Partnership between United Nations Environment and the global financial sector to promote sustainable finance
Join leading insurers and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) to discuss sustainability challenges and opportunities in the context of the 21st century ocean economy, and find out how to get involved in UNEP FI’s new Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative to develop sustainable finance strategies and approaches to ocean-based industries.
UNEP FI is excited to offer a webinar for participants in Asia to discuss TCFD and climate risk assessment. The session will explore the TCFD framework, the latest from UNEP FI’s insurance and banking TCFD pilots, and regulatory developments around climate risk.
The 3rd PSI Africa Market Event hosted by Zimnat and Santam as part of the ‘Sustainable Insurance Africa’ week.
An Executive Breakfast on the UNEP FI’s work with the insurance industry and the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) will take place on December 10 in Santiago, Chile, the week in which COP 25 chaired by Chile will take place in Madrid (Spain). This event is organized by UNEP FI, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and Finis Terrae University (UFT).
Hosted by National Institutes for the Humanities “Research Institute for Humanity and Nature”.
Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) Market Event Europe The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) are joining forces for three days of insight into advances in sustainable finance to address key regulatory and market challenges, the asset management industry’s role in sustainable investment, as well as how capital markets…
The Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF) is a global network of insurance supervisors and regulators working together to strengthen responses to sustainability challenges facing the insurance sector. Launched in December 2016, the SIF provides a platform for international collaboration among supervisors, facilitating knowledge sharing, dialogue, and uptake of policy innovations. This SIF is convened by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which serves as its Secretariat.
The 2nd Africa Market event will be held in Lagos, Nigeria. UNEP FI and Principles for Sustainable Insurance(PSI) are organizing the event.
The purpose of the now-annual PSI Africa Market Event is to bring together leading practitioners and thinkers within the African insurance ‘ecosystem’ to share experiences and ideas relating to the creation of a growing, resilient, sustainable, responsible and profitable African insurance sector.
This two-day event seeks to drive ambitious sustainability action by the insurance industry in line with the aims of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Paris Agreement on Climate Change and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in September 2019.
The event will feature the launch of the first global guide to manage ESG risks in non-life insurance underwriting, and shape the sustainability agenda for the life and health insurance industry.
This one-day conference brings together the investment, risk, actuarial and underwriting teams to discuss and learn what roles they can play in response to the multidimensional effect of climate risk to their businesses as well as the opportunities it may bring. UNEP FI’s Butch Bacani, Programme Leader of the Principles for Sustainable Insurance, will deliver a keynote presentation on climate change action and sustainable development in the context of the insurance industry, financial regulation and global policy frameworks. Discount available for UNEP FI members.
Currently, there are nearly 1,100 natural, cultural, and mixed (i.e. natural and cultural) World Heritage Sites across the globe. Natural World Heritage Sites, in particular, provide economic, social and environmental benefits. They provide vital resources such as food, fuel and water; perform environmental services such as stabilising soils, preventing floods, and capturing carbon; and contribute significantly to economies through jobs, tourism, recreation, and exports. Find out what action the insurance industry is taking to protect these valuable sites.
The Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) were launched during the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro—two decades after the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio—also known as the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
This May, we’re going back to Rio for another pioneering event—the first PSI regional market event for Latin America.
Managing risk on two sides: The unique challenges of integrating ESG for the insurance industry Monday, April 30th, 09:30 EST | 14:30 GMT | 15:30 CET How ESG factors are influencing risk assessments: climate change, capital modelling and extreme events – How are recent weather-related events, which are being linked to climate change, changing insurance…
This April, we’re going back to Johannesburg for another pioneering event—the first PSI Regional Market Event for Africa.
The aim is to shape the sustainable insurance agenda in Africa across the insurance industry’s triple role in sustainable development as risk managers, insurers, and investors. Key sustainability challenges and opportunities that will be covered include the insurance protection gap, social and financial inclusion, and the resilience and sustainability of cities, infrastructure, and food and agriculture systems.
Building on the success of its Forum in New York, Climate Action is bringing the Sustainable Investment Forum to Europe in March 2018 in partnership with UNEP FI.
