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Harnessing the power of insurance to build resilience to climate and ocean risks

By Chip Cunliffe, Co-Chair of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, and María José González, Executive Director of the MAR Fund 

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UK’S BLUE PLANET FUND BOOST TO ACCELERATE ORRAA’S MISSION

London, Washington 13THof August 2021 – The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) is today announcing it has secured the financial backing of the UK Government’s Blue Planet Fund.

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COP26 100 Day Countdown – Looking forwards to a Healthy and Prosperous Ocean Future

Karen Sack & Chip Cunliffe – As the US and Canada experience heat domes, Southern Africa enters the third year of drought and China and Europe suffer devastating floods, the 100-day countdown to COP26 begins.

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Call for New Generation of Investors to Back the Ocean

London, Washington 23rd of July 2021 – The Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA) is today calling for a new generation of investors to “back blue” in a milestone year for climate and biodiversity.

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The Global Fund for Coral Reefs Becomes an ORRAA Institutional Partner

ORRAA and the Global Fund for Coral Reefs (GFCR) have formed an Institutional Partnership to collaborate on financing and implementing projects that advance coral reef conservation and coastal resilience.

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UK Government becomes full member of ORRAA as G7 countries strengthen their support 

Lord Zac Goldsmith, UK International Environment Minister, has announced that the UK Government is moving from being an observer to a full member of ORRAA...

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ORRAA welcomes Deutsche Bank as global lead banking partner

ORRAA is delighted to welcome Deutsche Bank as a full member and as its leading global partner from the banking sector...

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ORRAA announces the winners of its first Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge

ORRAA ran its first Ocean Resilience Innovation Challenge in late 2020 to surface finance and insurance innovations that build coastal resilience to ocean change while delivering a return on investment...

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Building ocean resilience through innovation, investment and entrepreneurship

In a Virgin Unite blog, ORRAA Co-Chairs Karen Sack and Chip Cunliffe discuss the need for a transformative global response to ocean risk...

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The Ocean is changing faster than ever. Investing in Nature can help us protect it

Writing for the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, ORRAA’s Karen Sack, Chip Cunliffe and Nathaniel Matthews set out how...

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Investing in nature-based solutions to build resilience to ocean risk

In a piece written for the 2020 Paris Peace Forum, José María Figueres (Board Chair, Ocean Unite) and Denis Duverne (Chairman, AXA Group and Chairman, Insurance Development Forum) set out the urgency to better understand...

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Responding to the emergency of ocean risk

The mounting evidence of the environmental, human and economic costs of ocean changes demand urgent and meaningful action to address ocean risk. And yet, our global response has not, so far, matched the scale and complexity of the challenge...

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Building coastal resilience

Karen Sack, Chip Cunliffe and Nathaniel Matthews explain how ORRAA is using innovative finance mechanisms to help protect and regenerate coastal ecosystems in China Dialogue Ocean...

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