With climate risk on the rise and exposure growing both in financial value and in geographical diversity, a more innovative approach to risk transfer is needed to plug the gaps left by traditional insurance, says Simon Young
A year after the PRA's landmark report into the insurance sector and climate change, Environmental Finance looks at how the industry is responding.
Insurers are increasingly factoring climate change into their investment decisions. But they are only at the start of a long learning process, finds Peter Cripps. This is the second part of a three-part series on how insurers are dealing with climate change
The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports
In exiting coal, scientific, moral and financial interests align, argues Peter Bosshard
The coordinator of the campaign group Insure our Future (formerly Unfriend Coal), Peter Bosshard, looks at progress made in 2020 and highlights the roadmap for 2021. Interview by Vincent Huck
Scientists have identified cascading crises as the biggest threat to planetary health and future generations, says Hélène Galy
There are lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that help us better prepare for climate change, argues Nidia Martinez