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The Climate Change Adaptation Community of Practice (CCACoP) Free
Webinar Series Presents:
Lindene Patton
Lindene is Chief Climate Product Officer for
Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). She is
responsible for product development and risk
management related to climate change. She is a
member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)
Global Advisory Council on Measuring Sustainability, as well as
member of the WEF Advisory Board on Sustainability and
Competitiveness. Ms. Patton serves as the Vice-Chair of the
Climate Change and Tort Liability Sub-Committee of the Geneva
Association. She is a member of the Advisory Council to the
Resources for the Future’s Center for the Management of
ecological Wealth (RFF’s CMEW). She serves on numerous
government and non-governmental advisory boards, including
the Executive Secretariat of the U.S. National Climate
Assessment Development and Advisory Committee; and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Financial
Advisory Board. Ms. Patton is an attorney licensed in California
and the District of Columbia and an American Board of Industrial
Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist. She holds a Bachelor of
Science in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis,
a Master of Public Health from the University of California,
Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School
of Law.
Robert Sandford
Bob is the EPCOR Chair of the Canadian
Partnership Initiative in support of United
Nations “Water for Life” Decade. He also sits on
the Advisory Committee for the Rosenberg International Forum
on Water Policy. He is also the Director of the Western
Watersheds Climate Research Collaborative and an associate of
the Centre for Hydrology, which is part of the Global Water
Institute at the University of Saskatchewan. Bob is also a Fellow
of the Biogeoscience Institute at the University of Calgary. He
sits on the Advisory Board of Living Lakes Canada, the Canadian
Chapter of Living Lakes International and is also co-chair of the
Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW), a national water policy
research group centred in Toronto. Bob is also a member of the
Advisory Panel for the RBC Blue Water Project. Bob also serves
as Water Governance Adviser and Senior Policy Author for
Simon Fraser University’s Adaptation to Climate Change Team.
Jon O’Riordan
Jon is an Associate with the Polis Institute for
Ecological Governance at the University of
Victoria in British Columbia, and the Research
Director for Simon Fraser University’s Adaptation
to Climate Change Team (or ACT). He has a long career with the
public service, starting out with the Federal government in
Water Resource Management, and then with the BC provincial
government in the Ministry of Environment, and completed his
career as a Deputy Minister with BC’s Ministry of Sustainable
Resource Management.
The Climate Resilience Gap: A
Global Insurer's Perspective
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 from 1:00pm-2:00pm EST
Presented by Lindene Patton, with respondents Robert
Sandford and Jon O’Riordan
In North America, extreme weather events appear to be on
the rise, along with associated macroeconomic impacts. A
recent study shows that economies properly insured for
loss are more economically resilient to extreme weather
events - even when loss manifests. However, governance
gaps and other conditions may result in under-utilization or
improper application of risk management tools to improve
resilience.
In this presentation, Lindene Patton (Chief Climate Product
Officer for Zurich Insurance Group) will discuss what we
are seeing from extreme weather event impacts, relative
insured loss and macroeconomic impact status, exemplars
of tools for evaluating costs and benefits of resilience
investments and review some possible actions to improve
economic sustainability in the face of climate change.
Following the main presentation, respondents Robert
Sandford and Jon O’Riordan will provide some Canadian
context.
SPACE IS LIMITED
To register, please email Annette Morand [email protected]
Webinar Partners:
This webinar is being hosted by the Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
Adaptation Resources (OCCIAR) in partnership with the Adaptation to Climate
Change Team (ACT) at Simon Fraser University and the POLIS Project on
Ecological Governance at the University of Victoria.