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IDF to launch insurance-funded adaptation blended finance fund
09 June 2025From Jennifer Forrest in Monaco
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Tokio Marine's green underwriting specialist targets $1bn revenues
30 May 2025A green insurance specialist launched by Tokio Marine is targeting $1 billion in revenues within five years, as businesses decarbonise or transition to a greener economy.
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Generali returns with 'unique and distinctive' sustainability cat bond
30 May 2025Italian insurer Generali has sponsored its second €200 million ($226 million) 'sustainability' catastrophe (cat) bond, replacing its ground-breaking 'green' insurance-linked security (ILS) a year after it expanded its framework.
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US withdrawal from Paris Agreement to increase risk to insurers, EIOPA warns
07 May 2025The EU's insurers face increased sustainability-related risk exposure in the next 12 months, linked to the US withdrawals from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the EU's pensions and insurance regulator.
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UK's climate risk management proposals are a fundamental regulatory shift, say experts
02 May 2025Consultation paper represents a "complete rewrite" of existing rules for insurers
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Insurers 'investing billions in fossil fuel companies'
24 April 2025Insurers are "complicit in climate collapse", a campaign group has warned, with five of the largest insurers investing upwards of $6.5 billion in fossil fuels.
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Low Carbon and Paratus partner for 'world-first' energy price risk policy
09 April 2025Energy price risk (re)insurer Paratus and renewable energy company Low Carbon have partnered for what has been described as a 'world-first' insurance policy to mitigate energy price volatility.
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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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Tweak Solvency II to make it easier to invest outside OECD, says Banque de France
11 February 2025A senior representative of the Banque de France has called for the European capital adequacy regime for insurers to be amended to allow more investment in non-OECD countries.
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Eiopa proposes adjusting Solvency II standard formula calibrations for natcat risks
31 January 2025The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (Eiopa) has recommended new risk factors for natural catastrophes (natcats) in the Solvency II standard formula capital calibrations.