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UN group creates ESG risks guide for life and health insurers
20 April 2022Life and health insurers should consider how environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks affect their underwriting portfolios...
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UN and Allianz calls for joined up ESG integration on both sides of insurers balance sheet
27 February 2019UN PSI and German insurer Allianz launch new guide
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Australia and New Zealand to develop sustainable finance roadmap
27 July 2018More than 300 organisations with a combined $10 trillion in assets have agreed to produce a roadmap to grow sustainable finance in Australia and New Zealand.
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Insurers blacklist illegal fishing boats
10 October 2017More than 20 leading insurers have pledged to stop underwriting vessels that have been blacklisted for their involvement in illegal fishing.
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Insurers' strategic responses to climate change
11 April 2017The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports
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Insurers call for more spending to reduce natural disaster costs
02 July 2014Increased investment to improve resilience to natural hazards has been called for by a group of international insurers.
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Charles Anderson named new head of UNEP FI
24 February 2014Former Sovereign CEO Charles Anderson has been appointed the new head of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
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Swiss Re stops 23 transactions on ESG grounds
19 June 2013Swiss Re's latest corporate responsibility report has revealed the firm barred 23 deals last year on the grounds that they did not meet its sustainability risk framework.