Barbara Schurer, a Lloyd's of London Name' and one of the private capital backers of the world renowned underwriting hub, is sponsoring tve's Reshaping the Economy award at the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards together with Fastflow Group.Barbara joined Lloyd's in 1988, and, based on her extensive knowledge and experience of the Lloyd's Market, Barbara has just launched The Lime Street Guide, her online platform for daily news and updates about the 330 year old institution and the broader insurance market.
The tve film awards recognise companies whose films most powerfully portray solutions to sustainability and the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Insurance has a key role to play in reshaping the economy to address the SDGs,' says Barbara, who published the book The Lime Street Guide to Lloyd's' in 2009. The industry is already proactively helping to tackle the challenge of climate change. Microinsurance, providing poor and low-income households with insurance to protect themselves against the effects of risk, has huge potential to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people around the world, while the development of vast offshore wind farms or satellites in space could not happen without insurance backing.'
Barbara will announce the winner of Reshaping the Economy during the Awards ceremony at BAFTA on Monday 26 November. Short-listed films in five competitive categories addressing, between them, all the Sustainable Development Goals have been announced, and winners in all categories will be announced at the ceremony.
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Barbara Schurer is sponsoring Reshaping the Economy. An underwriting member of Lloyd's since 1988, Barbara describes herself as a loyal advocate of the Lloyd's of London market. It is the world at your fingertips, a place of truly amazing, dynamic, entrepreneurial relationships built over years, even centuries,' says Barbara, who published The Lime Street Guide to Lloyd's' in 2009, and then in September 2018 launched an online platform The Lime Street Guide. Through sponsoring this award, Barbara seeks to highlight the potential impact of insurance, and in particular of microinsurance, for achieving more sustainable lives for many of the world's poorest people. Without insurance we would all be much poorer,' says Barbara.
The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are organised annually by the charity tve. The film competition recognises companies and institutions whose films most powerfully portray solutions for sustainability. This year's competition has attracted 42 entries. For the third year running we are focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which set ambitious targets for world development: eradicating poverty and hunger; ensuring good health, quality education and gender equality; and setting targets for affordable and clean energy, climate action and responsible consumption and production. The president of the 2018 Awards is Claudine Blamey, group head of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Sainsbury's. gsfa.tve.org
tve is the non-profit based in London that organises the Awards. It creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and sustainable development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. The Awards are tve's main annual fundraiser. www.tve.org
Fastflow Group is the Awards' main sponsor for the fourth year running. The company provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, FTSE top 100 company National Grid and Cadent Gas, and Housing Associations A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing, Southern Housing, Karbon Homes and Midland Heart. It delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK. A recent addition to the business - County Durham and Derbyshire based Partner Group - designs and builds homes for housing associations and major asset owners across the UK.
Fastflow Group embraces the strategic, competitive advantages of a sustainable business model and conducts its business ethically, thereby establishing and maintaining long-term relationships to make a positive contribution to society. www.fastflow.co.uk
Sky has partnered with tve to launch the Beyond Plastic category this year. Last year Sky News won the Press Association Award for Environmental Storytelling, for its documentary A Plastic Whale'. Through Sky Ocean Rescue, Sky is using its voice and potential reach to inspire simple, everyday changes to stop the oceans from drowning in plastic. Since January 2017 millions have engaged with Sky Ocean Rescue and Sky has ambitious plans for future engagement. As a business, Sky is committed to leading by example and transforming its own business by eliminating all single use plastics from its operations by 2020. It is encouraging and supporting innovation to develop solutions through Sky Ocean Ventures and is working to influence others to take action. Sky Ocean Rescue forms part of the Bigger Picture which also inspires the new generation through the power of sport, and invests further in creativity and diversity in our industry to make a difference.
Grace Bian is Awards vice-president for the third year running, and chair of the China International Culture Stock Exchange. Grace has created two new categories for the 2018 Awards: AI: Empowering the Future and Global Digital Futures. An inventor with 73 intellectual property rights in her name, Grace focuses on the potential of smart cities to transform society through projects like mobile hospitals and smart health villages. Gr
