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News on climate change and how it affects the global insurance and reinsurance industry.
Net zero goals top LIIBA’s agenda for 2022
24th January 2022
The London and International Insurance Brokers’ Association (LIIBA) has highlighted the issue of how to achieve net zero goals as one of its key goals for 2022, as leaders brace for another year of change at an “unprecedented pace.” In its agenda for this year, LIIBA said that the government’s desire ... Read the full article
Tokio Marine Holdings joins the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
20th January 2022
Tokio Marine Group is supporting the transition towards achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is promoting measures to combat climate change through both mitigation and adaptation. The group has been launching new insurance products and services that help achieve the goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ... Read the full article
Berenberg points investors to reinsurance market
19th January 2022
Banking firm Berenberg has posited that investors should be looking to the reinsurance market, especially considering the growth potential it holds arising from climate change. The argument, put forward in a recent newsletter, says that the current protection gap can spur innovation in product development. Berenberg put this in the context ... Read the full article
Pool Re investing into research on systemic risks
18th January 2022
Pool Re will be one of the investors in a new research consortium aimed at protecting society from future systemic risks. The consortium, which will be led by the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, along with the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School will "support the creation and extension of private-public ... Read the full article
Cyber the top concern for businesses in 2022: Allianz
18th January 2022
Cyber perils are viewed as the top concern for businesses globally in 2022, as natural catastrophe and climate change risks climb the rankings of the latest Allianz Risk Barometer. With 44% of respondents citing cyber incidents as their biggest concern, largely driven by the threat of ransomware attacks, the peril claimed ... Read the full article
Insurance Authority to continue nurturing ecosystem for green insurance
14th January 2022
The Hong Kong Insurance Authority (IA) recently hosted a discussion where insurance professionals shared their predictions on the industry’s participation in initiatives for addressing climate change, noting the emerging opportunities ahead. With climate change remaining as an imminent threat facing humanity, governments worldwide have created action plans to combat its impacts, ... Read the full article
PRA says more work on climate risks required from many re/insurers
13th January 2022
UK regulator the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has set out its priorities for 2022, which include a renewed focus on the financial risks arising from climate change. The PRA acknowledged that some insurers and reinsurers have made “good progress” in embedding supervisory expectations on climate risk. However, it added that progress has ... Read the full article
Businesses need to shift their mindsets around risk: Aon’s Greg Case
13th January 2022
Businesses need to shift their mindsets around being prepared for risk, according to Greg Case, Aon’s chief executive officer in a recent interview. In its new survey, Aon found that in order to succeed in the current climate, businesses need to focus on four critical priorities, navigating new forms of volatility, ... Read the full article
CoreLogic partners with AXA Climate on Hail Protection product
11th January 2022
Catastrophe risk modeller CoreLogic has been selected to expand the Hail Protection product designed by AXA Climate, the specialist parametric risk transfer division of AXA. The product has been designed to help businesses recover from financial losses such as property damage or business interruption following a hail event. After the launch of ... Read the full article
Climate change making peak peril distinctions irrelevant: Howden
10th January 2022
According to analysts at Howden, the growing threat of climate change and its influence on the severity of many insured catastrophes is removing the need for any distinction between ‘peak’ and ‘non-peak’ perils. The broker says climate risk replaced COVID-19 to become the re/insurance market’s pre-eminent concern in 2021, as another ... Read the full article
Climate change hit to supply chains will last longer than COVID-19: Swiss Re’s Ojeisekhoba
23rd December 2021
Moses Ojeisekhoba, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Reinsurance at Swiss Re, has warned that climate change will have a longer-lasting impact to global supply chains than has been seen from COVID-19. Supply chains around the world have been negatively impacted by the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, driving inflationary fears and resulting ... Read the full article
WTW designs ‘game changing’ climate-focused parametric solution
20th December 2021
Broker Willis Towers Watson has announced its involvement in the design and placement of the world’s first parametric insurance transaction capable of making possible the Government of Belize’s ground-breaking debt restructuring for marine conservation. Munich Re participated in an underwriting capacity, with the insurance protection having played a crucial role in ... Read the full article
Risk managers believe climate will make certain risks uninsurable: AXA
16th December 2021
Results from a new study by AXA show that 60% of risk managers fear that certain geographies or activities will become uninsurable in future due to the impact of climate change. AXA says that its 2021 AMRAE Climate Commitment Barometer shows the growing importance of taking into account and understanding climate ... Read the full article
Munich Re treating climate as systemic risk: analysts
13th December 2021
Analysts at Peel Hunt have noted that Munich Re now appears to be treating climate change as a systemic risk for the re/insurance industry, amid an ongoing rise on the probability of extreme weather events. Last week, Munich Re presented its ESG credentials to financial markets, which included interesting insights in ... Read the full article
Nature-based carbon a $1.3bn opportunity for re/insurers: report
9th December 2021
A new report by carbon market experts, BeZero Carbon, in partnership with international insurance broker, Howden, and UK insurance broker Blackford, has outlined the significant opportunity the re/insurance industry could play in securitising the nature-based carbon market and unlocking the capital needed to scale it. The report estimates that the voluntary ... Read the full article
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