Bob Buhr: Climate risks - Upskill yourself
Tuesday 12 September 2023 | 18:30 - 20:30 | Evening Event
Disclosure of a firm’s climate risk is now an expectation; investors are now expected to understand the implications of these risks. However, until now the focus has been firmly in broader macro economic sectors and much less so on the implications of climate risks for firms, or on defining the range of potential climate risks.
This has left practitioners with a skills gap, and little information on how to upskill and implement change in their firm.
Bob Buhr, Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College Business School, will share practical and applicable insights from his framework: in Climate Risks: An Investor’s Field Guide to Identification and Assessment. Bob will present a taxonomy of potential climate risks to firms for financial professionals.
Learning objectives
- Understand the broad and potentially powerful impact of climate-related risks to firms (as opposed to sectors)
- Learn to delineate the difference between the relative certainty of a potential risk, versus its potential timing and scale.
- Use the risk taxonomy framework for assessing and granulating specific climate-related impacts on relevant financial measures margins, cash flow, leverage ratios and asset valuations.
Timings
Registration: 18:00
Event: 18:30 - 20:30
Speakers
Bob Buhr is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College Business School
Bob retired in 2017 from a 30-year career as a corporate bond analyst, and now focuses on areas of specific interest to investors, particularly climate risks and adaptation strategies.
He has published numerous ESG and climate-related reports. He is the author of the recently published Climate Risks: An Investor’s Field Guide to Identification and Assessment (Wiley: 2023.)
Bob received a BA from Ithaca College, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.
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