InsuranceERM's Global Climate Risk & Sustainability Awards

In an extremely close contest, Ben Howarth, chief sustainability officer at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), is highly commended in the climate and sustainability champion of the year award category.

Alex Hindson, a partner and head of sustainability at risk, advisory and audit firm Crowe UK, has been named InsuranceERM's climate and sustainability champion of the year.

A joint submission from US specialty managing general agent (MGA), kWh Analytics, and specialty re/insurer Aspen - focusing on solar and renewable projects - shone out in the climate and sustainability collaboration award category.

Crowe UK has scooped InsuranceERM's climate and sustainability consultancy of the year award in recognition of how it has helped several major insurers develop sustainability and climate capabilities across their insurance and asset management businesses.

Rebecca Lea, senior policy adviser at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), wins the climate and sustainability rising star of the year title for her achievements that have benefitted the association and the entire sector.

The Credit Suisse Insurance Linked Strategies (CSILS) team wins this award for its pioneering work on developing a CSILS ESG framework for insurance-linked securities (ILS), and in particular for catastrophe (cat) bonds.

GRESB has crunched the competition like it crunches environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data to pick up InsuranceERM's climate data provider of the year award.

Normative picks up the climate regulatory and reporting solution of the year at InsuranceERM's inaugural climate risk and sustainability awards.

Praedicat has built a successful product, CoMeta, helping casualty re/insurers identify and quantify emerging risks that might give rise to significant aggregate claims.

Moody's wins climate risk modelling solution of the year for providing insurers with a long-term perspective on the challenge of climate risk.

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) wins climate risk research paper of the year for its report The Emperor's New Climate Scenarios - a warning for financial services.

WTW wins another award involving its parametric insurance programme for the Meso-American Reef (MAR) fund, making it InsuranceERM's 2023 climate-smart initiative of the year title.

Conning wins the award for climate stress-testing solution of the year for an innovative climate economics model combined with software that helps insurers with one of their most important tasks: understanding the financial market impacts of climate change.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) attained the nature/biodiversity initiative of the year title for the guide it launched in July 2023 that is designed to increase awareness of nature risks and help its members become more "nature positive".

WTW scoops the award for sustainable insurance initiative of the year for developing the world's first child-sensitive parametric insurance solution to support UNICEF's response to tropical cyclones.

Aviva wins this award for its pioneering work to understand and manage the climate risks in its assets and liabilities, pushing forward the sustainability of its business and products,...