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Episode 2: How to power climate resilience

The race is on to reach the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming to 2°C or below – but our survival doesn't just depend on cutting emissions. Financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson talks to Amar Rahman, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of Climate Resilience for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and Dr David Lallemant, Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has developed models to better understand and reduce disaster risk. They explore what adaptation and resilience looks like in the context of climate change, and the technologies that could save us.

Listen to our first episode: Using Risk to Build Resilience

We are living in an age of unprecedented change. As we confront familiar challenges such as inflation and rising interest rates, how can we minimize their impact on the modern world? Financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson sits down with global risk experts, John Scott, Head of Sustainability Risk at Zurich and Dr Sarah Gordon, CEO at Satarla, to explore how these challenges can offer an opportunity to build resilience – and even change for the better.