By James Wallace, RSA Group Head of Corporate Responsibility

Insurance is based on the fundamental principle of protecting risk and for many years the industry has been helping customers to manage against it. Insurers are always looking for ways to manage new and emerging risks and, in recent times, the issue of changing environment has been given top billing by many in the industry. As insurers have seen an increase in weather related claims, sustainability is rising up the agenda.

Sustainable development is loosely defined as not using more resources than the environment is able to sustain. It is about trying to achieve a balan...Read More

By David Bresch, Head Sustainability, Swiss Re.

When we talk of climate change, we tend to think of the frightening scenarios of melting ice-caps, rising sea-levels, growing carbon emissions and the like. However, the last decades of climate research have been a great source of innovation for insurers, the renewable energy industry, NGOs and governments. For example, the renewable energy industry is proving a rich breeding ground for innovative climate change mitigation technologies and the means of implementing them. Expertise in risk modeling and scenario-building is identifying cost-effective climate adaptation measures globally, and surprisingl...Read More