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WSP at COP27

Our on-site experts will be advising on implementation solutions at COP27, and sharing their experience and knowledge during leadership panels. Register online to join the following complimentary events, offered virtually to enable those outside the COP to attend.

The Future of Funding the World's Net-Zero Transition

November 9, 2022 / 12:30 PM EET  |  5:30 AM EST

Funding is essential to facilitate the world’s transition to a net-zero economy, yet rapid changes in sustainable finance are creating greater complexity -- and opportunity. As markets reckon with the fact that climate risk is financial and credit risk, this session will explore the profound and sometimes unexpected implications of technology, demands for transparency, and a tougher-than-ever operating environment.

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Your speaker

Stacy Swann, Executive Vice President, Climate Finance, ESG and Sustainable Investment

Hosted by

International Chamber of Commerce

Realizing the Resilience Dividends

November 11, 2022 / 12:30 PM EET  |  5:30 AM EST

Few organizations or parts of the world are fully realizing infrastructure’s “resilience dividend” through new regulations, capacity-building, and effective pricing of climate risk. This session will dive into the rapidly changing state of play in markets around the world and equip participants with new insights and actionable frameworks for addressing challenges ranging from systems-level risk and asset-level modeling to enhancing equity and inclusion. Case studies will consider challenges inherent in diverse economies, scales of operation, and policy contexts, sharing inside knowledge about barriers and paths to hard-won breakthroughs. This candid, cross-sector conversation will spotlight emerging opportunities to capitalize on the potential of infrastructure that is both environmentally sustainable and climate resilient.

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Your speaker

Thomas Lewis, Business Line Executive, Climate, Resilience and Sustainability

Hosted by

Race to Resilience

From Gray to Green: A Lifecycle Approach to Integrating Nature-based Solutions

November 16, 2022 / 4:30 PM EET   |   9:30 AM EST

Nature-based solutions (NbS) have the potential to complement and safeguard grey infrastructure systems, especially in the context of addressing the multi-dimensional challenge of closing the infrastructure gap while concurrently strengthening disaster and climate resilience and working to achieve net zero.

However, NbS for infrastructure struggle to achieve scale and would require that new policies, capacity development and financing be in place. Going from gray to green requires a deeper understanding and better articulation of the multiple benefits of integrating nature in infrastructure planning, development and management. What are the avoided losses generated by enhancing the resilience of infrastructure, what are the services it generated for communities? How can NbS affect the cashflow of asset operators? These costs and benefits need to be measured through data and evidence-based approaches that capture not only economic, but also social, environmental and human health benefits. This solution-focused session will take a lifecycle view of NbS and give practical examples of how to build a business case, how to design hybrid solutions, and how operation and maintenance of blue/green-gray infrastructure should be approached. The session will also point participants to curated resources and ongoing initiatives that they can learn and be inspired from to take action.

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Your speakers

Thomas Lewis, Business Line Executive, Climate, Resilience and Sustainability
Jennifer Brunton, New York Water Business Line Leader

Hosted by

Race to Resilience

WSP Experts in Attendance at COP27

Laurence Blandford, Vice President, Strategy Consulting, Climate Change and ESG

May Faraj, Senior Advisory Director

Olivier Joyal, Executive Vice President, Execution and Strategy, Earth and Environment

Payal Thadani, Climate Resilience and Adaptation Consultant

Peter Hall, Vice President - Global Director for Climate Resilience and ESG 

Sophia Kee, Head of Future Ready – Property and Buildings

Stacy Swann, Executive Vice President, Climate Finance, ESG and Sustainable Investment

Tom Lewis, Business Line Executive, Climate, Resilience and Sustainability

WSP at COP27: Contributing to Sustainable Change
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WSP at COP27: Contributing to Sustainable Change
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