Archive

  • EIOPA's wake-up call for insurers on fossil fuels

    22 November 2024

    A historic decision from EU financial supervisor on higher financial risk of fossil fuel sector must be integrated in EU prudential rules write Chiara Pass and Marika Carlucci

  • Climate risks threaten the insurance model

    08 November 2024

    As insurers' current claims management model is not sustainable, it is imperative to increase investments in the energy transition to guarantee the very survival of the insurance model, writes Guillaume Abel

  • Insurers hope to put the credibility into carbon credits

    01 October 2024

    Voluntary carbon credits are seen as a core element to future corporate climate commitments, and insurers are stepping in to bolster the confidence of buyers and sellers. Joshua Geer reports

  • Developing insurance for climate resilience

    23 August 2024

    The Humanitarian Finance Forum's Simon Meldrum explains how the insurance industry can help to tackle the humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.

  • It's time for the insurance industry to lead on climate action

    28 November 2023

    As the Geneva Association celebrates its 50th anniversary, the world's insurance companies must heed their own warnings and move into the vanguard of corporate climate action, writes Peter Bosshard

  • 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

  • Managing risk amid the 'third wave' of climate litigation

    29 June 2023

    As climate litigation risk gathers momentum, Nadine Coudel and Robert Gardner look at what steps energy companies can take to identify and reduce these risks

  • Investing for resilience

    23 June 2023

    A 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

  • Assessing the departures from the Net Zero Insurance Alliance

    09 May 2023

    Antitrust concerns are being used as a political cudgel by the fossil fuel industry and its political servants in the US, writes Peter Bosshard

  • After climate, insurers seek to measure their social footprint

    16 February 2023

    The Geneva Association has outlined a framework to assess insurers' impact on society. But why is it needed and how would it operate alongside existing ESG frameworks? Paul Walsh reports