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Insurers warned against hesitancy to back climate adaptation by EIOPA
29 April 2026Insurers 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.
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EU sustainability reporting reforms must avoid 'false trade-offs', says EIOPA chair
26 September 2025The 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).
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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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Regulating transition plans
04 June 2024A patchwork of regulations will soon ask financial institutions to publish and implement climate transition plans, Michael Hurley reports
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Eiopa launches free app to help with physical climate risk modelling
17 May 2023The 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.
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Pension funds could lose €255bn in disorderly transition, first climate stress test reveals
14 December 2022European 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.