Federico Casini, CEO Italy of howden, an insurance brokerage agency, who attended the event Letexpo on the sidelines of the round table “The best energies in the country for true environmental, social and economic sustainability”, stated that a “working table permanent bases between the insurance industry, government and public administrations involved to work together in the direction of sustainable development goals fixed byUN Agenda 2030".
Howden's CEO believes that i broker of insurance are “sentries in contact with the world of industry and with the territory and I am able to intercept problems to facilitate the path towards greater sustainability of economic activities".
In panel discussion, moderated by Massimo Giletti, also spoke Valentine Valentini, Deputy Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy. The workshop involved a number of industry experts, including Ferdinando Capece Minutolo, Head of the Commercial Credit Division of Assiteca Howden, Gabriele Colombari, Credit Manager of the Manni Group, Nicola Mannari, Senior Sales Director of LoJack Italia, Pietro Petrucci, Commercial Management – Medium/long-term credit of Assiteca Howden, and Stefano Retrosi, Regional Manager Sales PMI SACE.
Insurance companies ready to cover the risks of renewables
Casini referred in particular to the effects of climate change on the territory, agriculture and the environment in general and the consequences also for the insurance sector.
In fact, insurance companies also assume and manage environmental and catastrophic risks, so much so that in this case we are talking about green insurance. On the basis of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the insurance system must be ready to cover risks such as those linked, for example, to the production of renewable energies, or due to the strong intensity and distribution of rain and snow, or still relating to waves heat and drought in the agricultural sector, also threatened by excessive changes in temperature.
