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Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO, United States May 12-14, 2025
Speaker

Mr. Ross Beardsley

Managing Consultant Ramboll

Ross Beardsley is a Senior Managing Consultant at Ramboll who leads climate change risk assessments for public and private sector clients across the globe. He has conducted numerous physical climate change risk assessments in support of risk disclosure and resilient design ranging from global portfolio evaluations for multinational corporations to facility-level risk assessments for commercial real estate, data centers, energy assets, manufacturing and logistic facilities, ports, utilities, and other industrial facilities. As the director of Ramboll’s climate risk tool, HazAtlas, Ross develops cutting-edge digital solutions to help clients identify their climate-related risks and design adaptation measures to promote resilience. He specializes in distilling large and complex global, national, and regional climate datasets into clear and accessible information that enables his clients to understand their risks and implement strategies to increase their resilience to a changing climate.

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Thu May 15 11:15 AM — 12:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

Climate Risk Management: Three Approaches to Reducing Asset and Portfolio Climate Risk

Evaluating physical climate risks and scaling up resilience measures across a portfolio is a daunting task due to the complexity of climate impacts, diversity of asset types and designs, varying geographic exposures, and difficulties in determining the return on investment. However, factoring physical climate risk data and resilience measures into asset management plans and capital expenditure cycles is critical to protecting assets at scale, and multiple approaches have been developed to make this information an actionable part of operations. This session will explore several strategies developed for real estate developers, owners, and investment trusts that can be implemented across large, diverse portfolios, and include perspectives from risk assessment experts and real estate firms that have implemented these approaches.
 
Speakers
Chris Pyke; Chief Innovation Officer; GRESB
Gretchen Hancock; Operating Principal - ESG; Global Infrastructure Partners
John Thigpen; Vice President; Sustainability Services, JLL
Kim Pexton; Senior Vice President; Sustainability, JBG SMITH
Ross Beardsley; Managing Consultant; Ramboll
Katie Wholey; Director?, Community Resilience; Enterprise Community Partners
Reid Morgan; Manager, Member Relations; GRESB 
 
Separate ticket required. This session is part of ULI’s Resilience Summit. Purchasing a ticket to ULI’s Resilience Summit provides access to this session and all other ULI Resilience Summit sessions