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SCIENCE SUMMIT 2024: 17 - 27 September, New York

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Wednesday, September 25
 

4:00pm EDT

Powering resilient ecosystems and communities with science
Wednesday September 25, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Objective: Examining the role of science, technology and data in understanding the value of nature and how it underpins financial resilience in a world of risks, hazards and shocks. Developing a call to action for the scientific, development and insurance communities, as well as policymakers, to protect nature by harnessing insurance and risk transfer solutions and make science-backed financial resilience a reality for developing countries.

Introduction and Background
Climate change and nature loss threaten lives, employment, and economic growth, negatively impacting global financial resilience and investment flows. This Science Summit Event will explore how scientific advancements in data analytics, risk assessment, and predictive modelling, can be leveraged to develop insurance products that incentivize the protection of nature and investments in climate adaptation. Nature-related insurance solutions can also make a meaningful contribution to the delivery of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which highlights the need for both private and public financial actors to explore innovative financing mechanisms to tackle biodiversity loss.

The event will convene senior speakers from the science, insurance and development communities to share expertise and insights on how the nexus of science, data and financial instruments are incentivizing the protection of nature, on which 50% of the global GDP is highly dependent.

The discussions will lead to actionable recommendations for how the science, insurance, and development communities can develop insurance solutions that incentivize the protection of nature and investments in climate adaptation, while building long-term financial resilience.

(The session will inform the forthcoming Financing for Development Summit (FfD4) which will take place in Seville, Spain on 30 June 2025)
Speakers
avatar for Merideth Randles

Merideth Randles

Principal, Consulting Actuary, Milliman
Merideth is a principal and consulting actuary with the Seattle office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 1995.Merideth has served as the lead actuarial Program Manager and key personnel under Milliman’s contracts with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of the Assistant... Read More →
avatar for Jan Kellett

Jan Kellett

UNDP Global and Corporate Lead on Insurance and Risk Finance
Jan leads UNDP’s work across insurance and risk finance including the creation of the Insurance and Risk Finance Facility. He co-chairs the IDF’s operational committee, is UNDP’s senior presentative to the InsuResilience Global Partnership, and co-created the Ocean Risk and... Read More →
avatar for Rowan Douglas

Rowan Douglas

CEO Climate Risk and Resilience, Howden
Rowan is the Howden Group CEO Climate Risk & Resilience. Previously he led the Climate and Resilience Hub (CRH) at WTW where he led the creation of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) with the UN, World Bank and Industry Leaders and incubated the award-winning Coalition for Climate... Read More →
avatar for Julie McCarthy

Julie McCarthy

Co-CEO, NatureFinance
Julie is the Co-CEO of NatureFinance. She was founding co-director of the Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) Economic Justice Program, a $100 million per annum global grantmaking and impact investment program focused on issues of fiscal justice, workers’ rights, and corporate power... Read More →
avatar for Karina Whalley

Karina Whalley

Head of Public Sector Solutions, AXA Climate
Karina is the Head of Public Sector at AXA Climate, working with development institutions, investors and governments to spearhead adaptation, climate risk management and disaster risk financing tools. She represents AXA in the Insurance Development Forum which brings together the... Read More →
avatar for Magdalena Skipper, PhD.

Magdalena Skipper, PhD.

Nature Research (Publishing)
As Editor in Chief, Magdalena leads Nature’s magazine and research editorial teams. A geneticist by training, she has considerable editorial and publishing experience: having started in Nature Publishing Group in 2001, she was Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, Senior Editor... Read More →
avatar for Declan Kirrane

Declan Kirrane

Chairman and Managing Director of the Science Summit and Founder of ISC Intelligence
Declan is the Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science and holds prominent roles as the Chairman and Managing Director of both the Science Summit and the Africa Europe Science Collaboration Platform (AERAP). He is also a co-founder of Medicines for Future (MAF... Read More →
avatar for Lauren Carter

Lauren Carter

Deputy Team Lead & Head of Engagement Cluster
Lauren Carter is a climate finance specialist based in Geneva. Lauren is the IRFF deputy manager and leads the insurance investment workstream. Previously, Lauren was Director of Climate Finance Initiatives for a boutique advisory in Morocco and guided the government’s engagement... Read More →
Wednesday September 25, 2024 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
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