Insurance

Africa & Middle East, Events, Insurance | 18 March 2019

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.

Blue Finance, Insurance, Publications | 13 March 2019

Pirate fishing—also known as illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing—exposes insurers to legal, financial and reputational risks, but also puts…

Insurance, News | 12 March 2019

First-ever insurance industry guide to manage environmental, social and governance risks launched at major UN-Allianz event to drive greater action…

Insurance, News | 27 February 2019

Today, UN Environment, Oceana and leading insurers issued a checklist of warning signs for pirate fishing activity, as part of…

Insurance, News | 27 February 2019

Environmental organisations join forces with insurance industry to spearhead global campaign to tackle illegal fishing- Approximately 1 in 5 fish is…

Insurance, News | 27 February 2019

The first ever guidance designed for the global insurance industry to integrate sustainability into industrial and commercial business has launched…

Events, Insurance | 11 February 2019

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.

Insurance, News | 21 January 2019

Geneva/Gland/Paris, 21 January 2019—A pioneering insurance industry guide to protect our planet’s most special places through its risk management, insurance…

Banking, Climate Change, Insurance, Investment, News | 18 December 2018

On Saturday, following two weeks marked by dramatic rhetoric and intense negotiations over legal language, close to 200 Governments bridged…

Climate Change, Insurance, News, TCFD | 13 November 2018

UN Environment’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) announced today a partnership with 16 of the world’s largest insurers—representing around 10% of world premium and USD 5 trillion in assets under management—to develop a new generation of risk assessment tools designed to enable the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of climate change on their business. This understanding is vital for an industry whose core business is to manage risk.