Who likes expensive beer?

Tue 05 Sept 2023 -
08:30 - 09:30

This talk covers how to build a sustainable, financial and economic system to deliver a future worth living in. The session will look at the big picture, including:

  • why sustainability is better for beer prices and asset returns
  • macro-economic and real-life impacts of climate-scenarios tipping points
  • physical climate risk tipping points and positive socio-economic tipping points
  • the intersection with climate, messages from COP15
  • implications and opportunities for actuaries
  • impacts for actuarial work and opportunities for actuaries to contribute to solutions.

Speakers: Sandy Trust, Kaisie Rayner and Rosanna Harvey-Crawford

Chair: Sarah Ivory

Featured speakers

Sandy is the past chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Sustainability Board and is a member of the International Actuarial Association’s Climate Change and Sustainability Committee. He is the lead author of a series of collaborative research reports that bring together science and risk, seeking to improve policymaker-level risk management.

The latest report, ‘Parasol Lost: Recovery plan needed’, calls for a Planetary Solvency recovery plan to stabilise the climate and support humanity to find its balance with nature.

Sandy’s personal mission is to help reconnect finance and the economy to nature and the biosphere to deliver a future worth living in.

He works with investors and advises a number of regulatory and policymaker groups on these topics.