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Developing insurance for climate resilience
23 August 2024The Humanitarian Finance Forum's Simon Meldrum explains how the insurance industry can help to tackle the humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.
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It's time for the insurance industry to lead on climate action
28 November 2023As the Geneva Association celebrates its 50th anniversary, the world's insurance companies must heed their own warnings and move into the vanguard of corporate climate action, writes Peter Bosshard
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With a watered-down NZIA, where do insurers' climate commitments stand?
21 August 2023After six of the eight founding members left the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance, Joshua Geer investigates if their ambitions stand
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Managing risk amid the 'third wave' of climate litigation
29 June 2023As climate litigation risk gathers momentum, Nadine Coudel and Robert Gardner look at what steps energy companies can take to identify and reduce these risks
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Investing for resilience
23 June 2023A stronger commitment to transforming our capital markets has the potential to bring prosperity and stability to billions of people, argue Jerome Haegeli and Bryan Pascoe
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Assessing the departures from the Net Zero Insurance Alliance
09 May 2023Antitrust concerns are being used as a political cudgel by the fossil fuel industry and its political servants in the US, writes Peter Bosshard
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After climate, insurers seek to measure their social footprint
16 February 2023The Geneva Association has outlined a framework to assess insurers' impact on society. But why is it needed and how would it operate alongside existing ESG frameworks? Paul Walsh reports
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Eiopa: how we plan to stop insurers greenwashing
20 January 2023Europe's insurance authority explains its plans to address greenwashing, including how the term is defined and what measures it intends to take to prevent it, in this Q&A with Joshua Geer
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Regulators consider capital for climate risk
16 December 2022Insurance regulators are keen to ensure their prudential frameworks properly incorporate climate risk. But whether this should be reflected in capital requirements is proving a difficult question to answer, as Christopher Cundy reports
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New insured emissions protocols are a fig leaf for continued fossil fuel expansion
16 November 2022The emissions protocols will allow insurance companies to do business as usual in underwriting the fossil fuel expansion, argues Peter Bosshard