Wednesday
September
03 - 04
2025
Time
9:00 am - 5:30 pm (AST)
Time zone
AST

Location
Hybrid
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2nd Wider Caribbean Regional Risk Conference

Climate Action
Disaster prevention and preparedness
Disaster Rehabilitation
General Environmental Protection
Trade
Aug 6, 2025

 

In an era of mounting global uncertainty, the Caribbean faces a complex and fast-evolving landscape of risks, including climate volatility, social fragmentation, financial instability, and technological disruption. The 2nd Wider Caribbean Regional Risk Conference, jointly hosted by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), CCRIF SPC – the development insurer of the Caribbean and Central America, and CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, aims to strengthen the region’s collective capacity to respond.

This high-level forum will bring together decision-makers, experts, and innovators to share insights and catalyse concrete action. It will build on the momentum of the inaugural event, held in 2022, which focused on raising awareness around integrated risk management. The second edition will place a sharper focus on cross-sector collaboration, innovation, and practical implementation pathways.

Objectives

  • Advance coordinated regional responses to multi-dimensional risk.
  • Highlight innovative financing tools and risk-transfer mechanisms.
  • Facilitate cross-sector learning and policy dialogue.
  • Identify scalable solutions rooted in science, community leadership, and youth engagement.
  • Accelerate action toward a more resilient, inclusive, and future-ready Caribbean.

 

The agenda will feature expert panels, interactive "Café Corner" sessions, and high-level policy exchanges designed to drive real-time learning and regional alignment. 

Key Topics Include

  • Sovereign Risk and Financial Sustainability in the Caribbean  
  • Climate change, loss and damage, and disaster risk financing
  • Managing Credit Risk in a Small-State Context
  • Economic tensions, uncertainties, sovereign risk and changes in global trade relations
  • Societal inequalities and threats to social cohesion
  • Misinformation and its impact on public trust
  • Unlocking Private Sector Potential in the Caribbean
  • The role of detection and attribution science in policy and planning
  • Risk implications of AI and digitalisation
  • Unlocking Private Sector Potential in the Caribbean and risk-sharing solution

Who Should Attend

The 2nd Wider Caribbean Regional Risk Conference is open to a wide range of participants who are working to shape or support resilience in the Caribbean and beyond:

  • Risk and disaster management professionals
  • Policymakers and government officials
  • Economists and financial sector representatives
  • Climate scientists and environmental experts
  • Academics and researchers
  • Civil society and community leaders
  • Development partners and international organisations
  • Private sector and insurance industry professionals
  • Youth leaders and innovation champions

 

Join leaders, practitioners, and changemakers shaping the Caribbean’s risk response. 

Agenda

9:30 am – 11:15 am

Opening Ceremony 

11:15 am – 11:30 am

Coffee Break

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Panel 1: Economic Tensions, Uncertainty and Geoeconomic Confrontations: Navigating these new Global Economic Relations

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Panel 2: Sovereign Risk and Financial Sustainability in the Caribbean: Strategic Financing and MDB Interventions 

2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Café Corner #1 – Blended Finance for Caribbean Resilience: Mobilizing Public & Private Capital, Concessional and Non-Concessional Funding

3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

Coffee Break (Online Entertainment)

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

Panel 3: Demystifying Misinformation, Disinformation and Fake News: How Risky are these to our Region’s Development?

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Welcome and View of Visual Summaries Day 1 

9:15 am – 10:00 am

Café Corner #2 – Exploring Detection and Attribution Science 

10:00 am – 10:15 am

Interlude/Entertainment/Coffee Break 

10:15 am – 11:45 am

Panel 4 – Loss and Damage and Climate Finance: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

11:45 pm – 1:15 pm

Panel 5: Are Nature Based Solutions Keys to Building A Resilient Caribbean?

1:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Panel 6: Has the Global Sense of Societal Fragmentation Trickled Down to the Region?

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Panel 7: Unlocking Private Sector Potential & Risk-Sharing Solutions for Sustainable Development

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Town Hall – Youth Voices on Caribbean Development 

4:15 pm

Closing Remarks/Next Steps

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