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UNEP FI's Butch Bacani: insurers raising presence at global climate talks

The UN Environment Programme's insurance leader talks to Joshua Geer about the sector's participation at the nature and climate COPs, the development of FIT and plans for 2025

Life and health insurers begin exploring underwriting emissions reductions

Sector starts to link client health, resilience and carbon reduction in early steps

Butch Bacani puts forward his five-year vision for climate transition plans

Eventually a move to "hard regulation" will be needed, he says

Some 40 insurers set out plans for nature action with UN

The UN's nature positive insurance working group held its first meeting yesterday

Insurers get FIT after ditching the NZIA

From the ashes of the NZIA, a new Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT) has emerged, promising to lead the industry's climate agenda. FIT chair Butch Bacani talks to Joshua Geer about the forum's mission and objectives

ICEA LION chief elected vice-chair of the UN's sustainable insurance board

The financial industry has neglected nature, says Swiss Re's Reto Schnarwiler

Butch Bacani adds that most PSI members have yet to properly consider nature risks

EDITORIAL: NZIA becomes the Voldemort of insurers' sustainability discussions

Industry collaborations on net-zero are necessary - but clarity is needed on how

California targets climate risk with sustainable insurance roadmap

The strategy is designed to prioritise climate-related financial disclosures and scenario analysis

Insurers begin long countdown to net zero

Some of the world's biggest insurers have joined the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance. Thomas Cox examines the challenges facing the insurance group, and how it can help tackle climate risk