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  • More insurers turning their backs on oil and gas, Insure our Future scorecard reveals

    19 October 2022

    Lloyd's, Starr and Berkshire Hathaway count among the climate laggards

  • Marsh not acting for Adani's Carmichael coalmine

    22 June 2022

    Insurance broker had been linked to contentious coalmine by its investors

  • Coal business resorts to "haphazard coalition" of insurers as giants retract

    09 June 2022

    Financiers and governments at risk if they accept inexperienced underwriters, says Insure Our Future

  • Sompo's new coal policy still has major loophole, say activists

    27 May 2022

    The Japanese insurer will not support coal-fired power plants and coal mines

  • Scor to end coverage for new oil field projects by 2023

    19 May 2022

    However, climate activists slam Scor's restrictions for failing to cover gas

  • The Hartford to be net zero by 2050, but activists not impressed

    08 April 2022

    Insurer admits to lacking metrics to measure it progress

  • Zurich aims for its operations to be carbon neutral by 2030

    31 March 2022

    Environmentalists welcome approach, but urge the insurer to focus on core insurance business

  • Nat cat insurers should take polluters to court, says the Sunrise Project

    31 March 2022

    Climate campaigner Peter Bosshard says recouping claims costs would keep insurance affordable

  • Hannover Re rejects African oil pipeline

    28 March 2022

    The German reinsurer follows Swiss Re, Axa, Zurich and Scor in boycotting the project

  • Environmentalists praise Swiss Re's oil and gas policy but find "significant gap"

    17 March 2022

    Insurers asked to do more to support renewable energies