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Nick Spencer
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Working with insurers, pensions and actuaries to develop solutions for a world at risk.
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THIS WEEK

THE POINT in the North…

My touring show comes to HEXHAM, NORTHALLERTON and ALNWICK

Details and tickets at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates
March 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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40 years later, this is stunningly timely – and may be a key to our way out: Doris Lessing on the prisons we choose (not realizing we are choosing) to live inside
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on Redeeming Humanity
This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-r…
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February 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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What if the dice roll meant 8oC warmer?
Are finance executives engaged in planet-reality risk & opportunities?

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If there were a 1 in 6 chance of 8°C degrees of warming, what would you do differently?
I’ve been getting this wrong. I’ve been talking about ”planet reality” for the last couple of years—outlining the gaps between climate science and the commonly used climate scenarios across the financ...
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February 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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“it wanted to work with regulators and other market participants to clarify guidance for climate scenario analysis based on the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' Planetary Solvency report among others”

Excellent stuff!

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profpensions.bsky.social Professional Pensions @profpensions.bsky.social · Feb 4
Trustee Sustainability Working Group sets out key priorities for 2025

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February 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Trump could be the first post-1.5C president

What could this mean for climate risk and response?

His reaction to the LA wildfires gives us a clue...

Some post-inauguration thoughts with @jamesgyke.bsky.social in @climate-risk.bsky.social's New Climate Reality

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Derailment doom loops and Trump as the first post-1.5°C president
Another example of how the consequences of climate change impact our ability to tackle its causes
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January 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Doughnut Economics survived Trump I - in fact it went from being a book of ideas to a buzzing worldwide community of practice. If you want to be part of turning a compelling global vision into local action, join us: it’s time to connect and learn together. Pls RT. doughnuteconomics.org
image of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, with photographs of people in many countries and contexts holding workshops about turning it into local action.
January 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Actuaries speaking out on climate change. 🌍 💰 🔥

Good!

What does this mean for the planet, for your clients, and for your children…?

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January 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🌍 What is our planetary risk report: what would you do if given the responsibility for managing planetary risks to to keep us solvent- sustainable as life-capsule travelling through space? 🚀
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Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Current climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Here's the report: 'Planetary Solvency - finding our balance with nature'.

Authored by a @exeter.ac.uk team led by Sandy Trust. Published by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
January 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The Financial Times has a thoroughly researched and well-written report on the risk of a major ocean circulation change in the Atlantic as a result of #globalwarming. Worth reading! #AMOC
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January 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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An interesting climate blog on derailment risk - worth a look especially if you’ve not heard about it before!
Thanks to @laurielaybourn.bsky.social for writing!

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Guest blog: Could the consequences of climate change frustrate our ability to tackle its causes? | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
What if the physical impacts of climate change do not accelerate our progress to a stable climate future, but act as a barrier against it?
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January 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Good Nature piece on the debate about accelerating warming in recent years, and what exceptionally high 2023 and 2024 temperatures might mean: www.nature.com/artic...
Earth shattered heat records in 2023 and 2024: is global warming speeding up?
Nature - Nature examines whether the temperature spike is a blip or an enduring — and concerning — trend.
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January 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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This provides simple, honest insights combined with positive action one of the best, and one of the few I recommend and keep subscribed to.
@katharinehayhoe.com takes the Texan can-do attitude and applies it to climate science.
katharinehayhoe.com Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 2
Here's a New Years resolution that will keep on giving!

Every week, my free Talking Climate newsletter shares good news (yes there is lots of it), not so good news, and something you can do about climate change.

Subscribe via email (bit.ly/41UbqMf) or substack (www.talkingclimate.ca)
Opinion | This New Year, Resolve to Green Up Your News Feed (Gift Article)
These organizations are capturing local and regional news about climate and environmental justice that often flies under the national radar.
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January 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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“It is incumbent on governments to think the unthinkable.”

