Roundtable

This roundtable took place on December 11th, from 13:00 to 15:00.

Roundtable 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.

Roundtable Agenda:

Increasing resilience with urban greening - policies enabling finance and insurance

• 13:00 – 13:10
• Welcome and introduction
  Heikki Tuomenvirta (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 (Roundtable discussion)
• Round table discussion, host Kati Berninger Tyrsky Consulting Confirmed panelists:
  
  • - Virve Hokkanen, Senior Specialist from Ministry of the Environment Finland, Sustainable Housing
  • - Stefano Zenoni Former Deputy Mayor for Environment and Mobility of the Municipality of Bergamo
  • - Luca Constantino Arbau, Senior Expert from ICLEI
  • - Fanny Groundstroem, Senior ESG risk expert from Nordea Bank
  • - Toby Behrmann, Head of Public-Private Partnership for Insurance from Axa Climate

• 14:50 – 15:00
• Conclusions and next steps
  Heikki Tuomenvirta (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.