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  • US insurers still behind Europeans on climate scorecard

    04 November 2021

    Insure Our Future identifies major climate and fossil fuel laggards

  • Coal campaigners take Carmichael mine fight direct to Lloyd's managing agents

    19 October 2020

    Anti-coal campaigners aiming to stop development of the Australian Carmichael coal mine have targeted managing agents of Lloyd's syndicates in a week of direct phone calls demanding they rule out underwriting the controversial project.

  • Environmentalists slam US insurers for backing coal

    03 December 2018

    Asia-Pacific firms fare slightly better; Swiss Re and Axa earn top marks

  • Two insurers invest $17m in weather predictive technology

    17 March 2017

    Established modellers are "charging too much and delivering too little", says Weather Analytics

  • Shareholder pressure forces climate reporting

    13 March 2017

    A Fortune 500 company has bowed to shareholder pressure to start reporting on the risks its business faces from climate change.

  • US insurers 'turning blind eye to climate change'

    21 October 2016

    Many US insurers are still turning a blind eye to climate change, with less than 20% attaining high scores for their climate risk reporting, a study has warned.