Using Insurance to Facilitate Adaptation to and Mitigation of Climate-related Risk
Lindene Patton
Chief Climate Product Officer
Zurich Financial Services
Bren School Advisory Board Member
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 @ 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Bren Hall 1414
*This talk can be viewed on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UFkXgmfiOo
Abstract
While Insurance is designed to facilitate protection of assets, it is also a dynamic tool that can also be leveraged to manage a public good, such as climate. Learn how government regulation and public-policy actions can distort the marketplace in ways that inadvertently encourage risky behavior and exacerbate free-rider challenges. Ms. Patton will also discuss why public-policy makers are often conflicted about risk-based price signals in the context of climate change, especially with respect to existing community assets. She will also address the issue of pooling and how some see it as a way to avoid difficult discussions about who should pay for certain risks and costs associated with low-carbon conversion. And she will discuss how government subsidies can actually introduce risk into technology—and how risk-based price signals (premiums) associated with insurance serve to reduce the risk of deploying new technology.
Biography
Lindene Patton serves as Chief Climate Product Officer at Zurich Financial Services. She manages the Underwriting Counsel staff and the Cost Engineering Services staff, which provide support to the environmental underwriting division and the architects and engineering underwriting division. She also oversees the group that underwrites guaranteed fixed-price remediation stop loss and all environmental impairment liability programs.
Ms. Patton has substantial expertise in all aspects of environmental insurance and professional liability insurance for the design professional, and she supports the development and improvement of all lines of environmental insurance. Additionally, she has worked extensively in standard property and casualty insurance and other specialty insurance coverages, such as political risk. She evaluates issues related to climate change and has developed products to support carbon trading and other unique solutions designed to assist customers in their adaptation to climate change.
Ms. Patton is an attorney licensed in the State of California and the District of Columbia, and an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist. She holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis. She received her master's in public health from the University of California at Berkeley, and her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Talk: Water: The Sacred Purifier
Water: The Sacred Purifier
Nandini Iyer (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Monday, March 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
“Just as the sacred river's roaring voice echoes all nature's sounds, just so, if the devotee wishes to be cleansed by its waters, his heart must respond to the cries of all living beings.” Professor Emerita Nandini Iyer is a life-long student of the world’s mystical traditions and of the teachings of M.K. Gandhi. She has taught philosophy and religious studies at the University of Oxford, UC Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. She is one of the founders of the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara and has been involved with several schools committed to combating religious intolerance. Professor Iyer’s talk will be introduced by José Cabezón, Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/water-the-sacred-purifier/
Nandini Iyer (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Monday, March 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
“Just as the sacred river's roaring voice echoes all nature's sounds, just so, if the devotee wishes to be cleansed by its waters, his heart must respond to the cries of all living beings.” Professor Emerita Nandini Iyer is a life-long student of the world’s mystical traditions and of the teachings of M.K. Gandhi. She has taught philosophy and religious studies at the University of Oxford, UC Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara City College. She is one of the founders of the Institute of World Culture in Santa Barbara and has been involved with several schools committed to combating religious intolerance. Professor Iyer’s talk will be introduced by José Cabezón, Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/water-the-sacred-purifier/
Movie: Source to Sea: The Columbia River Swim
Source to Sea: The Columbia River Swim
Thursday, March 4 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and dislocated peoples to over twenty thousand North American schoolchildren, and to a worldwide media audience of over one billion people. A group of thirty-plus Northwest filmmakers, led by Andy Norris, followed Swain's swim, and created a modern history of the great river of the West.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/source-to-sea/
Thursday, March 4 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
On July 1, 2003, Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and dislocated peoples to over twenty thousand North American schoolchildren, and to a worldwide media audience of over one billion people. A group of thirty-plus Northwest filmmakers, led by Andy Norris, followed Swain's swim, and created a modern history of the great river of the West.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/source-to-sea/
Talk: Black Sea Files: A Territorial Research and Art Project on the Caspian Oil Geography
Black Sea Files: A Territorial Research and Art Project on the Caspian Oil Geography
Ursula Biemann
Tuesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The pipeline is a geo-strategic project of some political impact, not only for the powerful players in the region, but also for a great number of locals: farmers, oil workers, migrants, and prostitutes.
