SUSTAIN Festival 2026

A discussion on investment opportunities for institutional investors to support climate adaptation and resilience through infrastructure in Latin America, Asia, and Africa and share some experience from the recently launched Infrastructure Resilience Development Fund (IRDF) initiated by the Forum. Participants will discuss opportunities and challenges of infrastructure in emerging markets, including the use of blended finance for de-risking and the achievement of positive social, development and climate-related outcomes.

Further information on the IRDF is available here: https://lnkd.in/dAsXkEPB

Join us for this panel discussion on carbon markets - specifically, the role of insurance in driving them and what carriers can do today to get ahead.

The event will be moderated by Canopius (representing insurance carriers), while our speakers will come from across the carbon markets value chain. You will hear the latest on the opportunities in the space from experts at Kita, Howden and Macquarie Global Carbon.

We will focus on practical questions and leave attendees with a tangible understanding of:

• What insurers can bring to the table in supporting the development of carbon markets

• Why insurers should be spend time on developing their capabilities in this space
• What real client needs and opportunities are already there today
• What insurers can do to get better informed, more comfortable with the market and start to get exposure to it

Add this event to your schedule and the event host will confirm your place.

Join our panel of experts as we explore the key barriers to climate risk innovation in the financial sector, and what can be done to break them.

Finance has a critical role to play in enabling the transition to a more resilient, sustainable, low carbon world. The transition offers huge opportunities for insurers, banks and asset managers. However, as physical risks escalate and a disorderly transition appears increasingly likely, innovation has a potentially transformative role in both mitigating and managing those risks.

In this webcast, we will explore the climate risk innovation ecosystem and identify key barriers to adoption and implementation in the financial sector. We will hear from a range of stakeholders – from innovators to financial practitioners to policy experts – as we holistically consider the available actions that will help shape the future of the risk management in this critical sector.

Moderator
Jo Paisley, President, GARP Risk Institute

Speakers
Ingrid Holmes, Executive Director, Green Finance Institute
Holly Roberts-Harry, Sustainable Finance Solutions Lead, Howden Capital Advisory and Placement
Maiko Schaffrath, Head of The Greenhouse Accelerator, Undaunted
Michael Sheren, CEO, Asia Green Fund Management

This event will be hosted online on the ON24 webcast platform.

Join Hiscox and guests for a panel discussion on humanitarian insurance, closing the gap and building resilience, with networking opportunities. 

Facilitator: Panay Koulovasilopoulos, Head of Climate and Resilience, Hiscox
Speaker: Kipkorir Koskei, Director Strategic Partnerships and Policy, Insurance Development Forum
Speaker: Alastair Norris, Climate and Disaster Risk Consultant
Speaker: Anna Farina, Head of Crisis Anticipation and Disaster Risk Financing, START Network

Building trust through partnership: Mitigating the financial impacts of disasters and accelerating long-term resilience in a resource-contracting world; 

Locations with high exposure to natural hazards, limited insurance market capacity and fragmented risk management practices have made it difficult for local and regional contractors to obtain adequate insurance coverage for donor-funded infrastructure projects or disaster relief. These challenges threaten both the financial and climate resilience of critical infrastructure and the communities they serve.

We have seen some dramatic changes in the donor funding landscape over the past year or so. How can insurance support closing the gap?