A workshop to raise awareness of, and help financial services, environmental consultancies and geo-spatial innovation make use of advances in Earth Observation climate data.
London is a base for world class financial services, environmental consultancies and geo-spatial innovation. The Space4Climate group partnered with the London Climate Change Partnership to raise awareness of, and help these industries make use of, advances in Earth Observation climate data.
Event summary and materials
The Space4Climate group ran a breakfast briefing event in partnership with the London Climate Change Partnership on 19 December 2017 comprised of briefings on Climate-related Financial Disclosure recommendations and current satellite data platforms and products that can support UK based environmental, geo-spatial and financial services organisations in their delivery of environmental and climate financial risk disclosure services.
Climate-related Financial Disclosure
Implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures –implications for asset owners and financiers
- Dr Ben Caldecott, University of Oxford and chair of the UK Green Finance Taskforce workstream on implementation of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
- Go to Ben’s slides
Satellite climate data platforms and products
New qualities to city sensing and natural capital assessment from space
- Professor John Remedios, Director of the National Centre for Earth Observation
- Go to Professor Remedios’ slides
WISC – A Copernicus Climate Change Windstorm Service for the Insurance Sector
- Alan Whitelaw, CGI IT UK Limited
- Go to Alan’s slides
Combining satellite data with environmental data analytics to manage risk and improve business operations
The Climate Data Store: European gateway to big data on past, present and future climate
- Geoff Busswell, Telespazio-VEGA UK
- Go to Geoff’s slides