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Taxonomy alignment of EU insurers and pension fund assets around 10%, EIOPA says
20 June 2025 -
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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Tokio Marine launches 'green transformation' underwriting business
28 May 2025 -
'World first' jaguar insurance launched
22 May 2025 -
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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Innovative parametric insurance product helps protect against flooding in Togo
31 March 2025 -
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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BlueOrchard backs extreme weather risk solution provider
11 March 2025 -
First climate insurance payout for coffee farmers
17 February 2025 -
Raise insurers' capital requirements for fossil fuel assets, EU urged
12 February 2025 -
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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