The discussion that transpired during our recent webinar, Beyond ESG with Climate Stress Testing: Getting Practical at Banks & Insurers, prompted many thought provoking questions. Our thought leaders wanted to continue the conversation by hosting a Q&A session to provide you with deeper insight into exploring the key risks that are arising from climate change.
Register now to have your questions on the topic answered during this live Q&A session.
S&P Global Sustainable1's 'Beyond ESG' webinar series focuses on providing corporate and investors with the tools and insights they need when building and refining their ESG playbooks. Featuring interviews and discussions with experts, decision-makers, and visionaries in the ESG community, these webinars will go beyond ratings and scores to help see the possibilities in building a sustainable future while meeting the expectations of an evolving market.
Lynn BachstetterSenior Director, Global Head of Insurance Solutions, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lynn Bachstetter is a Senior Director and the Global Head of Insurance Solutions at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Full Bio
Lynn Bachstetter is a Senior Director and the Global Head of Insurance Solutions at S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this role, Lynn oversees the operational and strategic management of the Insurance Group. The Group is responsible for delivering company-specific and sector information to 1,000+ clients, including investment banks, asset management firms, global and regional insurance companies, brokers, consultants, and accounting firms.
Prior to joining the firm in 2008, Lynn was a credit ratings analyst with Fitch Ratings covering insurance companies.
Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from Villanova University. Minimize
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Giorgio BaldassarriPhD, Global Head, Analytical Development Group, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Giorgio leads the Analytical Development Group, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Credit Risk Solutions. Full Bio
Giorgio leads the Analytical Development Group, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Credit Risk Solutions. His team includes highly-skilled individuals with multiple qualifications in the financial and quantitative space (FRM, CFA, PhD) and develops all credit risk statistical models that power the Credit Analytics product.
Giorgio’s team developed several statistical models to assess credit risk of public and private companies, more recently including a trade-payment model that was used to succesfully monitor payment behaviour of SMEs during the 2020 pandemic.
On the climate-change front, Giorgio’s team developed two statistical models that estimate the financial and credit risk impact of energy transition scenarios on public and private firms:
Climate Credit Analytics, developed with Oliver Wyman, offers a sector-specific, bottom-up approach for companies operating in carbon-intensive sectors.
Climate Risk Gauge, developed internally, offers a consistent and scalable view across all industry sectors.
Giorgio regularly speaks at international credit risk conferences, webinars and events (RiskMinds, RISK EMEA, IECA). More recently, he authored a paper in the Journal of Energy Markets on the credit risk implications of various carbon tax scenarios (Journal of Energy Markets, Vol 13, number 2, pages: 1-24, June 2020) and spoke at several conferences (IRMC 2020, EDHEC 2020), panel discussions (“Navigating climate risk as a financial risk”) and webinars (“Tackling climate change for banks: the culture, the data and the analytics”) on banks’ challenges to implement climate-related stress testing scenarios, climate-related scenario analysis and credit risk assessment in TCFD reporting, and impact of various carbon tax policies on public companies credit-worthiness. Minimize
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Steven BullockManaging Director, Global Head of ESG Innovation and Solutions, S&P Global Sustainable1
Steven Bullock leads the ESG Innovation and Solutions Team at S&P Global Sustainable1. Full Bio
Steven Bullock leads the ESG Innovation and Solutions Team at S&P Global Sustainable1. As head of this group, Steve has successfully led the development of Trucost's suite of climate and impact analytics products, including Carbon Earnings at Risk, Paris Alignment, Physical Risk and SDG Analytics. Steve has played a leading role on the world’s first public environmental profit and loss “EP&L” account for PUMA and supported GPIF, the world's largest asset owner, on their inaugural TCFD-aligned reporting.
Steve has also contributed to the technical development of the S&P Global Ratings Green Evaluation Tool and the recent S&P Paris-Aligned & Climate Transition (PACT) Indices.
Prior to joining S&P Global Trucost back in 2008, Steve worked as an analyst for a performance management consultancy. He holds a BA 1:1 with honors in Geography and a MSc with Distinction in Sustainable Development from the University of Exeter.
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