CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY – Page 6
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NewsMarsh launches ESG risk rating measure
Insureds can use the results to improve their ESG risks, and gain access to additional insurance market capacity
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NewsSwiss Re debuts ‘enhanced’ oil and gas policy
Reinsurance firm Swiss Re will no longer provide individual insurance covers for the top 10% of the most carbon-intensive oil and gas producing companies from July 2023.
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NewsBiodiversity risk to become material by 2024
Corporates have just two years to improve due diligence around biodiversity throughout their value chains - report
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NewsChaucer and Moody’s launch ‘game changing’ ESG scorecard
Tool will evaluate businesses’ risks and opportunities based on 158 different ESG metrics
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NewsClimate crisis is ‘biggest long-term threat facing humanity’
Worries around climate change and the associated risks dominate global concerns, according to the latest report by international non-governmental and lobbying organisation the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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NewsInsolvencies, ESG and cyber are key risks for D&Os in 2022
Risk managers and their D&O insurers should also closely monitor potential exposures to US derivative actions, warns AGCS
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NewsMS Amlin Underwriting hires head of sustainability and ESG
The appointment ‘signals MS Amlin’s continued commitment to investing in and building on our ESG expertise and capabilities’, says director of strategy and transformation
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NewsLloyd’s chairman divulges market’s road map to hit net zero
Lloyd’s of London’s chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown has outlined the market’s road map to achieving net zero.
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NewsThe cost of a sustainable supply chain
How sustainability initiatives within the full lifecycle of goods and services benefits the bottom line and enhances reputations
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NewsEIOPA welcomes Solvency II proposals from the European Commission on sustainability
EIOPA believes that it is important to explore prudential treatment of exposures related to assets or activities associated substantially with environmental or social objectives.
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NewsHannover Re commits to net zero targets in reinsurance, investments and business operations
Hannover Re’s recent move to join the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance underscores its Group-wide sustainability engagement.
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NewsSustainability: Time to invest in biodiversity
Nature-based solutions can help organisations achieve greater resilience in the face of a changing climate
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NewsReinsurer takes minority stake in specialty MGA
The company recently announced a strategy of targeting high quality specialty MGAs in the United States.
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NewsInsurance industry leaders inaugurate alliance to accelerate net zero transition
As the intergovernmental G20 forum gathered in Venice for its Climate Summit on 9 and 10 July, eight of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers have collaborated to establish the UN-convened Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA).
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NewsAviva partners with WWF on industry action plan to achieve net zero targets
Amanda Blanc says the collaboration will ’ensure the financial sector gets its act together’ around working towards net zero
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NewsInsurers are failing to use their influence to fight climate change - ShareAction
Some commentators believe ’the insurance industry is the single most annoying part of this whole climate puzzle’
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NewsSwiss Re announces ambitious climate targets; accelerates race to net zero
Swiss Re today announced new measures to support the transition to a net-zero economy, encompassing both asset management and underwriting as well as its own operations.
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NewsESG drives better financial performance - study
Sustainability initiatives drives better financial performance due to improved risk management and more innovation
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NewsIn support of a green economy
Europe suffers from some of the most severe fossil-fuel-company insured losses in the world, according to PCS data
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NewsClimate change to transform renewable risk landscape
Renewable Energy Market Review January 2021 - The energy transition: risks and challenges
