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IPCC Chair Jim Skea spoke today at the UNEP Finance Initiative Roundtable “From Risk to Resilience: Financing the Future” – part of the London Climate Action Week 2026. Addressing the gaps in adaptation finance flow, the IPCC Chair highlighted three key areas for consideration of the finance professionals and investors attending the event: First, Skea stressed the obvious importance of the insurance sector. Secondly, the IPCC Chair noted that one of the biggest gaps, especially in the developing world, is the lack of early warning systems that can reduce the impacts of disastrous events when they actually occur. The third key area concerned supply chain resilience, especially in the food system, where people operating downstream, closer to the consumer, are particularly vulnerable to disastrous events taking place upstream in the agricultural sector. “The food system will be very much affected by climate change. It's one of the most sensitive sectors”, said Skea.