Turning Climate Risk into Opportunity

20 Apr 2022

Main Stage

03:00 PM

Welcome Remarks

03:00 PM - 03:05 PM (5 mins)

03:05 PM

03:05 PM - 03:25 PM (20 mins)

Main Stage

Pricing Climate Risk in Asia

Why should businesses factor climate risks in decision making? What are the different methods for climate risks analysis, and what are other businesses doing to mitigate their climate risks? The speaker will share highlights from a new report on "Pricing Climate Risks in Asia".

Speakers

Sun Tian Yin

Deputy Director

Center for Green Finance Research, Tsinghua National Institute of Financial Research

Sun Tian Yin

Deputy Director

Center for Green Finance Research, Tsinghua National Institute of Financial Research

Dr. Tianyin SUN leads his team to develop approaches and models for quantifying the impact of environmental and climate-related risks on the macroeconomy and the financial system at the Center for Green Finance Research of Tsinghua University. He serves as the associate editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, workstreams coordinator of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), member of the Green Development Expert Committee of the China Insurance Association for 2060 carbon neutrality target, and member of the Global Advisory Committee of GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) program.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Tianyin SUN has worked with the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), ETH Singapore Research Center, ThinkStep AG in Germany, UNEP Collaborating Research Center, and the UN Headquarters in New York.

Dr. Tianyin SUN has published more than a dozen high-profile academic journal articles in the field of environmental risk and green finance, several of which have been featured as ESI "highly cited" papers. His personal Google Scholar citations have now exceeded 2,600.

Dr. Tianyin SUN holds a PhD degree in natural science from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Event Details

Main Stage
19 Apr 2022
20 mins
03:05 PM - 03:25 PM
Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
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03:25 PM

Panel discussion + Q&A

03:25 PM - 04:15 PM (50 mins)