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Ali Smedley: Senior Research Analyst, InsTech: Carbon offsetting: the insurance use case (256)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.850 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Reaching emission reduction and sustainability goals is becoming more important than ever. Supporting the carbon markets, including through new insurance products, can be a key way of doing this.  This week Matthew Grant speaks to InsTech’s own Ali Smedley - Senior Research Analyst and author of “Carbon offsetting: the insurance use case”. To learn more, you can download the report here. Topics include: The difference between a carbon offset and carbon credit Examples of carbon offset projects and their risks What’s happening with carbon insurance at the moment How data and technology companies can support insurers We’d love to know what you think about this episode - click here and add your thoughts to our LinkedIn post about it. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us [email protected] Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme. By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives: Explain carbon offset projects and their risks Describe what is happening in the carbon markets today Identify the difference between a carbon offset and carbon credit If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 256 page of the InsTech website or email [email protected] to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, good evening, wherever you are, Matthew Grant here.

0:11.5

Now, it's been an exciting week for us here in London with our first Risk Manager event

0:15.8

this Tuesday and the usual lively crowd, of course, but also some more fascinating companies on stage

0:21.7

talking about problems such as riots, people, food, sustainable buildings and cloud computing.

0:27.8

You're going to be hearing a lot more of must about that risk management space as corporate

0:31.6

start to discover how insurers have been assessing risks and the tools they've been using.

0:36.3

But today, we've got a short episode

0:38.2

for you. So if you're listening to this out on your run, bike, or commuting, you have to keep on

0:43.0

going on us today. But normal service is back next week. Short but good. We're all hearing about

0:48.1

carbon emissions, carbon credits, and the transition to net zero. But what does that mean? And what

0:52.9

other risks in all this? Well,

0:54.6

we've had a lot of demand for our report on this, which was released last Thursday.

0:58.6

Alex Medi led the research on that and is about to reveal to you what it's all about.

1:02.6

Now, the report is available on the website, www.com. It's free and you'll find a direct link

1:08.8

in the episode notes.

1:27.4

Allie, we're back doing this old style face-to-face in the office and the morning after our event last night with risk managers and you were on stage with Provisico and Liberty. It looked really good from the audience,

1:28.8

but how do you find it being up there on stage? Yeah, it was a great event and I think really,

1:32.8

really good speakers, interesting topics. It's always great as well to have sustainability as a

1:37.9

big theme spoken about. So yeah, really, really enjoyed it. Good. Well, you've kindly offered to be

1:42.4

our guest today. So just as usual, I want to

1:45.0

make sure people know who you are. I'm sure you've heard your voice before, but you are Ali Smedley,

1:49.1

your senior research analyst in Steck. And you studied on a geography-based degree at university,

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