The second webinar of the PDM Webinar Series is entitled Protecting Against Climate-Risks and Disasters: Tools for Ministries of Finance and will be held on October 2 at 9-10 a.m. EDT | 3-4 p.m. CEST. The event will feature as speaker James Seward, Senior Financial Officer, Capital Markets and Investments team, World Bank Treasury and Timothy Bishop, Senior Policy Analyst, Insurance, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD, will moderate the event. The last 15 minutes of the webinar will be reserved to a Q&A session.

The frequency and severity of climate-induced shocks is rapidly increasing and negatively impacting budgets and debt worldwide. The shocks are often direct through the substantial costs associated with rebuilding after floods, droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires, and indirect from increases in food and commodity prices. There is a range of financial tools Ministries of Finance can use to protect budgets against these shocks. This interactive webinar will explore some of these tools and how they can be applied, including short case studies.

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