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Insurance as a Tool for Mitigating Climate Risk

Thu,  Sep
05
Add to Calendar 2024-09-05 13:00:00 2024-09-05 14:00:00 Insurance as a Tool for Mitigating Climate Risk Join us on September 5 for “Insurance as a Tool for Mitigating Climate Risk.” This webinar will include an overview of USAID’s work in climate insurance and a discussion on how insurance can be used as a tool for climate risk mitigation. Then, there will be a presentation from Africa Risk Capacity and Blue Marble Microinsurance on their approaches to insurance–ranging from risk pooling at the sovereign level to parametric microinsurance for agriculture. The session will end with a short Q&A.  Register to receive event reminders and a recording of the webinar.   Moderator: Gabriel Perez, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Speakers:  Kathryn Stahlberg, Senior Risk Advisor at USAID Lesley Ndlovu, CEO at African Risk Capacity Jaime de Pinies, CEO at Blue Marble The webinar is part of the four-part series, “Demystifying Climate Finance: Insights from USAID’s Climate Finance Working Group,” hosted by Climatelinks, the USAID Climate Finance for Development Accelerator, and Climate Policy Initiative. See all events in the series here. Global Climate Change team@climatelinks.org UTC public

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- (1:00 - 2:00 pm UTC)
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Join us on September 5 for “Insurance as a Tool for Mitigating Climate Risk.” This webinar will include an overview of USAID’s work in climate insurance and a discussion on how insurance can be used as a tool for climate risk mitigation. Then, there will be a presentation from Africa Risk Capacity and Blue Marble Microinsurance on their approaches to insurance–ranging from risk pooling at the sovereign level to parametric microinsurance for agriculture. The session will end with a short Q&A. 

Register to receive event reminders and a recording of the webinar.  

Moderator: Gabriel Perez, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative

Speakers: 

  • Kathryn Stahlberg, Senior Risk Advisor at USAID
  • Lesley Ndlovu, CEO at African Risk Capacity
  • Jaime de Pinies, CEO at Blue Marble

The webinar is part of the four-part series, “Demystifying Climate Finance: Insights from USAID’s Climate Finance Working Group,” hosted by Climatelinks, the USAID Climate Finance for Development Accelerator, and Climate Policy Initiative. See all events in the series here.

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