Press Releases
6th March, 2020
The Road To Glasgow
Speech given by Mark Carney. Governor of the Bank of England, Finance Adviser to the Prime Minister for COP26.
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Press Releases
19th September, 2019
Climate Summit Press Release
UN Development Programme, Germany, UK and Insurance Development Forum announce commitments to increase insurance protection in climate-exposed countries in line with the InsuResilience Vision 2025 goals.
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IDF in the News
9th November, 2018
The Insurance Development Forum becomes a Supporting Institution of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI)
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) is pleased to announce its commitment to the UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) by becoming a supporting institution.
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Press Releases
2nd November, 2018
A Lloyd’s Risk Report
A world at risk, Lloyd’s second underinsurance report, produced with CEBR, shows there is global underinsurance of $162.5bn in 2018.
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Press Releases
15th October, 2018
Enhancing banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing the financial risks from climate change
In this consultation paper (CP), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) seeks views on a draft supervisory statement (SS) on banks’ and insurers’ approaches to managing the financial risks from climate change (see Appendix).
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Press Releases
14th October, 2018
Vulnerable Economies Call for Accelerated Financial Shift
Finance Ministers from the V20 Group of climate vulnerable countries today sought large-scale changes to global finance flows, saying the funding shift needs to happen sooner, covering far larger amounts that can help protect economies from the worsening impacts of climate change.
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Press Releases
12th October, 2018
The global battle to reduce the impact of disasters
The importance of raising public awareness about disaster risk has been highlighted in tragic fashion by the latest earthquake and tsunami to strike Indonesia.
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Press Releases
12th October, 2018
Global Risk Financing Facility
The governments of Germany and the UK, with support from the World Bank, are establishing a new Global Risk Financing Facility (GRiF) to pilot and scale up support to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable countries to climate and disaster shocks.
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Press Releases
10th October, 2018
UN 20-year review: earthquakes and tsunamis kill more people while climate change is driving up economic losses
The last twenty years have seen a dramatic rise of 151% in direct economic losses from climate-related disasters, according to a report released today by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in advance of International Day for Disaster Reduction on October 13.
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Press Releases
10th October, 2018
Financing risk in Eurasia: Community, country and region
Risk is part and parcel of development, entwined with development and inseparable from that development. Increasingly it is recognized that an understanding and management of risk is what makes development truly sustainable.
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