Category: Sustainability
Insurers must not forget legal and compliance issues as they fight to recover from Covid-19 pandemic
In a new and evolving world, companies will go full throttle on financial recovery and growth, hoping to avoid becoming one the pandemic’s corporate c [...]
Insurers have crucial role to play in transition towards a more sustainable climate
Managing risk is the purpose of the insurance business. Therefore, better understanding climate-related risks and opportunities and publishing decisio [...]
VIDEO: Putting the UN PSI Principles into practice
As the UN Principles for Sustainable Insurance initiative launches a major report – Insuring the climate transition – Liz Booth speaks to Dorothy [...]
Concurrent events create global risks, finds new report
Last year proved to be one of the most challenging in modern history, according to Aon’s 2020 review – Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight.
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UNEPFI puts cost of global warming into perspective
The cost of climate change will quickly become unacceptably high, according to delegates from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) at a global climate [...]
Climate change and transition to renewables set to transform energy insurance market
Climate change and the subsequent transition to renewable energy and low-carbon initiatives, as well as the growing significance of environmental soci [...]
Forty governments agree principles to support poorest in the world
Forty governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs, including the UN Development Programme, Climate Investment Funds, Zur [...]
Opinion: Data privacy key in minimising risks
As businesses look to overcome the challenges of 2020, they will have a number of goals in mind. For some, it will be about survival while others will [...]
Africa mirrors the world in terms of top risks, says insurer
A trio of Covid-19-related risks heads up the tenth Allianz Risk Barometer 2021, reflecting potential disruption and loss scenarios that companies are [...]
Covid-19 increasing social fragmentation, warns World Economic Forum
The Covid-19 pandemic is increasing disparities and social fragmentation, will threaten the economy in the next three to five years, and will weaken g [...]