Building Resilience: Adapting assets to climate risk

Talk

Monday 07 December 2026
08:30 - 10:30

Members Only

Free

Join us for a breakfast panel discussion exploring how London’s built environment can measure, manage and adapt to rising climate risk.

Flooding, overheating and extreme weather are no longer distant scenarios for London’s buildings or the people who own, finance and occupy them. At the same time, the transition to a low-carbon economy is reshaping regulation, investor expectations and asset values.

With reporting frameworks such as the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) bringing climate risk into sharper focus, organisations need to understand, quantify and disclose their exposure.

Convened and hosted by Orbis Advisory in association with NLA, this discussion will bring together speakers from across the built environment to explore physical and transition risks facing assets in the UK and Europe. It will examine how these risks can be measured, the adaptation measures that strengthen resilience at asset level, and the industry’s readiness for new reporting requirements.

PROGRAMME

08:30 Arrivals and networking

09:00 Welcome and opening remarks

09:10 Panel discussion
Chair: Golnaz Ighany, Sustainability Director, RIOS
Eleni Soulti, Associate Director - Sustainability & Decarbonisation Advisory, AECOM
Victoria Thorns, Sustainability Lead for Housing and Land, GLA
Robert Jenkins, Responsible Investment Director, Delancey
Lena Sassenfeld, Senior Consultant, Orbis Advisory

09:50 Q&A

10:00 End

Speaker biographies

Victoria Thorns

Senior Sustainability Manager, Land and Development, London Legacy Development Corporation

Lena Sassenfeld

Senior Consultant, Orbis Advisory

Dr Golnaz Ighany

Sustainability Director, RIOS

Robert Jenkins

Responsible Investment Director, Delancey

Eleni Soulti

Associate Director, Sustainability and Decarbonisation, AECOM

Members Only

Free

VENUE

The London Centre
3 Aldermanbury
EC2V 7HH

Accessibility

There are two ways of entering the London Centre: either up 3 steps with a handrail on either side, or via a platform lift. There are gender-neutral and accessible toilets on the lower ground floor, which can be accessed via a flight of stairs or lift.

Please visit The London Centre Access Page here.

If you would like more information about the space, or have any further access requirements, please let us know how we can best accommodate these, by emailing events@nla.london.