Decision Making and Climate Security for Business

Originally aired January 27, 2016

The fourth webinar in SSF and ASU’s Global Climate Security series examines how business is valuing climate impacts — independent of government planning. Business faces distinct decisions on infrastructure and supply chain dependability, both locally and globally, and must incorporate climate risk assessment and resilience into planning across its supply chain, workforce, and capital investments. Experts from the Paulson Institute, Carnegie, Zurich, and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies share frameworks for integrating climate risk into business strategy.

Speakers

Clark Miller (Moderator)

Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Clark Miller is a Senior Sustainability Scientist at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and an Associate Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. His research focuses on science, technology, and globalization — with a particular emphasis on the design and critical analysis of knowledge systems in support of international and global policy making. He is co-editor of Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance and Arizona’s Energy Future.

Kate Gordon

Vice Chair, Climate and Sustainable Urbanization, Paulson Institute; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Kate Gordon is Vice Chair of Climate and Sustainable Urbanization at the Paulson Institute, providing overall strategy and coordination for the Institute’s climate change, air quality, and sustainable urbanization programs in the U.S. and China. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Wall Street Journal “Energy Expert.” She helped launch and lead the Risky Business Project — co-chaired by Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Tom Steyer — focused on the economic risks the U.S. faces from unmitigated climate change.

Lindene Patton

Former Chief Climate Product Officer, Zurich Insurance; Climate Risk Management Consultant

Lindene Patton is an expert in international risk management, predictive analytics, and climate risk identification and modeling. She served as Chief Climate Product Officer for Zurich Insurance and led Hazard Product and Strategy for CoreLogic. She has testified before both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, held multiple appointments to World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils, and contributed to WEF reports and the Geneva Association working groups on climate and insurance risk.

Nancy Colleton

President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Nancy Colleton is an international leader in environmental communication and information, and President of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). She leads initiatives promoting better understanding of the changing planet, collaborates with senior government and industry executives to increase the use of Earth observations in decision-making, and leads the Alliance for Earth Observations. She co-chairs the Environmental Information Services Working Group of NOAA’s Science Advisory Board.

David Livingston

Associate, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

David Livingston is an associate in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where his research focuses on innovation, markets, and risk. He has worked at the World Trade Organization and UNIDO, consulted on climate change and stranded assets, and teaches energy markets and policy at USC’s Washington, DC center. He was selected as a Future Energy Leader by the World Energy Council and serves on its Task Force on Rules of Trade & Investment.