Florida Climate Change - Alex Sink, Chief Financial Officer; Charles Bronson, Commissioner of Agriculture

Coastal inundation from hypothetical increases in sea level
GFDL/NOAA

 

SESSION THREE


GUEST SPEAKERS

The Financial Impacts for Florida
 

Mindy Lubber (Ceres)
Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres, the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance that coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and opportunities posed by climate change.  INCR activities include organizing the Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the UN Headquarters, hosting fiduciary training programs for pension fund trustees, producing research reports to improve investor understanding of climate risk, and coordinating engagement of its members with companies, money management firms, and policy makers.  Ms. Lubber has held leadership positions in government as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; in the financial services sector as Founder, President and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds; in the private sector as the President of an environmental law and policy consulting group; and in the not-for-profit sector for more than a decade leading environmental and public interest law organizations, including the National Environmental Law Center, which she founded. She was the Senior Advisor and Communications Director to former Governor Michael Dukakis, and for a decade, held leadership positions with the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), including Chairwoman of the Board of Directors.  Ms. Lubber holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

Lewis Milford (Clean Energy States Alliance)
Lewis Milford is President of Clean Energy Group (CEG) and Executive Director of Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA). Prior to founding CEG, Mr. Milford was Vice President of Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s leading environmental organization where he directed the Energy Project. Previously, he practiced environmental law for a private firm and as the New York Assistant Attorney General. He is co-author of The Wages of War, a social history chronicling America’s treatment of its military veterans, published by Simon & Schuster. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College.

Dr. Robert Muir-Wood (Risk Management Solutions) 
Dr. Robert Muir-Wood
is chief research officer at RMS. Dr. Muir-Wood has more than 20 years of experience developing probabilistic catastrophe models and has collaborated with the insurance industry over the past 15 years to improve catastrophe analysis accuracy. Dr. Muir-Wood received his degrees and was an Earth Sciences Research Fellow at Cambridge University.

"The Impact of Extra Tropical Transition on Hurricane Risk in the Northeast U.S.," 26th Annual Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, May, 2004

"Climate Chaos," Risk & Insurance, March 1, 2004