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media Studies, IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment, IHC’s Oil + Water Series, and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/black-sea-files/
Ursula Biemann
Tuesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The pipeline is a geo-strategic project of some political impact, not only for the powerful players in the region, but also for a great number of locals: farmers, oil workers, migrants, and prostitutes.
Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media Studies, IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment, IHC’s Oil + Water Series, and the Community Environmental Council.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/black-sea-files/
Nutrition Week in the Dining Commons
Housing & Residential Services will be hosting Nutrition Week in all their Dining Commons everyday during March 1-5.
Students can talk to nutritionists and see displays on healthy, organic, and locally grown foods.
If you are interested in learning more about this event, please contact Terry Thomas at tthomas@housing.ucsb.edu.
Students can talk to nutritionists and see displays on healthy, organic, and locally grown foods.
If you are interested in learning more about this event, please contact Terry Thomas at tthomas@housing.ucsb.edu.
RecycleMania Sustainable Fashion Show
Sustainable Fashion Show to Support Recycle Mania
Sunday, February 28* @ 1:00-4:00 pm
Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista
Associated Students Recycling Committee will be hosting a Sustainable Fashion Show as part of RecycleMania, a ten-week international recycling competition. The event will feature garments designed from students utilizing recyclable materials (plastic, mixed paper, aluminum, e-waste, etc). There will be a live DJ, band (Other Nature), food, and prizes for the best designs.
*Please note day change due to inclimate weather.
Sunday, February 28* @ 1:00-4:00 pm
Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista
Associated Students Recycling Committee will be hosting a Sustainable Fashion Show as part of RecycleMania, a ten-week international recycling competition. The event will feature garments designed from students utilizing recyclable materials (plastic, mixed paper, aluminum, e-waste, etc). There will be a live DJ, band (Other Nature), food, and prizes for the best designs.
*Please note day change due to inclimate weather.
Talk: Personal Experiences, Observations, and Challenges for Protecting California's Ocean
Personal Experiences, Observations, and Challenges for Protecting California's Ocean
BRIAN BAIRD
Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, CA Resources Agency
Tuesday, March 2nd, 5:00pm
UCSB, Buchanan Hall, Rm 1910
About the Speaker:
Brian E. Baird, UCSB and Environmental Studies Alumnus, serves as the Director of the California Ocean Resources Management Program under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and also served in this role under Governors Davis and Wilson. He represents the Administration on the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health, California Coastal Commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the federal Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board, the California Ocean Science Trust, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project among others.
He has authored or co-authored papers on ocean management, liquefied natural gas facility siting, archaeological resources, oil spill contingency planning, marine managed areas, regional ocean governance, and coastal economics and was the chief writer of chief writer of Governor Schwarzenegger's 2004 strategy titled, “Protecting Our Ocean - California's Strategy for Action.”
On Earth Day April 23, 1999, Assistant Secretary Baird was designated an "Environmental Hero" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and in February 2008 he received NOAA's Susan Snow-Cotter Award for Excellence in Ocean and Coastal Management.
This event is FREE.
Sponsored by: UCSB's College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America Lecture Series and the Environmental Studies Program
BRIAN BAIRD
Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, CA Resources Agency
Tuesday, March 2nd, 5:00pm
UCSB, Buchanan Hall, Rm 1910
About the Speaker:
Brian E. Baird, UCSB and Environmental Studies Alumnus, serves as the Director of the California Ocean Resources Management Program under Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and also served in this role under Governors Davis and Wilson. He represents the Administration on the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health, California Coastal Commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the federal Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board, the California Ocean Science Trust, and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project among others.
He has authored or co-authored papers on ocean management, liquefied natural gas facility siting, archaeological resources, oil spill contingency planning, marine managed areas, regional ocean governance, and coastal economics and was the chief writer of chief writer of Governor Schwarzenegger's 2004 strategy titled, “Protecting Our Ocean - California's Strategy for Action.”
On Earth Day April 23, 1999, Assistant Secretary Baird was designated an "Environmental Hero" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and in February 2008 he received NOAA's Susan Snow-Cotter Award for Excellence in Ocean and Coastal Management.
This event is FREE.
Sponsored by: UCSB's College of Letters and Science Critical Issues in America Lecture Series and the Environmental Studies Program
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