Briefing on CBD COP17 and Insurance: Insurers and the Global Biodiversity Framework

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Briefing on CBD COP17 and Insurance: Insurers and the Global Biodiversity Framework

OCTOBER 21, 2026

This CBD COP17 Briefing, ‘Insurers and the Global Biodiversity Framework: Managing risk, unlocking finance’, prepared jointly by UNDP and UNEP FI highlights where insurance, through risk management, risk transfer and investment, can support implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

The briefing explores how insurance connects with the wider nature finance architecture and what would enable insurance for nature to move from emerging practice to scale. It draws on the work of PSI and IRFF with insurers, reinsurers, brokers and public risk carriers, and has been developed to support Parties and negotiators, environment and finance ministries, insurance supervisors, development banks and other funders of biodiversity action, and participating insurers and public risk carriers.

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