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  • Insurers warned against hesitancy to back climate adaptation by EIOPA

    29 April 2026

    Insurers have been urged to more proactively back climate adaptation measures, as the EU's insurance supervisor voiced concern that the industry was not incentivising such measures.

  • EU sustainability reporting reforms must avoid 'false trade-offs', says EIOPA chair

    26 September 2025

    The EU's efforts to streamline sustainability reporting should "resist the false trade-off between simplification and substance", according to Petra Hielkema, chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).

  • EIOPA says Omnibus means it needs to delay insurers' sustainability risk standards

    13 March 2025

    The 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.

  • Regulating transition plans

    04 June 2024

    A patchwork of regulations will soon ask financial institutions to publish and implement climate transition plans, Michael Hurley reports

  • Eiopa launches free app to help with physical climate risk modelling

    17 May 2023

    The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) has launched free software in a bid to help bring climate and natural catastrophe modelling to a wider range of users.

  • Pension funds could lose €255bn in disorderly transition, first climate stress test reveals

    14 December 2022

    European pension funds could lose up to €255 billion ($272 billion) of assets in a sudden, 'disorderly' transition to a net zero economy because of their exposure to carbon intensive industries, the first climate stress test of the sector has revealed.