The European Forum will welcome 250+ high-level decision-makers from the finance community, European governments and think tanks to meet, network, share ideas and discuss concrete solutions to the current challenges of the European and global climate finance market.
Environmental Finance and InsuranceERM are delighted to announce their inaugural Insurance & Climate Risk conference, taking place in London on 15 November.
Climate change and become one of society’s prime long-term issues and the insurance sector is now responding. Traditionally focused on weather and the short-term insurance cycle there is now the realization that on both the asset and the liability side, insurance companies are exposed.
1-2 December, 2016 San Francisco, USA
At the beginning of December 2016, UN Environment convened insurance regulators and supervisors from around the world to launch the groundbreaking Sustainable Insurance Forum for Supervisors. The Forum aims to strengthen insurance regulators’ understanding of and responses to sustainability challenges, as well as the opportunities for the insurance business.
5-6 October 2016 | Munich
In October 2016, at the PSI-Allianz international event, “Insuring for sustainable development: Making it happen” in Munich, the PSI firmed up its initiative to develop sustainable insurance underwriting guidelines across lines of business. This initiative is backed by the experience of PSI members in implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk management frameworks in their core business activities, and by the PSI’s global study, led by Munich Re and the International Finance Corporation, on how ESG risks are addressed when underwriting surety bonds for infrastructure projects. These initiatives are shining examples of how the insurance industry can support the SDGs and will be developed further by the PSI in 2017.
15 June 2015 | New York, USA The UNEP FI-created Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI), the largest collaborative initiative between the UN and the insurance industry, is set to present on key insurance industry initiatives at the Global Insurance Forum of the International Insurance Society in New York. The PSI, backed by insurers representing about…
Live webcast CET 2:00pm , Press releases Principles for Sustainable Insurance press release (English) Portuguese , Videos Launch of the Principles for Sustainable Insurance Webcast ,UNEP FI launches the Principles for Sustainable Insurance on the eve of the Rio+20 Conference to support the global meeting’s aims. The launch event is co-hosted by the…
25 – 26 October 2011 | Munich, Germany The pioneering global process to develop Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI) reached its penultimate region in October. Munich Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, hosted the European consultation at their headquarters in Munich, Germany. The event convened insurance industry leaders and stakeholders, including delegates from the…
, Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 18-19 September 2011 After four regional insurance markets, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) takes its turn to partake in the United Nations-convened global consultation process to develop principles for sustainable insurance. The global process is being held under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance…
Media advisory English version ,, 11-12 August | Auckland, New Zealand Oceania is hosting the fourth of seven United Nations-convened regional consultation meetings that make up a global process to develop ground-breaking sustainability principles for the insurance industry. The meeting, taking place from 11 to 12 August in Auckland, is convened by UNEP FI…
Media advisory English version ,, 12-13 June 2011 | Guelph, Canada After two ground-breaking consultation meetings in the Southern Hemisphere, Canada hosts from 12 to 13 June 2011 the third of seven United Nations-convened regional consultations that make up a global process to develop a set of sustainability principles for the insurance industry. Once…
Media advisory English version Portuguese version Spanish version ,, 16-17 May 2011 | São Paulo, Brazil The pioneering consultation process to develop principles for sustainable insurance continues its global voyage as it arrives in Latin America and the Caribbean in May, following a similar regional meeting for Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, earlier this…
Principles of Sustainable Insurance Schedule of 2011 UNEP FI-PSI regional consultations Media Advisories: Middle East & North Africa Oceania North America Latin America (Portuguese) (Spanish) Africa , 15-16 March 2011 | Johannesburg, South Africa UNEP FI and the African insurance industry took the first steps of a global…
Survey period: 9 March 2009 to 1 June 2009 The UNEP FI Insurance Working Group, supported by leading academic institutions from the United States and Europe, is conducting a landmark global survey on the understanding and integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in insurance underwriting and product development. The nature and scope of…
17-18 June 2008 | Edinburgh, Scotland Sustainable insurance was a major attraction at the 2008 Conference of the Association for Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC), “Communicating Risk Management.” AIRMIC has nearly 1,000 members and represents the insurance buyers and risk managers of about 75% of the UK FTSE 100 group of companies, as well as…