David Walker

Dutch MEP decries privatisation of ESG data important to insurers

Kieler Rück CEO calls European Single Access Point a "game changer"

Tokio Marine joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance

Physical risks from warming a "prudential issue" for Asia's regulators, says Japan's FSA

Tokio Marine plans ¥100bn of divestments

Japanese insurer Tokio Marine will divest at least ¥100 billion ($884 million) of equities, including in fossil fuel firms, by its 2023 reporting year as part of its commitment to sustainability.

Three Japanese life insurers join UN's Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance

Three of Japan's largest life insurers have joined the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance

Zurich launches unit-linked net-zero equities strategy

Zurich is expanding its unit-linked programme with a carbon-neutral equities strategy, as it pledges to "use every lever available" to head society towards net zero.

Rothesay says UK could be quasi-benchmark for other debt on net zero path

Rothesay is targeting net zero by 2050 and says the level of UK governmental endeavour to achieve the same goal nationally

Swiss Re heralds carbon sequestration industry as big as oil and gas sector

But reinsurer acknowledges long-tail liabilities of insuring CO2 storage

Insurers react against Bank of England's green bond buying plan

Yields already low, Just's Andrew Bailey says

French insurers win ACPR praise for climate action

The French regulator has released the findings of the climate pilot exercise it commenced last July and praised the many insurers targeting carbon-neutrality this decade, and low exposures to sectors most threatened by climate change.

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