Marc Germanangue, CEO of Zenon, will present an overview of the tensions between mitigation and adaptation, he will highlight the place of innovations and technologies in each of these fields, the existence of double-acting innovations and technologies and the need both to overcome the false dilemma while mobilizing the most “adapted” tools in the face of very varied and changing situations.
Founders of the Trois Degrees project, and respectively director general and content director of the Climate School, Antoine Poincaré and Clement Jeanneau will present five beliefs on how to approach adaptation and mitigation jointly, and the pitfalls and solutions on the subject, from their recent essay “Managing the Inevitable: Benchmarks in the face of climate drift”.
Responsible for VINCI Concessions for adapting to climate change at around a hundred very diverse sites in 25 countries, Valentine Huet will present the strategy implemented to make adaptation a real driver of robustness and long-term performance. Based on concrete cases on mobility infrastructures, she will show how to transform systemic risk into structuring investment decisions, how to arbitrate under uncertainty and how adaptation makes a profound change in working methods, governance and interactions with operators, insurers, authorities and financial partners. An intervention focused on concrete levers of action as well as on the strategic transformation that climate adaptation imposes.
