The ICMIF Resilience and Sustainability Summit aims to help enhance members’ understanding of the challenges and opportunities around sustainability and ESG and how to embed them in their business strategies.
The event brings together leaders from member organisations around the world to discuss and share best practices around the key themes of sustainable investments, resilience and underwriting. The summit looks ahead to the various sustainability challenges which our industry is likely to face and will seek to share solutions to create better businesses and well as new opportunities.
The 2025 ICMIF Resilience and Sustainability Summit (4-5 November) provided a unique opportunity to engage with leaders from mutuals and cooperatives around the world as we navigate the evolving landscape of sustainability and resilience.
Hosted at the iconic Gherkin and proudly sponsored by Swiss Re, this two-day hybrid event brought together industry professionals, thought leaders, and sustainability advocates to share insights, strategies, and practical actions shaping our sector.
Highlights
- Exclusive networking: Connect with fellow ICMIF members and global peers to expand your mutual and cooperative network.
- In-depth discussions: Gain valuable insights from keynote speakers and expert panels covering the most pressing challenges and opportunities in sustainability.
- Member-led innovation: Learn directly from other ICMIF members on driving meaningful change in climate strategy, sustainable investment, and ESG integration.
- One-of-a-kind experience: This is one of ICMIF’s only fully hybrid events – join us in person or online, wherever you are in the world.
Key themes & sessions
Our dynamic programme of sessions will be designed to inspire action and share best practices across our global network:
- Sustainability as strategic value: Demonstrating how sustainability is evolving from compliance to a core business differentiator through governance, innovation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Driving organisational transformation: Highlighting the cultural, leadership, and capability shifts needed to mainstream sustainability across insurance operations.
- Integrating resilience across insurance functions: Embedding ESG-aligned practices across underwriting, claims, and product development to shift toward prevention-first models.
- Community-centred climate resilience: Showcasing mutual models that place local communities at the centre of disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, and inclusive risk reduction.
- Sustainable investment for long-term impact: Unlocking the power of capital to finance disaster risk reduction (DRR), nature-positive initiatives, and sustainability goals.
- Global collaboration for resilience: Exploring how cross-border partnerships and collective action can enhance sustainable risk management and embed resilience at a local and global scale.
Looking ahead
The Summit built on the momentum of previous years’ events by highlighting concrete achievements from ICMIF members and encouraging collaborative dialogue on future sustainability priorities. Discussions focused on:
- Embedding sustainability into strategy to unlock innovation and growth.
- Driving cultural change and stakeholder engagement on sustainability issues.
- Exchanging peer insights on practical, measurable sustainability implementation and risk prevention initiatives.
- Exploring investment strategies that deliver resilience and shared value.
- Building global partnerships to shape resilient, inclusive insurance systems.
NEW for 2025: Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) required for travel to the UK
Please note, the UK government has now introduced electronic travel authorisation (ETA) for visitors who pass through the UK border, including people from the USA, Canada, and Australia. As of January 2025, all eligible non-European visitors must apply for an ETA to travel to the UK.
From 2 April 2025, eligible Europeans will also need to apply for the ETA in order to travel to the UK from that date onwards. From April 2025, all visitors to the UK who do not need a visa for short stays and who do not already have a UK immigration status will need an ETA. These can be applied for now.
Eligible visitors should apply for their ETA through the UK ETA smartphone app, which is quick and simple to use and enables most applicants to receive a decision in hours. Visitors can also apply on the GOV.UK website if they do not have access to a smartphone.
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Date
4-5 November 2025
Format
The Summit was a hybrid event with the in-person event taking place at The Gherkin, London (UK).
More information
For more information about this event, please contact the Events Team at [email protected]. To request the videos from the 2025 Sustainability Summit sessions, please contact Georgina Compton, Manager, Member Intelligence, ICMIF.