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Climate and Sustainability Roundup: Insurers find their voice at COP30

InsuranceERM highlights climate and sustainability news from the last month

More details emerge on COP30 'House of Insurance'

Brazilian association's initiative aims to embed insurance at the heart of event

UN's FIT launches transition plan guide for re/insurance underwriting

Guidance outlines credible, proportionate net-zero pathways for insurers, reinsurers and brokers

UN's Butch Bacani says insurers must go further in externalising risk expertise

UNEP head of insurance offers a constructive critique at London Climate Week

UNEP FI's Butch Bacani: insurers raising presence at global climate talks

The UN Environment Programme's insurance leader talks to Joshua Geer about the sector's participation at the nature and climate COPs, the development of FIT and plans for 2025

Life and health insurers begin exploring underwriting emissions reductions

Sector starts to link client health, resilience and carbon reduction in early steps

Butch Bacani puts forward his five-year vision for climate transition plans

Eventually a move to "hard regulation" will be needed, he says

Some 40 insurers set out plans for nature action with UN

The UN's nature positive insurance working group held its first meeting yesterday

Insurers get FIT after ditching the NZIA

From the ashes of the NZIA, a new Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT) has emerged, promising to lead the industry's climate agenda. FIT chair Butch Bacani talks to Joshua Geer about the forum's mission and objectives

ICEA LION chief elected vice-chair of the UN's sustainable insurance board