8:00 a.m. PST San Francisco
11:00 a.m. EST New York
4:00 p.m. GMT London
5:00 p.m. CET Central Europe
Location
Virtual Platform
Overview
Climate change is driving transformation across capital markets, requiring participants to consider severe weather events, the energy transition, policy shifts, and other climate-related risks and opportunities while pushing against the limits of what’s knowable.
A recent survey by the MSCI Sustainability Institute found that 57% of capital-markets participants believe climate-related physical risks are more severe and arriving faster than current scenarios suggest. What do you think?
Join us for an exclusive webinar co-hosted by the MSCI Sustainability Institute and MSCI’s Climate Risk Center on January 29, 2025, where we will:
Explore what market participants currently expect to be our climate future, backed by insights from 350+ global investment and risk professionals.
Compare the market view with widely used climate scenarios in the financial industry.
Discuss practical steps to make sense of different climate scenarios and start using them in investment analysis.
We are delighted to share that Claudio Baccianti, an economist with the Deutsche Bundesbank, will join the conversation to offer insight into the development of the latest scenarios from the Network for Greening the Financial System.
Additionally, David Carlin, former head of risk at the UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative and founder of advisory firm D.A Carlin, will share his perspectives on what all this mean for financial practitioners—and the steps we can take to help shape our climate future.
Claudio Baccianti is an Economist at the Sustainability Hub of the Deutsche Bundesbank. He has worked on climate risks and the macroeconomic impacts of climate policy for over 13 years across various sectors, including the finance industry and think tanks. Claudio holds a PhD in Economics from Tilburg University and a MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Essex.
Russ Bowdrey
Executive Director, MSCI Climate Risk Centre
MSCI
Russ Bowdrey is an Executive Director at MSCI’s Climate Risk Centre, where he spearheads the development climate scenario engines. His work is essentially quantitative storytelling, integrating macroeconomic data, energy and technology trends and financial asset performance to create decision-useful tools for investors navigating climate-related risks. Collaborating across MSCI’s research, engineering, and client teams, Russ ensures innovative solutions that bridge the gap between complex models and actionable insights.
With over 17 years of experience spanning investment strategy, climate risk, and actuarial consulting, Russ has spent half of his carerer focused on climate risk integration in financial decision-making. At Ortec Finance, he led a client service team that supported over \$4.5 trillion in assets under management. At Aviva, he pioneered climate risk modeling and TCFD-aligned reporting, helping shape sustainable investment practices.
Russ holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Cranfield University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA). Outside of work, he enjoys painting, fly fishing, and exploring decision-making under uncertainty through poker and behavioral economics. His passion lies in leveraging finance to drive global progress on climate challenges.
David Carlin
Founder
D. A. Carlin and Company
David Carlin is an acknowledged authority on climate change and its implications for the financial system. He is the founder of D. A. Carlin and Company, an advisor to governments, corporates, and financial institutions on climate and ESG topics. He has authored numerous reports that provide practical tools for financial actors looking to address climate change and has run capacity-building programs for financial institutions and supervisors around the world.
David led the creation of UN Environment Programme’s- Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)’s Risk Centre as the head of Risk. Over the past years, he has worked with over 100 global banks, investors, and insurers on climate scenarios, climate risk assessments, and climate governance.
He has been an advisor to UNEP FI’s TNFD pilot program on nature and biodiversity related risks, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), and the Glasgow Financial Alliances for Net Zero (GFANZ). David is also a contributor to Forbes and a senior associate at Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) as well as a visiting fellow at King’s College London.
David has worked as a Principal in Finance, Risk, and Public Policy for Oliver Wyman and in Model Risk Management for PNC Bank. His background is in quantitative modeling and decision science.
James Edwards
Executive Director, MSCI Climate Risk Centre
Linda-Eling Lee
Founding Director and Head of the MSCI Sustainabililty Institute
Linda-Eling Lee is the Institute’s founding director and a leader in the field of sustainable finance.
She most recently led global ESG and climate research at MSCI, where she built one of the world’s top teams of analysts dedicated to understanding long-term drivers of sustainable value. Linda has authored multiple research papers on sustainable investing and twice been named by Barron’s to its annual list of the Top 100 Women in Finance. She serves as a director of US SIF: Sustainable Investment Forum and is a Fellow of the Finance Leaders Fellowship of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Linda joined MSCI in 2010 following the acquisition of RiskMetrics, where she led ESG ratings research and headed consumer sector analysis. She received her doctorate in organizational behavior from Harvard University, holds a master’s from the University of Oxford, and has a bachelor’s in East Asian Studies from Harvard College.