Upcoming Events

Recent years have witnessed exceptional growth and technical progress in the offshore wind energy market within the UK and Europe. Both have consistently channelled significant investment into offshore wind projects, reinforcing their position as global industry leaders. With a diverse range of operational and planned offshore wind farms, coupled with ongoing technological innovations, cost efficiency improvements, and a growing commitment to sustainability, the UK and Europe have emerged as central players in the global shift towards cleaner and more sustainable energy sources.

City & Financial Global’s 2nd Annual Biodiversity and Nature Markets Summit builds on the success of our Biodiversity Summit last year, which was widely regarded as providing a valuable introduction for financial institutions and corporates to the risks posed by biodiversity loss, and the opportunities presented by nature-based solutions.

In the UK as elsewhere, we are seeing extreme weather conditions, which will continue to worsen as we approach 2050, and perhaps beyond. Against this background, financial institutions of all kinds – banks, asset managers and insurers – need to put in place climate adaptation plans as part of their overall business continuity planning. These need to include the direct impact of climate change on running their own businesses and the indirect impact of the changing climate on borrowers, investee companies, policy holders, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders.