IDF Footage & WebinarsMembers‘ Footage & WebinarsIDF Blog 24th November, 2021 UNECA / IDF Round Table: Opening Remarks of Hon. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Read more
IDF Blog 4th November, 2021 Remarks of Assistant UN Secretary-General for Climate Change, Selwin Hart, to Insurance Development Forum event at COP26, Glasgow, 3 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. Read more
IDF Footage & WebinarsIDF Blog 1st November, 2021 VIDEO: How risk understanding can change the world 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. Read more
IDF Blog 26th October, 2021 IDF Summit: How understanding risk can change the world 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. Read more
IDF Blog 11th October, 2021 IDF Summit: The role of insurance in the fight against climate change 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. Read more
IDF Blog 6th October, 2021 Climate change and the role of finance Extreme weather-related loss events have tripled since the 1980’s, and yet the protection gap in the developing world is growing. Read more
IDF Blog 28th September, 2021 Finance: the building blocks of resilience The IDF Summit explored climate change response plans during its session ‘In Conversation with Countries: Covid Response, Adapting to Climate Change and Building Resilience: Managing Constrained Public Finances’, which was moderated by Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economy Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department at Oxford University. Read more
IDF Blog 7th July, 2021 IDF 5 Year Anniversary: Blog with GIZ’s Matthias Range We were delighted to catch up with Matthias Range, Head of Unit for Disaster Risk Finance & Insurance at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), to continue our series of blogs and articles on key figures behind the establishment and ongoing development of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF). Read more
IDF Blog 18th February, 2021 IDF 5 Year Anniversary: Blog with UNDP’s Jan Kellett “The IDF is a unique programme for the UN because of the level of engagement with the private sector.” Read more