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Dear readers, dear friends of the Foundation, |
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After the summer break, we are back with our Quarterly Newsletter III 2024. We hope that you have been able to use this time to take a deep breath and recharge your batteries. The challenges are not getting any smaller. Quite the opposite: in view of the increasing political upheavals and even armed conflicts in many regions of the world, there is a risk that targets that have already been set in the areas of climate, environmental and human protection will be weakened again. This makes it all the more important to continue to fly the flag for these important issues in a world that has become very turbulent.
We want to contribute to this with our projects in the three thematic pillars of climate change adaptation, climate protection and poverty reduction through inclusive insurance. While the summer months were a little quieter, we have a number of projects and events coming up from October: Dialogue Forums here in Munich, the closing date for applications for the RISK Award 2025 and, in particular, the International Conference on Inclusive Insurance again in October, this year in Nepal. Click through our project and event announcements and join in the discussion. Sustainable development needs every voice!
We hope you enjoy reading it.
Your team
Munich Re Foundation |
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Inclusive Insurance: There is no growth without inclusion From 15 to 19 July 2024, the first Latin American Congress on Inclusive Insurance took place in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. The event was organized in collaboration with the Bolivian Association of Insurance Brokers (ABOCOSER), the Microinsurance Network and the Munich Re Foundation. Over 150 participants represented around 80 insurers, brokers, technology companies, development organizations and consulting firms. > more |
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RAIN Challenge Excursion: In dialogue with smallholder farmers in Kiutu, Tanzanias In July 2024, representatives of the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and the Munich Re Foundation traveled to Arusha to learn more about the ongoing activities of the RAIN project "Carbon Farming for Environmental Sustainability and Profitability" (CAFAESUP). The project's smallholder farmers explained how they combine nature-positive agriculture with climate protection and higher yields.
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ILO Online Training "Insurance for Development"
The majority of insurance providers in traditionally underserved markets struggle to offer products that are profitable for them and valuable for consumers. The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility aims to better develop inclusive insurance markets. As part of this initiative, the "Impact Insurance Academy" on inclusive insurance was also offered in 2024. The course was supported by the Munich Re Foundation. > more
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International Conference on Inclusive Insurance 2024 - Register now! The ICII 2024 will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal, from October 21 to 25, 2024. Around 400 experts from over 50 countries will discuss ways to accelerate growth and economic sustainability in the field of inclusive insurance for emerging markets. The conference is organized by the Nepal Insurance Association, the Life Insurance Association of Nepal and the Nepal Insurance Authority in collaboration with the Munich Re Foundation and the Microinsurance Network. Register now!
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2025 RISK Award – Apply now! Disasters do not intentionally discriminate, but some people are more vulnerable! This is especially true for children. Nevertheless, it is important to understand that children and young people are not only "victims", but also have great potential to become risk managers themselves. Apply now for the RISK Award 2025, closing date: 13 October 2024. > more |
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Dialogue Forum: The challenge of climate finance – Climate protection seeks donors Together with the Catholic Academy in Bavaria and as part of the Münchner Klimaherbst 2024, we are organizing a Dialogue Forum on climate finance on 14 October 2024 at 19:00 at Mandlstraße 23, Munich. The transformation to climate neutrality is necessary, and the path is largely clear from a scientific point of view – but there are still no comprehensive solutions in sight when it comes to financing. How can we solve this? > more |
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"Energy with a future" training for teachers and multipliers As part of the Munich Climate Autumn 2024, our project partner Green City e.V. is offering further training for teachers and multipliers on the "Energy with a Future" project for secondary schools. The training is dedicated to the topics of career orientation and sustainability in the everyday and professional lives of pupils. The seminar will take place on October 22 at the Green City offices at Lindwurmstraße 88, Munich. > more |
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Dialogue Forum: Energy transition and climate protection – both a challenge and an opportunity for German industry? In cooperation with acatech - the German Academy of Science and Engineering - we cordially invite you to the Dialogue Forum on November 19, 2024 at our premises at Giselastraße 21, 80802 Munich. We want to analyse whether Germany is actually on the brink of deindustrialization or whether this is a necessary structural change and what opportunities it offers. > more |
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Dialogue Forum: Rethinking participation – Our path to a climate-neutral city Together with HM:UniverCity, we invite you to the December forum at the Munich University of Applied Sciences: Climate change is also becoming increasingly noticeable in Germany. As a result, there is growing pressure on society to move faster and more decisively towards climate neutrality. Municipalities have effective levers to curb climate change.
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"KLIMAGERECHTIGKEIT", Volume 178 of the journal politische ökologie The Munich Re Foundation and the Academy for Civic Education Tutzing are co-editors of the latest issue of the journal politische ökologie (oekom Verlag) on "Climate justice - the foundation of socio-ecological change" (German version only). > more |
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Africa’s efforts to combat the climate crisis In this essay, Victoire Ghafi Kondi Akara describes how climate change represents a massive threat to Africa, although historically the continent has done little to cause it. Fair solutions that prioritise the rights and needs of the hardest-hit groups are urgently needed. Finding them will mean having to reassess Eurocentric approaches. > more |
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Addressing Emerging Trends in Climate Change Risks and Adaptation
Some of the past Climate Academies were dedicated to the question of how risk trends will change in the face of climate change. How will they affect urban areas in particular? A special issue of the Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences has now published 11 papers by academy participants on this topic. > more
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Renate Bleich, Managing Director
Dirk Reinhard, Deputy Managing Director
Chair of the board of trustees
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