Join us on September 18th, 5 pm - 8 pm, at The Landing Kitchen in Bala Cynwyd.

This happy hour welcomes the impact community - impact investors, family offices, foundations, and advisors who want to align financial assets with values in order to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient regional economy.

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Chat and Learn

Hear a short announcement about the parametric flood insurance pilot that was recently funded in Philadelphia by the Climate Smart Communities Initiative (CSCI), of the Climate Resilience Fund, which facilitates the development of climate resilience plans and projects across the country.

Then connect and chat with Insurance for Good, the City of Philadelphia Office of Sustainability, and Eastwick United CDC, who are partnering to assess the feasibility of a parametric microinsurance product for residents.

This project will develop a menu of funding options for voluntary property buyouts to provide more equitable and affordable flood recovery options for Eastwick residents. At the happy hour, talk to them more about how impact investors may engage with parametric insurance in the future.

Leaders Talking About Parametric Insurance and Resilience Research

Abby Sullivan is the Chief Resilience Officer in the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability. In this role, she leads Philadelphia’s citywide resilience planning. Previously, she served as an Environmental Scientist at the Philadelphia Water Department, where she worked on their green stormwater infrastructure program and led the Department’s coastal flood resilience efforts on the Climate Change Adaptation Program. She recently helped launch PEERS (Practitioner Exchange for Effective Response to sea level rise), a global community of practice for sea level rise adaptation professionals. Abby is a Certified Floodplain Manager and serves on NASA’s Sea Level Change Practitioner Consultation Board. She has a Master of Resource Management degree from the University of Akureyri in Iceland.

Carolyn Kousky is the founder of Insurance for Good, Associate Vice President for Economics and Policy at Environmental Defense Fund, and author of Understanding Disaster Insurance: New Tools for a More Resilient Future and an editor of A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation. She is a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a member of the High-Level Advisory Board on the Financial Management of Catastrophic Risks at the OECD, and the vice-chair of the California Climate Insurance Working Group. She has published numerous articles, reports, and book chapters on the economics and policy of climate risk and disaster finance and she is routinely cited in media outlets. She was previously Executive Director at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Kousky has a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Carolyn presented at Total Impact Summit ‘25 on ‘Climate Impact Architecture: Building Investment Models That Center Justice’

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