De-risking the Future: Nature-based Infrastructure for Insurability and Resilience
With climate change, infrastructure assets face ever-evolving risks. This event explores how nature-based infrastructure improves the insurability, and thus bankability of infrastructure assets, and how it can enable resilience at scale. Insurance, conservation and non-profit partners will investigate financial incentives, data, partnerships, and regulatory responses needed to unlock insurance coverage and to guarantee resilient infrastructure through nature-based or hybrid solutions.
Framing this topic
This short section provides context for the event to ensure all participants, regardless of prior knowledge, are equipped to engage with the discussion.
As climate risks intensify, nature-based infrastructure’s role in building resilience is increasing. Yet these assets face unfamiliar risk profiles and sit outside conventional underwriting categories. Can insurance unlock the next frontier of infrastructure investment and what would it take to get there? What roles do public funds, regulation, and insurance schemes play in addressing market failures? This session explores insurance’s role in derisking nature based assets and narrowing the insurance protection gap, assessing risk frameworks, data tools, policy and insurance schemes with implications for financing and implementation. Examples from the Global North and South will be discussed.
