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  • Regulators consider capital for climate risk

    15 December 2022

    Insurance regulators are keen to ensure their prudential frameworks properly incorporate climate risk. But whether this should be reflected in capital requirements is proving a difficult question to answer, as Christopher Cundy reports

  • Insurers taking concrete steps in better climate practices, says UK regulator

    21 October 2022

    Sam Woods letter highlights risk management as key area, but work remains to be done

  • We have an open mind on capital for climate risk, says UK regulator

    19 October 2022

    Sam Woods introduces Bank of England's conference on the topic

  • Sam Woods: UK must avoid regulatory race-to-the-bottom after Brexit

    08 July 2022

    Industry reaction to Solvency II matching adjustment proposals has been "strongly negative"

  • UK climate test results: insurers told to do better

    24 May 2022

    The Bank of England has published the results of its CBES test

  • UK regulators publish two-year roadmap for insurers

    02 November 2021

    The regulators have set out the key milestones that will affect the re/insurance sector

  • PRA says capital charges are wrong tool to address climate change's causes

    28 October 2021

    But regulator acknowledges capital regimes can help combat consequences of global warming

  • UK's Climate Financial Risk Forum issues more guidance for insurers

    21 October 2021

    The second round of guides are designed to help financial firms address climate risk

  • PRA chief Sam Woods hits back at climate campaigners

    24 September 2021

    "Completely non-credible" for UK regulator to ignore climate risks

  • UK insurers reveal climate change readiness in SFCRs

    05 July 2021

    Some divulge extent of rise in claims from climate stress-tests