Climate change and sustainability

  • Central Bank of Ireland calls on everyone to embrace the climate challenge

    29 November 2024

    Deputy governor Sharon Donnery spoke at the Global Insurance Summit Europe in Dublin

  • Let's talk together about climate risk, Ed Miliband urges UK insurers

    28 November 2024

    Ex-Prime Minister Theresa May said businesses are often further ahead than governments in tackling climate risk

  • Australian Senate committee links fossil fuel extraction to rising insurance costs

    27 November 2024

    Committee's report wants government cyclone reinsurer to cover all disasters in future

  • Apra's reinsurance suggestions support non-life credit profiles in Australia, Fitch says

    20 November 2024

    Australia's regulator proposed plans to to widen access to reinsurance

  • GIRO 2024: Actuaries can offer important skills for climate reporting

    19 November 2024

    Actuaries' ability to explain an uncertain future is key to effective climate reporting, says Crowe's Lloyd Richards

  • GIRO 2024: Climate litigation forecast to rise under Trump

    19 November 2024

    Insurance expert from Hymans Robertson explains why, and what insurers can do

  • Hawaii climate litigation case raises coverage risks for insurers

    18 November 2024

    Court's decision on conduct and pollution exclusions highlights risks for historical liability policies

  • UN's FIT launches transition plan report

    14 November 2024

    This is the first publication from the Forum for Insuring Transition to Net Zero

  • European supervisory authorities' climate risk analysis covers insurers

    13 November 2024

    Results will be released at an aggregate level, and cover data from 2,331 insurers, as well as other financial institutions

  • Climate and Sustainability roundup: Eiopa turns up the heat, Spanish flood crisis and COP action

    13 November 2024

    InsuranceERM highlights climate change and sustainability news from the past month

  • Nine-out-of-10 Australian non-life firms expect climate change to hit underwriting

    13 November 2024

    Apra has surveyed re/insurers, banks and pensions on climate risk and their readiness for it

  • Flood defences are up to 10 times cheaper than rebuilding, says Swiss Re

    11 November 2024

    The reinsurer expects flood risks to increase due to climate change and urban sprawl

  • Spain's crop insurers add to claims staff, and make donations, to help flood-hit farmers

    11 November 2024

    More than 10,000 farmers affected by October storms

  • Eiopa chair reveals divisions on extra capital requirements for insurers' fossil fuel assets

    08 November 2024

    European insurers have also raised concerns with the proposals

  • Eiopa recommends additional capital requirements for insurers' fossil fuel assets

    07 November 2024

    The Authority has published its report on prudential treatment of sustainability risks in Solvency II