As the climate crisis forces a change in how institutional asset owners evaluate climate risk, public and private pension funds must react. Panelists will discuss climate-related financial risk to pensions, and the need for pension boards - as long-term investors - to embrace a clearer understanding of that risk.

• Moderator: Jina Penn-Tracy,  Centered Wealth
• Lars Erik Mangset, KLP, Norway 
• Dr. Ellen Quigley Univ. of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
• Steven Feit, Center for International Environmental Law

This event is part of a series of Climate Week NYC presentations focused on diverse strategies for addressing climate-related financial risk in investments as the global economy moves toward a more just, and equitable low-carbon future.

Sponsors: 

• Center for International Environmental Law
• Climate-Safe Pensions Network
• DivestNY
• Fossil Free California
• Friends of the Earth
• MassDivest
• Reclaim Finance
• Stand.earth
• Urgewald
• Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International 
• 350.org
• 350 Silicon Valley