InsuranceERM's Global Climate Risk & Sustainability Awards 2024

Rachel Delhaise, group head of sustainability at specialist re/insurer Convex, has been recognised as InsuranceERM's climate and sustainability champion of the year, in acknowledgment of her outstanding contributions to the insurance industry.

Crowe UK is highly commended in the climate and sustainability consultancy of the year category in what was a very competitive field.

This year's rising star award goes to Sereina Pfister, a sustainability risk manager at NN Group, in recognition of her leadership, project management talent and ability to drive collaboration across the business.

PERse (Power.Energy.Risk; Securing the Environment) is a managing general underwriter specialising in property and casualty insurance products for energy and power production facilities, with a focus on renewable energy.

Having won InsuranceERM's climate stress-testing solution of the year in 2023, Conning's Climate Risk Analyzer is the standout winner of this year's climate risk analytics solution award.

Wildfire risk has become an increasing challenge for insurers, particularly in North America and Australia, with the last few years recording some of the biggest wildfire losses in history.

Milliman wins this award for collaborative and innovative leadership on sustainability, for helping insurers better understand and quantify climate risks, and for supporting clients globally on this complex issue.

In February 2024, WTW announced the placement of the first parametric insurance policy to help protect the coral reef system of the South Pacific Ocean's volcano-formed Lau Group of islands in Fiji.

Prudential's work has helped to increase access to simple and low-cost health and financial protection by using innovative technologies.

In what was a hard-fought category, kWh Analytics wins the prize for sustainable insurance initiative of the year with its pioneering data-driven climate resilience work and in particular the Renewable Energy Adjusted Loss (REAL) model.

InsuranceERM's award celebrates ClimateWise's 2024 revision of its climate and nature disclosure principles, and aligning them with a wide range of global reporting frameworks.

Greater Than's innovative technology adds a whole new dimension by generating climate insights from existing GPS data provided by telematics devices, smartphone apps or connected vehicles.

FIS gets a "highly commended" accolade from our judging panel for its technology that is helping firms meet regulatory requirements to understand the financial impacts of climate change on their operations.

WTW-sponsored research by Columbia University, A Stochastic Statistical Model for U.S. Outbreak-Level Tornado Occurrence Based on the Large-Scale Environment, has been highly commended in the climate risk research paper of the year category.

Solar photovoltaics (PV) is a vital technology in the transition away from fossil fuel energy. Globally, approximately 1 terawatt (TW) of solar PV capacity had been installed by 2022 and this is set to rise to 2 TW this year, according to Solar Power Europe,...

Axa is the sustainable re/insurer of the year in acknowledgment of its ongoing commitment to addressing climate change and fostering social inclusion.

The transition to a net-zero economy is challenging for organisations in many ways. Not only do they have to identify appropriate decarbonisation strategies, but they have to measure and report against an evolving set of diverse sustainability standards.

Arnold-Dwyer, an associate professor of law at University College London, has been celebrated for her thought-provoking exploration of how insurers can influence climate action through a unique legal framework.