23
May
IIASA, Schloss Laxenburg
Thursday
Finance Innovation Festival
IIASA, Schloss Laxenburg | Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg
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Enhance nature to help people adapt to change and disasters
Assessing feasibility and performance of solutions built on disaster risk financing and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) investments
Our ambition
NATURANCE project aims to encourage adoption of jointly elaborated equity principles, performance metrics and recommended approaches to analysis and design, in accordance with the EU framework for sustainable finance and the Just Transition Mechanism. To this end we will stimulate dialogues, knowledge sharing and mutual learning across different areas of policy and practice
The main objective of the NATURANCE project is translated into specific detailed and measurable objectives
Connecting existing major knowledge networks and fostering cross-domain knowledge
Seeking to assess existing and explore new areas for equitable insurance and investment solutions
Analysing policy and governance conditions that are conducive to sustainable and equitable innovative green insurance
Analysing models, methods, scenarios and metrics used for assessing risk-reduction performance of NbS
Build awareness and capabilities for green financial innovations, so to creating conditions for inclusive and transformative change
Partners
NATURANCE’s excellence relies on a strong transdisciplinary consortium of partners with wide expertise and long experience from prominent research & innovation organisations, insurance industry representatives, insurance brokers and sustainable finance experts, networks of regional and local governments, and organisations with huge experience in catalysing local and regional action. The consortium members hold extensive knowledge, skills, experience and capacity to meet the above goals.
Latest project events
Latest project news and mentions in the media
The first NATURANCE festival will take place on 23-24 May, 2024, in Laxenburg, Austria. Pre-registration for in-person attendance is open!
During the event, Stefano Ceolotto moderated the World Café session on "Climate risk insurance gap and innovation potential", presenting also the NATURANCE project.
According to the first European climate risk assessment report, many of these risks have already reached critical levels and could become catastrophic without urgent and decisive action.