Archive

  • Swiss Re earns top marks for reducing coal underwriting and investment

    02 December 2019

    European re/insurers highly ranked; US and Asian firms continue to be targeted by environmentalists

  • Report: Axis Capital rules out Carmichael coal mine coverage

    03 October 2019

    Lloyd's chief John Neal has argued syndicates should not be directed on coal underwriting

  • Environmentalists slam US insurers for backing coal

    03 December 2018

    Asia-Pacific firms fare slightly better; Swiss Re and Axa earn top marks

  • Insurers caught in crossfire of Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline

    31 May 2018

    Unfriend Coal has urged insurers to stop backing tar sands projects

  • The beginning of the end for coal investment and underwriting

    19 April 2018

    Insurers have made efforts to disengage themselves from the coal industry on both sides of the balance sheet, but climate activists say they could do more. Cintia Cheong wraps up the latest developments

  • Nearly two-thirds of insurers are not fully assessing climate risks

    23 January 2018

    Think tank reveals industry's challenge to mitigate impact of climate change

  • Swiss and French re/insurers doing most to avoid coal underwriting

    15 November 2017

    Climate activists score insurers on coal and climate change policies

  • Insurers under fire for underwriting coal industry

    10 August 2017

    Divesting from coal companies while continuing to underwrite them is a 'blind spot' of insurers' climate policies, according to campaigners. Cintia Cheong investigates what four insurers are doing about it