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

    09 July 2024

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

  • Some 40 insurers set out plans for nature action with UN

    29 May 2024

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

  • Insurers get FIT after ditching the NZIA

    25 April 2024

    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

    03 January 2024
  • The financial industry has neglected nature, says Swiss Re's Reto Schnarwiler

    14 September 2023

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

  • EDITORIAL: NZIA becomes the Voldemort of insurers' sustainability discussions

    14 September 2023

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

  • California targets climate risk with sustainable insurance roadmap

    18 November 2022

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

  • Insurers begin long countdown to net zero

    21 April 2022

    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

  • NAIC updates climate risk disclosure survey for US insurers

    11 April 2022

    Participating insurers must comply with TCFD reporting by this November

  • Climate litigation next big threat for D&O insurance

    09 November 2021

    US climate regulation likely to spark a flood of cases, says Aon