BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19710101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19710101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210907T163000 UID:https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/?post_type=event&p=56007 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/London:20240329T044229Z LOCATION:Online (via Zoom) DESCRIPTION:
Hosted by Rebecca Elliott\, Department of Sociology and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE
Moderator
Daniel Beunza\, The Business School
Emily Bugden\, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk\, University of Cambridge
Tanya Fiedler\, University of Sydney
Nick Robins\, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, LSE
Matthias Täger\, Department of Geography & Environment / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, LSE
Climate risk entails all risks for financial assets and the financial system posed by the physical impacts of climate change and the societal reactions to climate change. The understanding of said climate risk within finance has deepened and matured tremendously since the first trailblazing reports on the costs of climate change and the carbon bubble. This enhanced understanding is showing in increasingly sophisticated models and metrics used to assess and measure climate risk by a range of actors from private investors to credit rating agencies and central banks. This quantitative model-based approach to climate risk resembles in many ways established approaches to other financial risks. While the design\, diffusion\, and use of such more traditional risk assessment models within finance have been subject to sociological investigations producing valuable insights into the shortcomings and unintended consequences of said models\, a similar effort regarding climate risk models is still lacking.
This panel brings together empirical work on climate risk assessment and first sociological theorisations of climate risk modelling and assessment to make a first step toward a sociology of climate risk. Short presentations of original research will be followed by a panel discussion and an open Q&A session.
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