Marex Head of Sustainability Cristina Sutu on the challenge and necessity of integrating climate risk into financial planning
"Trying to connect the dots can be quite tricky."
As Head of Sustainability at financial services company Marex, Cristina Sutu is very familiar with the issue of conflicting financial and sustainability timelines. “Climate risks require assumptions that are made far into the future,” she says. “We’re not used to thinking about it in this fashion.”
Net zero strategies stretch to 2050. Physical risk scenarios to 2100. Yet most financial planning cycles still operate on three- to five-year horizons. Trying to reconcile the two can feel like forcing different languages into the same spreadsheet.
