Insurance Sustainable Development Goals (iSDGs)
Public live event, video broadcast by UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative and Swiss Re on 8 July at 13:00 – 15:00 CEST.
| Date | 08 Jul 2020 |
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| Location | www.swissre.com/live Click to open Google Maps |
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Recording
Speakers
Butch Bacani
Programme Leader
UN Environment Programme’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative
Renate Bleich
Head of Sustainability
Munich Re
Conor Donaldson
International Association of Insurance Supervisors
Crystal GENG
Group ESG Expert
Ping An Group
Patty Karuaihe-Martin
Managing Director
Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation Ltd (NamibRe)
Ricardo Lara
Insurance Commissioner
California Department of Insurance
Patrick de Larragoiti Lucas
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors
Sul América S.A
Alison Martin
CEO EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) and Bank Distribution
Zurich Insurance Group
Mike Mitchell
Head P&S Underwriting Reinsurance
Christian Mumenthaler
Group Chief Executive Officer
Masaaki Nagamura
General Manager International Initiatives
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Veronica Scotti
Chairperson Public Sector Solutions
Gillian Rutherford-Liske
Head Reinsurance Sustainability
Garance Wattez-Richard
Chief Executive Officer, AXA Emerging Customers
AXA Group
Agenda
Time CEST
Topic
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Time CEST |
Topic |
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13.00 |
Welcome remarks
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13.05 |
Opening dialogue: Harnessing insurance for the SDGs
Moderation: Butch Bacani, UNEP
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13:50 |
Session 1 How non-life insurance can contribute to achieving the SDGs
Moderation: Butch Bacani, UNEP |
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14.20 |
Session 2 How life & health insurance can contribute to achieving the SDGs
Moderation: Gillian Rutherford, Senior Strategy Manager, Reinsurance Globals, Swiss Re |
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14.55 |
Closing remarks
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About the event
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—a shared vision to end poverty, rescue the planet and build a prosperous and peaceful world—are gaining global momentum. While progress is being made in many places, action to meet the SDGs is not yet advancing at the speed or scale required. 2020 ushers in the UN’s Decade of Action to deliver the SDGs by 2030, and there is a need to accelerate solutions to major sustainability challenges—ranging from climate change and ecosystem degradation, to poverty, inequality and closing the protection gap.
Currently, many insurance products and solutions already support achieving the SDGs but the industry lacks a systematic mapping of such products and solutions, a clear narrative, and methods to measure impact. There is also a lack of understanding on the types of insurance products and solutions needed—both existing and new—to support the achievement of various SDGs, and how such products and solutions can be developed and brought to scale. Finally, there are no global goals or targets for the insurance industry linking its insurance portfolios to the SDGs.
In this vein, the UN’s Decade of Action offers an unprecedented opportunity for the global insurance industry to scale up action and impact through a set of “Insurance Sustainable Development Goals” that would harness insurance products and solutions to help achieve the SDGs.
This event is part of the PSI-Swiss Re online event series 2020 on "Sustainability leadership in insurance".