Event recap: Climate risk to climate resilience: turning insights into actions
海角视频 hosted a panel discussion exploring how organisations across the built environment are responding to increasing climate risk and what it takes to translate insight into action.
The event featured a panel discussion with leaders across complex urban estates and city-scale portfolios, alongside live audience polling to capture real-time perspectives.
One point that came through clearly was that climate risk is no longer a future concern. The scale, severity and immediacy of hazards are increasing, with compounding effects across assets, infrastructure and operations. As a result, resilience is becoming a core consideration not just for sustainability teams, but for investment, planning and operational decision-making.
Key insights:
From assets to systems
Estates such as King鈥檚 Cross and Canary Wharf are operating as 鈥渕ini cities鈥�, where climate risk plays out across interconnected systems. Building-level performance alone is no longer sufficient; resilience must be addressed at estate scale.
Operational resilience is critical
Beyond capital investment, organisations are increasingly focusing on continuity planning 鈥� particularly for critical infrastructure such as energy systems that must continue to operate under stress.
The role of nature
Green infrastructure is delivering measurable benefits, from improved air quality to urban cooling and water management, while also enhancing the user experience.
A shifting business case
Demand from occupiers and stakeholders is growing, but financial justification remains complex. At the same time, nature-based and long-term resilience strategies are beginning to demonstrate clearer value.
Success is the absence of crisis
Measuring resilience remains a challenge, but emerging frameworks 鈥� including those being developed by the City of London 鈥� are starting to address this gap.
These insights reinforce a broader shift as organisations are beginning to demonstrate embedding climate risk into strategy, procurement, and operations in line with evolving policy, regulation and market expectations. Encouragingly, this also presents an opportunity to protect and enhance asset value through more resilient, forward-looking approaches.
What the live polling told us
Our live polling reflected many of the themes from the discussion. Operational disruption emerged as the leading driver for focusing on climate resilience, ahead of regulation, insurance costs and access to investment, underscoring resilience as a business continuity issue rather than just a compliance exercise. Most respondents reported that they are considering or assessing resilience, but only a minority have it fully embedded in policies and projects, pointing to an implementation gap. When asked what would most enable further action, attendees highlighted regulation and legislation, clearer ROI, stronger data and case studies, and better cross鈥慽ndustry collaboration.
The attendees were asked what they think will be the biggest enabler to encourage more action on adaptation:
Our speakers and panellists:
Duncan Price, Global Lead for Sustainability and Climate Change, 海角视频
Laura Plazas, Associate Director, 海角视频
Richard Twinn, Associate Director, 海角视频
Kate Neale, Climate Action Director, City of London Corporation
Dr Macarena C谩rdenas, Senior Advisor, Resilience and Nature, UKGBC
Sophie Goddard, Managing Director ESG, Canary Wharf Group
Sonal Jain, Director of Sustainability and Social Impact, King’s Cross Group
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