Accelerating Climate Adaptation: Public-Private Collaboration in Insurance Systems (Event organised by a Mission Project)

SOTERIA project invites you to the 3rd webinar of the Climate Resilience Dialogues Series. This webinar will cover public-private cooperation, natural disaster risk management policies and tools for global climate change adaptation, as well as insights into public-private climate insurance systems in Europe, drawing from the Bavarian case study. Key topics include advancing climate adaptation, public-private partnerships in climate insurance, policy recommendations for the EU, and best practices in climate risk management. It will be great if you could share this event in your network.

Event details:

• Date and time: 11.12.2024, 10:00-12:00 CET (UTC+1)
• Format: online (English, translated captions are available for some languages supported by Zoom)
• Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErce6uqT0rE9YcrC4csAX6WvmyQCOYW3O0

Speakers:

• Roland Nussbaum (Board Member of the French Association for Disaster Risk Reduction, AFPCNT)
• Oleksandr Sushchenko (Professor at Kyiv National Economics University, Research fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany)

Roland Nussbaum
Roland has volunteered for 25 years as a Board Member of the French Association for Disaster Risk Reduction (AFPCNT), contributing to national and international disaster resilience efforts. With over 40 years in insurance and risk management, he founded Mission Risques Naturels (MRN) in 2000, serving as CEO and chairing the Natural Hazards Working Group at Insurance Europe. He directed the National Observatory of Natural Risks (ONRN), a French public-private partnership for risk data sharing aligned with the Sendai Framework. Recently, he engaged AFPCNT with IDRIM Society and published research on France’s NatCat integrated disaster risk management approach in the IDRIM Journal.

Oleksandr Sushchenko
Oleksandr is a professor at the Department of Innovative Business Technologies and the Institute of Business Education at Kyiv National Economics University. He also serves as a research fellow at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Oleksandr holds a Doctorate in Economics and previously worked as a project coordinator at the UNDP Energy and Environmental program. His areas of expertise include sustainable and resilient post-conflict recovery, sustainable finance, triple bottom line approach, blended value creation, and financial risk management.

For further details, please visit our webpage: https://www.soteriaclimate.eu/articles/climate-resilience-dialogue-webinar-3/.

SOTERIA (SOlutions TEsting for Regions through Insurance for climate Adaptation) project is a Horizon Europe project aims to implement and test innovative insurance solutions to strengthen climate change adaptation (CCA) and resilience in 8 pilot regions across Europe.