Nature for insurance,
insurance for nature

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Key achievements

Creating a network of networks, shared moments

2023
Finance Innovation Webstival
Setting the stage for NbS innovation
2024
Finance Innovation Festival
The power of communities
2025
Finance Innovation Webstival
Enhancing cross-sector collaboration
2026
Finance Innovation Festival
From research to place-based policy

Linking existing major knowledge networks and fostering cross-domain understanding at the intersection of finance, insurance, and NbS.

Key achievements

Nine labs, growing ideas

Natural flood risk management - UK ​→

Natural flood risk management - NL​ →

Wildfire risk management​ →

Heat adaptation​ →

Flood risk management - IT​ →

Nature conservation and restoration →

Resilience →

Natural flood and drought risk management →

Scaling nature-based solutions →

Exploring equitable insurance and investment solutions through real-world testbeds where NbS and financial innovation converge.

Developing and testing the tools needed to assess how NbS investments reduce disaster risk—at the resolution insurers and investors require.

Key achievements

Capacity for transformative change

Citizen Engagement
500+ citizens engaged
Community-led ideas for local adaptation
Consolidating Knowledge
45+ case studies
Analysis drawing on real world examples
Knowledge Hub
Open-access collection of state-of-the-art resources
Podcast
Conversations on financing nature with practitioners

Creating conditions for inclusive and transformative change in regions engaged in the EU Mission on Climate Adaptation.

NATURANCE successfully generated knowledge underpinning nature-based insurance and investment solutions (NBIIS) and helped build convergence around their relevance, feasibility, and practical usefulness for climate adaptation.
Jaroslav Mysiak
Project Coordinator, CMCC
podcast
NATURANCE Talks
Funding
Funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
Grant Agreement No. 101060464
October 2022 – May 2026