Ant is joined by Tam Hussey, Founder of Halo by Design, a consultancy focused on engaging customers and employees to encourage more sustainable behaviours. Tam shares a host of insights and tips to kick-start your engagement journey.
Ant sits down with one of the insurance market's genuine climate innovators in Toby Behrmann, leader of AXA Climate's London operation and a pioneer in parametrics as a former senior leader at Global Parametrics.
Ant visits Professor Patrick Paul Walsh, Vice President & Director, SDG Academy, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and co-author of a new position paper which proposes 18 recommendations to catalyse insurance as driver of sustainable development and to elevate insurance within development frameworks.
Links:
Position paper - Insurance and sustainable development: partnering on risk, resilience, and transformation: https://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/111474
Insurance and the SDGs open course: https://www.edx.org/learn/economics-finance/sdg-academy-an-introduction-to-insurance-and-the-sustainable-development-goals
Ant visits Linda Freiner, Chief Sustainability Officer of Zurich and one of the most experienced sustainability leaders in the industry. They discuss how to state the business case for sustainability as well as resilience, climate adaptation and Zurich's evolving sustainability strategy.
The episode we in sustainability need right now! Ant sits down with the ever pragmatic Olivia Brindle to discuss what insurance transition means in a hostile environment for climate action, and what learnings sustainability practitioners can take from Olivia's experiences in will-testing endurance events.
Veteran Howden executive Charlie Langdale, now CEO of Humanity Insured, explains this innovative new charity's mission and structure, and how he made his pivot into climate and social impact after spending three decades in insurance. https://humanityinsured.org
Backed by the insurance sector, Humanity Insured, empowers communities to build resilience in the face of climate change. By leveraging private and philanthropic capital, Humanity Insured unlocks the latest insurance innovations for the most climate vulnerable. Humanity Insured’s ambition is to protect 30 million people by 2030 and build $2.5 billion in insurance protection.
In its first year, Humanity Insured has funded ground-breaking initiatives, including drought insurance for displaced people and host communities in Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee settlement in partnership with UNHCR. It has also launched a first-of-its-kind drought insurance programme with the World Food Programme (WFP) to protect displaced people and smallholder farmers in Syria and partnered with Tearfund to support smallholder farmers across Ethiopia, Nepal, Malawi, and Pakistan—triggering an £80,000 payout in February 2025.