim's work focuses on developing physical hazard models related to extreme weather and climate. Prior to S&P Global, Hall was a staff scientist for 20 years at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he worked in climate change research.
Tim's work focuses on developing physical hazard models related to extreme weather and climate. Prior to S&P Global, Hall was a staff scientist for 20 years at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where he worked in climate change research. Hall has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and was a lead author on the 2017 National Climate Assessment Report. As part of his research, Hall developed a tropical cyclone hazard model, which Horizons now uses to assess the climate evolution of hurricane hazard. He also served as consultant to the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and several risk modeling companies, reinsurers, and ILS investors.
Tim holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University
S&P Global Ratings
Rohan Thakkar
Cross-Divisional Emerging Risks, Data and Product Synergies Lead
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