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US withdrawal from Paris Agreement to increase risk to insurers, EIOPA warns
07 May 2025The EU's insurers face increased sustainability-related risk exposure in the next 12 months, linked to the US withdrawals from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the EU's pensions and insurance regulator.
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UK's climate risk management proposals are a fundamental regulatory shift, say experts
02 May 2025Consultation paper represents a "complete rewrite" of existing rules for insurers
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Insurers 'investing billions in fossil fuel companies'
24 April 2025Insurers are "complicit in climate collapse", a campaign group has warned, with five of the largest insurers investing upwards of $6.5 billion in fossil fuels.
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Low Carbon and Paratus partner for 'world-first' energy price risk policy
09 April 2025Energy price risk (re)insurer Paratus and renewable energy company Low Carbon have partnered for what has been described as a 'world-first' insurance policy to mitigate energy price volatility.
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'World first' parametric wildfire insurance deal inked
02 April 2025A deal in California aims to incentivise sustainable forest management to prevent wildfire risk, and could be replicable across the globe. Genevieve Redgrave reports
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Innovative parametric insurance product helps protect against flooding in Togo
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EIOPA says Omnibus means it needs to delay insurers' sustainability risk standards
13 March 2025The EU's insurance supervisor has asked for a delay to its work on standards for insurers' sustainability risk disclosures, arguing that the proposed Omnibus package creates uncertainty that makes its work harder.
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BlueOrchard backs extreme weather risk solution provider
11 March 2025 -
First climate insurance payout for coffee farmers
17 February 2025 -
Raise insurers' capital requirements for fossil fuel assets, EU urged
12 February 2025