The Insurance for Nature-Positive Leadership Forum will convene a select group of leaders from insurance, government and finance, alongside technical experts, to explore how nature-based solutions (NbS) can reduce disaster risk, strengthen resilience and support long-term insurability.
Held following the Nature Positive Global Summit in Kumamoto and ahead of Seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) in Yerevan, the forum will focus on practical pathways to integrate nature-based resilience into insurance and risk management. Through high-level dialogue and real-world examples—including public–private partnerships and innovative financing—participants will explore how insurance, policy and investment can align to scale nature-based risk reduction.
The forum is hosted by MS&AD Insurance Group and convened by UNEP FI.
Space is limited and registration is required. Please kindly register your interest to attend.
Engl
| Time (JST) | Session | |
| 12:00 | Arrival and Registration | |
| 12:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 12:45 | Setting the scene: Nature as a foundation for future insurability | High-level dialogue
Strategic perspectives on how nature, resilience and insurability are increasingly interconnected—and what this means for insurers, governments and economies in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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| 13:15 | Introduction: Emerging solutions | Framing of key themes
Overview of the practical models explored throughout the forum, with key questions to guide discussion. |
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| 13:30 | Community-based insurance models | Case insights and discussion
How insurance and nature-based solutions can reduce risk at the community level, address protection gaps and strengthen local resilience. |
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| 14:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:25 | Corporate and asset-level resilience approaches | Case insights and discussion
Integrating nature-based solutions into risk management for infrastructure, real estate and business operations to reduce losses and support long-term insurability. |
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| 15:05 | Multi-stakeholder Resilience Models | Case insights and discussion
System-level approaches combining risk reduction and risk transfer, including pooled and blended structures that enable investment in nature-based resilience. |
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| 15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Insurance engagement with public sector strategies | Presentation and structured discussion
Government-led risk prevention and nature-based approaches, alongside enabling conditions—policy, regulation, data and partnerships—to scale insurance-supported resilience. |
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| 16:40 | Leadership reflections: What happens next? | Leadership dialogue
Senior perspectives on key takeaways, emerging priorities and areas for continued action. |
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| 17:20 | Closing and Next Steps | |

Mikako Awano Butch Bacani William Butler Aurélie Fallon Saint-Lô Yukihiro Haisa Deborah Halberstadt Mutai Hashimoto Hirotaka Hideshima Adam Ichikawa Naoko Ishii Dave Jones Verena Kraus Dixi Mengote-Quah Mami Mizutori Dr. Megumi Muto Ange Nichols Motosaburo Saito Astrid Schomaker Hiroo Shimada Tatsuya Sudo Daiichiro Takeuchi Hiroko Urashima Thomas Viegas Yuko Watanabe
Market Engagement Lead for Japan, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
Head of Insurance, UN Environment Programme
CEO, GaiaSicura Ltd.
Head of Sustainable Underwriting, AXA Group
Director of the Climate Change Science and Adaptation Office, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment of Japan
Special Advisor on Biodiversity and Inclusive Insurance, California Department of Insurance
Sustainable Finance Lead, WWF Japan
Fellow, Daiichi Life Group
General Manager of the Sustainable Management Office at SOMPO Holdings, Inc.
Professor and Director, Center for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo
Director, Climate Risk Initiative, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, University of California (UC) Berkeley School of Law
Senior Manager, Lead Insurance and Nature, UNEP FI
Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank Tokyo DRM Hub
Specially Appointed Professor and Strategic Management Advisor, Tohoku University
Senior Managing Executive Officer and Deputy Group Chief Sustainability Officer, Mizuho Financial Group
Senior Adviser, Climate Change, Insurance Council of Australia
General Manager, Forest Value Creation and Promotion Department, Oji Holdings Corporation
Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Manager/Deputy General Manager, Sustainability Division, Corporate Planning Department
Sustainability Division, Corporate Sustainability Dept, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
Director, Environmental Policy Division, Policy Bureau Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
Senior Specialist in the Sustainability Department, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
Group Nature Lead, Group Sustainability, Aviva
Chief Officer of Sustainability, AEON Co., Ltd.
Insurance for Nature-Positive Leadership Forum
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Surugadai Annex 3
3-11-1 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8011
Networking
Chuo University Surugadai Campus
19th Floor, 3-11-5 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062