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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.

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.

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).

“The IDF is a unique programme for the UN because of the level of engagement with the private sector.”

IDF 5th Anniversary White Paper by Rowan Douglas

5 Questions with Denis Duverne, Chairman of the Board of Directors at AXA and Chair of the IDF Steering Committee.

The Insurance Development Forum is delighted to be co-hosting a 2019-2020 seminar series with the Centre for Disaster Protection and the World Bank DRF team, entitled 'Finding Better Ways to Stop Disasters Devastating Lives'.