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About SUSTAIN Festival

SUSTAIN Festival is the world’s only co-ordinated programme events focused on the role of risk experts in building a more resilient and prosperous world.

Climate risks and the energy transition are impacting business models in every sector. Building resilience and seizing related opportunities is vital to safeguard long-term profitability, insurability and competitiveness.

Risk professionals and insurance have never been more important.

Launched in 2025, SUSTAIN Festival puts you at the forefront of some of the most important innovations the risk industry will make for generations to come.

The inaugural festival attracted 1600 delegates across 21 events in five countries.

Our mission

  • Inspire action. We need to move faster
  • Spotlight the roles risk experts can and must play
  • Accelerate best practices and implementation
  • Unearth opportunities for growth and innovation

Get Involved with SUSTAIN

SUSTAIN Festival is a global collaboration uniting organisations in a shared mission to build resilience and enable the transition to a more sustainable world. Help shape the future by hosting an event or becoming a sponsor.

Festival Sponsors

Thank you to all our 2025 festival sponsors, leading action towards a more sustainable future.

Strategic partners

About Better Insurance Network

Better Insurance Network is a growing global community of insurance professionals committed to building a sustainable insurance industry and world.

Our mission is to raise awareness on the strategic drivers and opportunities for implementing sustainability, and to accelerate best practices and innovation among insurers and their clients.

We provide networking, collaboration and learning opportunities for insurers, brokers and service providers and launched the first dedicated e-learning programme on sustainability for insurance professionals.

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Sustainability Training for Insurers

Sustainability for Insurers, developed in collaboration with the industry, is an e-learning programme designed to equip people working in the insurance industry with a foundational knowledge of the strategic drivers and implementation of sustainability in insurance, as well as identifying innovation and growth opportunities.

This course is available to individuals and corporates.

Insurance and the Sustainable Development Goals was developed by Better Insurance Network, the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) for the SDG Academy.

This e-learning programme explains how insurance can drive progress toward the SDGs, highlighting the tangible contributions of insurance companies and their role in advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through transformational innovations and partnerships.

Action Areas for Sustainable Insurance

  1. Ramp up engagement on decarbonisation
  2. Mainstream resilience & adaptation
  3. Unlock capital for climate innovation
  4. Develop tangible customer incentives
  5. Advance nature-positive insurance
  6. Align business models with sustainable development
  7. Innovate to de-risk the agri-food system transition