MAGNY

Monthly Luncheon & Discussion

Friday, March 8, 2019

Climate Change & the Muni Sectors: How Are Actors in Each Sector Planning Ahead?

Date: Friday, March 8, 2019

Time: 11:30 am - 2:00 pm

Location: Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, NYC

Moderator: Rahul Jain, S&P Global Ratings

Speakers: 

Damon Burns, Chief Executive Officer - The Financial Authority of New Orleans - Biography

Jainey Bavishi, Director – Office of Recovery and Resiliency at New York City Office of the Mayor - Biography

Jeremy Alain Siegel, Partner – BIG Architects - Biography

Details: 

According to the 2018 National Climate Assessment (NCA), global warming, rising sea levels, and increasingly frequent extreme weather events are expected to disrupt and damage critical infrastructure and property in major US population centers in the coming decades.  The epicenters of today’s major US communities emerged over the past three hundred years based on geographical and environmental advantages that enabled populations in those regions to flourish and grow. The climates of many of these regions are rapidly changing, resulting in more frequent flooding, droughts and wildfires. Adapting to these climatological changes will require significant investments to ensure the continued livability and economic dynamism of these regions.  

Mitigating the impact of climate change has moved from the planning to the adoption phase for several of the most exposed municipalities. Adoption of significant changes to infrastructure will require well thought-out strategies that include mechanisms for financing resilience initiatives and planning for state and federal responses to the human and economic costs posed by climate change.

Please join our distinguished panel of issuers and resilience experts in a discussion on how they, their financial advisors and their clients are confronting this complex challenge in ways that minimize the financial burden on their communities and the risk to municipal investors.

Cost: $75 for members, $85 for non-members.

Registration is now closed.