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  • With a watered-down NZIA, where do insurers' climate commitments stand?

    21 August 2023

    After six of the eight founding members left the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, Joshua Geer investigates if their ambitions stand

  • Axa chief: NZIA disintegration marks 'a sad chapter'

    04 August 2023

    Axa's chief executive Thomas Buberl has described the exodus of insurers - including Axa - from the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) "as a sad chapter".

  • NZIA ditches all emissions targets for insurers

    06 July 2023

    The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) has scrapped all requirements for member firms to set and publish emissions reduction targets following a mass exodus of members in recent months.

  • Beneva becomes first North American insurer to join NZIA amid turbulence

    21 April 2023

  • NZIA's underwriting emissions protocols open door to greenwashing

    10 November 2022

    The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance's (NZIA) protocols for decarbonising underwriting portfolios must include Scope 3 emissions targets, otherwise it could "open the door to greenwashing", said leading climate campaigner Peter Bosshard.

  • NZIA launches methodology for insurers to hit net-zero goals

    03 November 2022

    The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) has launched a public consultation on how its member firms will reach their goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG)...

  • NZIA defines metric for insurers' net-zero targets

    14 April 2022

    The UN-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) has explained its thinking on the best metric for setting insurers "robust targets"...

  • Tokio Marine joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance

    19 January 2022

    Physical risks from warming a "prudential issue" for Asia's regulators, says Japan's FSA

  • GFANZ calls on G20 to restructure financial system

    11 October 2021

    The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) has called on the G20 to green the global financial system

  • Carney criticised for 'greenwashing' net-zero financial firm alliance

    07 October 2021

    Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has been criticised by more than 90 non-governmental organisations that the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) that he chairs provides a means for banks to 'greenwash' their activities.