Jan 23, 2025
Hear from Jo Paisley and Maxine Nelson of the GARP Risk Institute as they look back on key learnings from the latest season of the Climate Risk Podcast.
As we head into 2025, the GARP Climate Risk Podcast kicks off the
new year with a retrospective on the past 12 months, reviewing the
key themes and insights that emerged during 2024.
From soil scientists to policymakers, financial experts to climate modelers, we’ve welcomed a diverse range of guests to share their expertise. This episode revisits some of the key learnings from these conversations and highlights the invaluable advice our guests have shared with risk professionals as we navigate the path to a net-zero and nature-positive future.
Today’s episode will delve into:
- Why we need to think about climate and nature together
- What we learned about the transition to net zero
- The potential global temperature increases we face
- The modelling underpinning all these insights
To find out more about the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR®) Certificate, follow this link: https://www.garp.org/scr
For more information on climate risk, visit GARP’s Global Sustainability and Climate Risk Resource Centre: https://www.garp.org/sustainability-climate
If you have any questions, thoughts, or feedback regarding this podcast series, we would love to hear from you at: climateriskpodcast@garp.com
Speaker’s Bio(s)
Jo Paisley is President of the GARP Risk
Institute, the thought leadership arm of GARP. Set up in
early 2018, the Institute works across all risk disciplines, with
Jo’s focus to date on climate risk management and scenario
analysis, stress testing and operational resilience.
Her career began at the Bank of England where she worked in a
variety of roles across macroeconomics, statistics, supervision and
risk. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk
Specialists Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority,
where she was heavily involved in the design and execution of the
UK’s first concurrent stress test in 2014. She left the Bank in
2015 and joined HSBC as their Global Head of Stress Testing. She
has also worked as an independent stress testing consultant,
advising firms on how to get the most value out of stress
testing.
Dr. Maxine Nelson is a Senior Vice President at the GARP
Risk Institute, GARP’s research and thought leadership
arm, where she focusses on climate financial risk
management.
She has extensive experience in risk, capital and regulation gained
from a wide-ranging variety of roles, including Global Head of
Wholesale Risk Analytics and Head of Capital Planning at HSBC,
significantly expanding counterparty credit risk management at the
UK Financial Services Authority during the last financial crisis,
leading the credit risk team at KPMG London, senior credit risk
consultant at Oliver Wyman, and embedding operational risk
analytics globally at National Australia Bank. Maxine has a degree
in mechanical engineering and a PhD characterizing how best to
apply probability theory to real world problems.