New Financing Approaches, Instruments and Opportunities that Address the Risks of Loss and Damage

Event: 2016 Forum of the Standing Committee on Finance

New Financing Approaches, Instruments and Opportunities that Address the Risks of Loss and Damage

06 September 2016

Author / Speaker:

Butch Bacani, United Nations Environment Programme - Email the author | Other materials by the author

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the insurance industry has been working with institutional investors in promoting risk modelling beyond insurance. The aim is to offer parametric risk transfer to organizations (e.g., NGOs, development banks, microfinance providers, municipalities) while sharing the risk with third-party investors via an investment fund structure.

Geographical Focus:

Global

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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