Before Disaster Strikes: Six States’ Approaches to Financing Resilient Homes
October 2, Noon eastern
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Hosted by:
Moderator:
Lydia Olander, Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Speakers:
Gina Hardy, North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association and the North Carolina Joint Underwriting Association
Michael Newman, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety
CJ Reynolds, Florida Housing Coalition
What if disaster resilience could be financed before a storm, wildfire, or other catastrophe—not primarily after the damage is done? Join experts for a webinar cohosted by the Resiliency Company and Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability and exploring innovative approaches to funding property-level resilience investments, including IBHS FORTIFIED™ Roofs.
Panelists will discuss how state appropriations, insurance-sector funding, tax incentives, catastrophe bonds, and emerging blended-capital models are helping move resilience investment upstream. The conversation will highlight practical lessons for policymakers, insurance regulators, housing finance agencies, philanthropies, and others working to reduce disaster losses, strengthen insurance markets, protect public resources, and make resilient homes more affordable and accessible.
Case studies of resilient roof funding and financing programs from six state states—and a policy brief surfacing common features—will be published here on Monday, August 31 at 11 a.m. ET.
Speaker Information:
Lydia Olander, Program Director, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability
Lydia is a program director at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University and adjunct associate professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment. She works on improving evidence-based policy and accelerating implementation of climate resilience policy, nature-based solutions, natural capital accounting, and environmental markets. She leads the Nature Activation Hub at Duke, hosts the National Ecosystem Services Partnership, is Co-Site Director for The Center for Innovation in Risk, Catastrophes, and Decisions (CIRCAD), and sits on Duke’s Climate Commitment action team
Michael Newman, Managing Director, Partnerships & General Counsel, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety.
Michael joined the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) in 2020 with nearly 15 years of experience in law and public policy. Convinced that the damage, disruption, and dislocation all too often associated with natural disasters can be reduced or even prevented, Michael works with a team of scientists and risk communicators that deliver strategies to build safer and stronger homes and businesses. IBHS’s real-world impact enables the insurance industry and affected property owners to prevent avoidable losses.
