By properly incorporating and evaluating climate change impact uncertainty and mitigation flexibility, Real Options Analysis can become a critical tool in achieving the following key objectives:

1. Motivate public and private sector leaders to develop and implement climate change resilience and adaptation projects consistent with their fiduciary duties to investors and other stakeholders
2. Optimize project design to achieve long-term resilience and adaptability at minimum cost
3. Create broader and longer-lasting mitigation impact with limited available funding
4. Reflect the full value of climate resilience and adaptation projects, while reducing their risks and increasing their appeal for stakeholders and investors
5. Attract additional sources of funding for climate change resilience and adaptation projects

About Our Expert
		Vladimir  Antikarov is Regional Director of the Washington DC chapter of PRMIA. He is Principal at Verea Group LLC. With over 20 years of experience, Mr. Antikarov has served as a senior member of the corporate finance practice with the Monitor Group, now Monitor Deloitte, and as Senior Advisor to the CFO of Overseas Shipholding Group, the largest U.S. oil tanker company. His client engagements have included work with AT&T, Merck, Lockheed Martin, Avaya, Thomson Reuters, Philips, Roche, Valle, Votorantim, Telefonica, Axel Johnson and World Bank. Mr. Antikarov is author of multiple articles on finance and management. He is a coauthor of the book Real Options, Practitioners Guide. The book has been published in six languages and was the number one business book on Amazon UK.   Vladimir Antikarov has an MBA and an ABD in Finance from Boston University.

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