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Focused on making impactful strides towards enhancing financial inclusion and driving economic resilience, the Insurance Development Forum’s (IDF) Inclusive Insurance Working Group (IIWG) is spearheading a transformative initiative in Kenya in partnership with international organisations, local regulators, and insurance businesses.

The release of the 2023 United Nations (UN) Global Stocktake Report represents a crucial moment to evaluate our collective efforts to combat climate change, evaluate our progress since the Paris Agreement, and chart a sustainable course forward.

Following the conclusion of the two-year Medellín Tripartite Project in Colombia, the risk industry team involved reflects on the project’s outcome, the challenges they overcame, and how the knowledge they gained on the way can help future resilience programmes

Benchmark report highlights insurance as a critical pillar, together with innovation and investment in helping humankind respond, recover and adapt to the “unknown and unknowable challenges that humanity will face”.

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.

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.