In this episode of ESG Talks, Steve Weinstein, Chair of the Bermuda Business Development Authority, moderates a conversation between Jim Nadler, KBRA’s President and CEO, and Bermuda’s Minister of Finance, the Honorable Curtis L. Dickinson, JP, MP. Bermuda has a proven track record in balancing the needs of the business community with prudent policy under a unified regulatory system. Steve, Jim, and Minister Dickinson discuss the rise in ESG investing and how Bermuda’s culture of innovation has well positioned the country as the world’s center for climate risk finance.

“A commitment to sound and effective regulation, policies, and practices that promote good, ethical, and innovative businesses, and an appropriate partnership with industry to advance initiatives that can be mutually beneficial and [promote] the greater good, is a role the government sees as being very critical. Bermuda aims to become the world’s climate risk finance capital by addressing critical needs in key markets and closing the global protection gap, while creating new economic growth opportunities. It is our view that the climate risk finance space is an extension of what [Bermuda] already does very well.” - Bermuda Minister of Finance, the Honorable Curtis L. Dickinson