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  • Spurring sustainable investments with capital charges

    23 September 2019

    As sustainability makes its way into regulation, the question of capital charges punishing 'brown' investments or incentivising 'green' investments has come to the fore. While regulators are asking for risk-based evidence, stakeholders are not all in agreement on how to proceed. Vincent Huck reports

  • Integrate climate risk now, insurers told

    16 September 2019

    Insurers should start integrating climate risk into their management and business operations now, and not wait for the perfect tools, according to a report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) and UK charity ShareAction.

  • NN Group announces restrictions on coal-related underwriting

    29 May 2019

    NN Group is to stop providing insurance services to companies that derive more than 30% of their revenues from thermal coal mining from 1 July.

  • Norwegian pension fund manager divests from coal companies

    08 May 2019

    Norwegian mutual insurance company KLP, which manages the pension funds of municipal employees, has sold NOK3.2 billion ($365 million) of exposure to 46 companies profiting from coal-based operations.

  • Scor scales up coal divestment policies

    26 April 2019

    Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with the goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement.

  • QBE reveals coal exclusion policy

    03 April 2019

    Australian insurer QBE will target zero direct investment in the thermal coal industry by 1 July 2019, according to its new energy policy.

  • Insurance & Climate Risk EMEA conference: It's no longer about the obstacles but about the opportunities

    04 December 2018

    ESG investment needs to be more forward looking, panellists warn

  • Grey areas risk overshadowing a green taxonomy, says insurer

    26 November 2018

    Assets currently considered as green could be put at risk of becoming stranded if they were found to fall outside the bounds of a green taxonomy, according to Michèle Lacroix, head of group investment at French insurer Scor.

  • Fossil fuel divestment movement ‘backed by $6trn in assets’

    13 September 2018

    Investors with a combined $6.24 trillion in assets have publicly committed to divest from fossil fuels, according to a study by Arabella Advisors.

  • Severe natural catastrophes in 2017 leave Europe's non-life insurers nursing losses

    06 September 2018

    Last year's spate of severe natural catastrophes caused Europe's non-life insurers cumulatively to make a loss from covering property damage.