Webinar

This webinar will take place on December 11th, from 13:00 to 15:00.

Webinar participants will be provided with an opportunity to learn about urban greening policies, how they are enabling finance and insurance and how they contribute to increasing resilience.

Webinar Agenda:

Increasing resilience with urban greening - policies enabling finance and insurance

Each presentation includes 5 min for Q/A.

• 13:00 – 13:10
• Welcome and introduction
  Hilppa Gregow (Finnish Meteorological Institute) and Marco Carreira Silva ( World Climate Foundation)

• 13:10 – 13:20
• Keynote: Opportunities and challenges in enhancing the role of insurance in supporting climate adaptation
  Leigh Wolfrom (OECD)

• 13:20 – 13:30
• Exploring Innovative Funding and Financing Solutions for Urban Reforestation: The Brescia CLIMATEFIT Case Study
  Jacopo Conti (Ambiente Italia)

• 13:30 – 13:40
• Barriers and enablers for green roof insurances. Evidence from economic experiments in the Netherlands
  Georges Farina (Stichting VU - Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM))

• 13:40 – 14:50
• Round table discussion, host Kati Berninger Tyrsky Consulting Confirmed panelists:
  
  • - Virve Hokkanen, Senior Specialist, Ministry of the Environment Finland, Sustainable Housing
  • - Camilla Bianchi, Deputy Mayor of Brescia on Urban Green and Ecological Transition
  • - Luca Constantino Arbau, Senior Expert ICLEI

• 14:50 – 15:00
• Conclusions and next steps
  Hilppa Gregow (Finnish Meteorological Institute) and Marco Carreira Silva ( World Climate Foundation)

CLIMATEFIT unites public and private sectors in a transformative quest for climate resilience. They're amplifying EU territories' adaptation capacities, unveiling resilient investment avenues, and co-creating innovative strategies, while spotlighting 20 pivotal case studies across three key regions.

HEU PIISA (Piloting Innovative Insurance Solutions for Adaptation) is a Horizon Europe funded project working to reduce the climate change adaptation gap (i.e. the difference between the recognized need for adaptation and the actually implemented adaptation) by developing and piloting new insurance and risk-sharing concepts.