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The BMZ supports developing countries and emerging economies with a wide range of measures and programmes to achieve their climate commitments and to protect themselves against the impacts of climate change.

Jim Barnardt Assistant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, Speaking at the Insurance Development Forum event at COP26, in November 2021.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power's speech during the COP26 Conference in Glasgow, November 2021.

Selwin Hart addressed attendees during the Insurance Development Forum's COP 26 event in Glasgow, Building Resilience in a Riskier World: Actions towards a climate resilient future.

Find out more about the Insurance Development Forum's approach to making risk understanding accessible to all through the establishment of the Global Risk Modelling Alliance. 

Climate change is a very real and increasing threat, especially for those societies which are most vulnerable; but there is hope to combat the impacts of these effects.

Disaster risk consultant Stuart Fraser shows how investment in making risk data sets interoperable is opening up collaborations and improving risk understanding.

The insurance and private finance sectors play a vital role in meeting the challenges posed by the climate crisis: together they hold the data – and the finance – to help build resilience.

Extreme weather-related loss events have tripled since the 1980’s, and yet the protection gap in the developing world is growing.