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Paris Agreement 'missed a trick' by not creating standard-setters, says Swiss Re
16 February 2024The insurance sector must look to external bodies to define the standards needed to make progress towards net-zero - but those bodies don't exist, according to Swiss Re's CEO.
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Swiss Re acquires flood modelling business
14 December 2023Reinsurance provider Swiss Re has acquired UK-based water risk intelligence and flood modelling business, Fathom, for an undisclosed sum.
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Report reveals top insurers of US coal
28 September 2023Global insurers AIG, Liberty Mutual, Lloyd's of London, Swiss Re and Zurich are among the top insurers of US coal mining, according to findings from Insure Our Future and Public Citizen.
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'Uninsurable' assets is 'direction of travel' amid extreme weather
11 September 2023ABN Amro has warned that assets are increasingly becoming "uninsurable" due to the impact of extreme weather caused by climate change, as insurers respond to rising loss risk by hiking premiums and reducing exposure.
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With a watered-down NZIA, where do insurers' climate commitments stand?
21 August 2023After six of the eight founding members left the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, Joshua Geer investigates if their ambitions stand
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Investing for resilience
23 June 2023A stronger commitment to transforming our capital markets has the potential to bring prosperity and stability to billions of people, argue Jerome Haegeli and Bryan Pascoe
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Swiss Re reduces carbon intensity of corporate bonds and equities by 42%
16 March 2023The carbon intensity of Swiss Re's combined corporate bond and listed equity portfolio decreased by 42% at the end of 2022, compared with the 2018 base year, it reported.
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People Moves 26 August: ISSB, Barclays, Citi, Swiss Re, BCG and more...
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Swiss Re says impact insurance could evolve into market 'staple'
01 August 2022Swiss Re, one of the world's largest reinsurers, would "like to see a convergence of impact investing and the insurance industry", commenting that 'impact insurance' helps the impact space attract more traditional investors.
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UBS, SwissRe join carbon capture scale-up
23 May 2022