Webinar: Climate Risks in the Financial Sector -Nordic Climate Adaptation Seminar Series
Climate change is increasingly shaping financial risks, investment decisions, and long-term economic resilience across the Nordic region. While awareness of climate-related risks is growing, there is still a need for practical approaches to integrating these risks into financial decision-making.
This webinar brings together experts from finance, insurance, the built environment, and the public sector to explore how climate risks—particularly physical risks—can be better understood, assessed, and managed in credit, investment, and planning decisions.
Date: 23 September 2026, 09:30 -12:00 (CEST)
Format: Online webinar, register here
Objectives
The webinar aims to:
- Strengthen understanding of how climate risks affect financial stability, lending, and investment decisions.
- Present practical examples of how climate risk data and modelling are used in financial decision-making.
- Explore the role of insurance, public data, and policy frameworks in enabling climate-resilient investments.
- Identify opportunities for Nordic collaboration to improve risk integration, incentives, and decision-support tools.
Target audience:
The seminar is aimed at: financial institutions (banks, investors, asset managers), insurance companies, real estate and construction actors , public authorities, regulators, and policymakers, researchers and experts working on climate risk and sustainable finance.
Program:
Keynote: Climate change and the future of economic resilience in Europe
Dr. Stéphane Isoard, Economics for Climate and Circular Economy Team Coordinator & Expert, European Environment Agency
Session 1: How climate risks are reshaping finance and investment
Keynote: Integrating climate risks into banking: From risk management to investment decisions
Thorbjørn Lundholm Dahl, Head of Climate & Nature, Danske Bank
Keynote: Turning climate risk data into lending and investment decisions
Karin Grandin, Physical Risk and Climate Adaptation Expert, Swedbank
Session 2: From risk awareness to action: What enables better investment decisions?
Climate risk and Incentives for adaptation from an insurance perspective
Elvira Melin, Sustainability Officer, If P&C Insurance.
Climate Risk Management in the Real Estate Sector
Pirkko Airaksinen, Head of ESG, Sponda Oy.
How can risks be reduced through planning and public investment?
Rosalina M. Wenningsted-Torgard, Project leader and climate adaptation specialist at the City of Copenhagen
Conclusions: Where do we need more cooperation for better decision making and resilient investments?
Panel discussion moderated by Sweco
Nordic Climate Adaptation Programme (NCAP) in collaboration with Sweco
Sweco is leading designing and implementing a series of seminars that provide a dedicated forum for Nordic stakeholders to jointly address complex and cross-cutting adaptation challenges, share experiences and best practices, and strengthen mutual understanding across sectors and governance levels.
The Nordic Climate Adaptation Programme (NCAP) 2025–2027, under the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) aims to strengthen climate change adaptation efforts across the Nordic region, by establishing a platform for cooperation, enhance knowledge exchange and produce strategic policy advice. The programme is grounded in the Nordic countries’ shared ambition to enhance resilience and sustainability in response to climate change and biodiversity loss. Within this framework, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has initiated a procurement for a series of seminars and/or workshops to support the program’s goal of strengthening co-operation on climate adaptation by establishing fora for facilitated dialogue, knowledge sharing, and networking across the Nordic region.
For further information, contact:
Susanna Sepponen, +358 40 1380067, susanna.sepponen@sweco.fi
Silje Lund Sørland, silje.lundsorland@sweco.no
Frida Lindqvist, frida.lindqvist@sweco.se
Merika Mattila, merika.mattila@sweco.fi