It was great talking with @charliecooper8.bsky.social at @politico.eu about the threat of tipping points and how governments can respond

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Wanted: An early-warning system for the end of the world
Some experts believe we could hit catastrophic climate ‘tipping points’ in a matter of years. The U.K. government, with a bit of help from Dominic Cummings, is trying to prepare.
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December 31, 2024 at 9:17 AM
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📣 Do financial service firms "understand climate scenarios’ challenges and limitations, communicate these clearly, and consider the implications of worse-case scenarios that may be much more severe"? ⚡
See posting on findings of the IFoA Climate Scenarios committee www.linkedin.com/posts/nickxs...
Nick Spencer on LinkedIn: Findings of the IFoA Climate and Sustainability Scenarios Committee |…
📣 Do financial service firms "understand climate scenarios’ challenges and limitations, communicate these clearly, and consider the implications of worse-case…
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December 17, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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With the deadline for paying back historic gaps in NI records (to boost your state pension) approaching rapidly, my column this week explains what you need to do: www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...
I have a 17-year state pension shortfall - should I buy top-ups?
The Government said if I pay before April they can give me 10 years' stamps back. I get £145 a week in state pension, I've never been on benefits and I worked for 53 years.
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December 16, 2024 at 8:19 AM
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Growing conversation on www.linkedin.com/posts/nickxs... for Breakthrough: National Centre for Climate Restoration report "Collision Course". The science reflects my other reading & politics were compellingly advocated. Tipping point consequences and potential warming accelerations are terrifying.
Nick Spencer on LinkedIn: Executive Summary: What does recent evidence reveal? | 12 comments
🌡️ Climate crisis accelerates: We've hit 1.5°C warming, with 2024 set to be the hottest year in 100,000 years. 🌊 Key findings from recent research: •… | 12 comments on LinkedIn
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December 11, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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A chance for Labour to lead the world on climate change.

Excellent advice from @thecccuk.bsky.social.

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sfrost.bsky.social Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Dec 11
The Climate Change Committee sets out key outcomes and next steps for the UK from COP29 in this new briefing: www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Success will require firm delivery plans that include clear sectoral targets. UK should manage risk by aiming to over deliver on its legal target
Formal NDC submission and leveraging ambition from others. The UK should formally submit a high-integrity 2035 NDC to the UNFCCC by February 2025, based on the 81% reduction target announced by the Prime Minister at COP29. The formal NDC submission should champion international transparency through inclusion of a best practice technical annex (known as ‘information to facilitate clarity, transparency and understanding’). The annex should set out how the global stocktake informed the NDC and how delivery of the NDC will integrate with action on nature and adaptation, as detailed in our Advice on the UK’s 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution
December 11, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Excellent climate change stuff in Hansard.

Thanks to @daviesofbrixton.bsky.social who highlighted

“some excellent and important work that has been undertaken on climate change by the actuarial profession”

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daviesofbrixton.bsky.social Bryn Davies @daviesofbrixton.bsky.social · Dec 9
No one? Well, I did raise concerns about the AMOC in a speech in the House of Lords in October. See hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-1...
Unfortunately, the reply from the Minister failed to accept the risk.
Climate Agenda - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Climate Agenda' on Thursday 24 October 2024.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Powerful and critical insights. Derailment risk is one of the things that worries me the most.
Really appreciate @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social work on this.
December 9, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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📣 Ethics, investment system alignment, planetary solvency, XAI, social sustainability, mortality uncertainty- critical questions requiring better frameworks & practical innovations to develop solutions.
👉Read leading innovators in bit.ly/4f1F8SC.
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New edition of The European Actuary - Issue #40, DECEMBER
Issue 40, December 2024 of The European Actuary has been published. Featured Articles: Please visit the webpage of The European Actuary on the AAE website for prior issues or further details.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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First post on bsky…Upcoming masterclass on Biodiversity and Nature for asset owners and their consultants, 12 Dec.
Climate masterclasses earlier this year were brilliant www.linkedin.com/posts/nickxs...

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Nick Spencer on LinkedIn: The SG Pensions Enterprise Climate Change Masterclasses were one of the…
The SG Pensions Enterprise Climate Change Masterclasses were one of the most insightful and cutting-edge industry events that I have ever attended…
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December 1, 2024 at 12:32 PM