Finance ministers of world’s most climate-vulnerable economies establish insurance facility with UN Environment Programme to protect MSMEs
Reposted from the UNEP FI Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Initiative website. UNEP’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative to host V20 Sustainable Insurance Facility with initial funding from the German government 19 July 2021—As climate change worsens extreme weather events across the globe, the Vulnerable Twenty Group of Ministers of Finance (V20)—comprising 48 climate-vulnerable economies with a combined population of 1.2 billion people and a 5% share of global emissions—recently reached one of their key climate finance milestones with the establishment of the V20-led Sustainable Insurance Facility (V20-SIF). The V20-SIF was highlighted as one of the V20’s key initiatives in [...]
V20 Summit: Enhancing economic growth in climate vulnerable countries
Sky News' The Daily Climate Show coverage of the Vulnerable 20 (V20) Group of Finance Ministers' Climate Vulnerable's Finance Summit, featuring an interview with Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) Special Envoy Abul Kalam Azad, aired last July 9, 2021. Reposted from the Sky News Youtube channel. Watch the full episode here.