
Climate finance
The climate talks in Baku were dubbed the “finance COP” but for that to have any meaning, the next round in Belém will need to be the “joining-the-dots COP”. This requires a more collaborative global financial architecture or ecosystem designed to tackle climate risk.

Climate finance cannot flow into a policy vacuum: UNEP FI
UNEP FI chief, Eric Usher, outlines how the new climate action plans that countries submit to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change can unlock the finance and insurance needed

How risk managers can support climate finance: Ferma
Closer co-operation between public authorities, financial markets and the private sector, as well as between governments across the globe, is needed to foster sustainable prosperity, Ferma’s Hedemark Hancke and Beaupérin argue

Contingent risk capital will drive climate finance: Howden’s Douglas
‘Insurability will be seen as the sharp end of the spear in terms of financial viability and long-term value,’ Howden’s chief executive of climate risk and resilience, Rowan Douglas, says

‘The unsolved puzzle of climate finance’: Munich Re Specialty’s Richardson
‘There is the need to work together with partners across industries on the practical questions of who is going to allocate the required capital,’ Julian Richardson, the chief underwriting officer of Green Solutions at Munich Re Specialty, says

Insurance should be the keystone of climate finance strategies: Aon
Broker’s global head of Climate Risk Advisory outlines why the UN climate talks in Belém could prove to be ‘the insurance COP’

Climate change poses existential risk to property insurance
All players in the property insurance ecosystem must help clients and communities harness property insurance as a tool for climate adaptation, or they risk becoming irrelevant

How to build a climate finance ecosystem
Managing director and head of climate, diversity and advisory at the UK’s development finance institution outlines how DFIs are innovating to fund the transition to net zero

Insurers are adding a new vector to climate finance
Insurers and development banks have historically operated in separate spheres, but climate change demands their collaboration

Climate finance should focus on private capital, not just public funding: WWF
Public finance may dominate climate discussions, but the impact of private sector money is ‘much, much bigger’, WWF UK’s chief economist says

Climate finance means sharing all the world – by insuring it
Re/insurers could make COP30 the most consequential of the UN’s climate talks to date by enabling the finance sector to take a holistic approach to climate change

From Paris 2015 to Belém 2025: climate finance explained
UN negotiations and commitments on scaling up international funding for climate action face a critical turning point ahead of the next climate negotiations in the Amazon

Risk professionals must confer on climate finance: Airmic CEO
Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce chief executive calls for collaboration between insurers, brokers, insurance buyers and risk professionals on climate initiatives

Insurers must help secure financing for clean energy: Ariel Green’s Napiorkowski
‘Re/insurers need to provide more capacity for covering clean energy technology risk so we can achieve our climate goals more quickly,’ Ariel Green’s managing director says

Banks have plenty of room for growth as climate financers
Commercial financial institutions provide about $245bn in climate finance each year, according to the Climate Policy Initiative, but net-zero targets may encourage larger outlays

The rise of pre-arranged crisis financing
Pre-arranged finance, such as insurance products, can help countries better plan their response compared with more traditional funding models, Centre for Disaster Protection executive director, Daniel Clarke, says

Insurers must solve the climate finance conundrum
Climate lobbyists ask how insurers can justify support for the industries that drive escalating risks
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