Global RiskScan 2026: Cyber, Climate & AI Reshape Insurance Risks
RiskScan 2026 reveals how cyber, climate, AI, inflation and business interruption are converging to reshape insurance priorities and risk management
ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are used to assess how companies manage environmental impact, social responsibilities and corporate governance. Explore the latest ESG news, sustainable investing, climate risk, regulation, corporate responsibility and developments affecting insurers, investors and financial markets.
Climate Disasters Expose Huge Protection Gap as Insurance Remains Underused
Hurricane Melissa and Asian floods show insurance’s role in adaptation, yet coverage is scarce. Philanthropy, bundling and aggregation could shift that
Canada’s Climate Risk Strategy: Insurance, ESG & Fragmentation
Canada’s climate risk strategy spans planning, legislation, financial regulation, federal operations and international engagement
Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Strategic & Operational Impacts on the Insurance Sector
Geoeconomic fragmentation makes managing global risks like climate, cyber, and pandemic risks more difficult for insurance and reinsurance sectors
Environmental & Climate Risk: Leading Concern for Insurers in 2025
Economic instability continues to push sustainability lower on the corporate agenda. In the current economic environment executives are focusing on the ESG risks
EU Public-Private Reinsurance Scheme for Climate-Related Losses
EU insurance markets could gain if recent proposals for a bloc-wide public-private reinsurance scheme for climate-related losses move forward
EIOPA’s Fossil Fuel Proposals Pose Minimal Impact on European Insurers’ Ratings
European insurers’ ratings will remain unaffected by the proposed capital surcharges on fossil fuel-related assets, according to EIOPA
Climate Change Resilience in Global P&C Insurance: Profitability & Underwriting
Primary insurers have varying levels of exposure to climate risk, with the property and casualty insurance markets in the US and Japan identified as the most sensitive
El Niño & La Niña. Direct Impact for Insurance Industry
Insurance alone cannot help protect the region from disruption caused by severe weather events brought by El Niño and La Niña
Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero Scales Up Climate Action by Insurers
Forum for Insurance Transition to Net Zero (FIT), a new UN-led and convened structured dialogue and multistakeholder forum
Impact of Climate Change on Health & Life Insurance Industries
In the insurance industry, understanding of the risks related to climate change is mostly concentrated in P&C business lines as well as investments
ESG Related-Risks for Directors & Officers. Survey 2024
ESG continues to be a high ranking risk factor to directors and officers. What are the different risk rankings across regions and what elements of the “E”, the “S” or the “G”
NatCat Insured & Economic Losses Increases Due to Climate Change
Climate change will have a larger impact on economic losses in the future, according to Swiss Re Institute. A new analysis of 36 countries ranks
Insurance Can Minimize the Renewable Energy Transition Risks
The insurance sector should engage with the developers of a fast-developing new technology that may be crucial to the renewable energy transition
Insurance Industry Transition to a Net-Zero Emissions Economy
The transition to a net-zero emissions economy is the economic revolution of our times and insurance must once again rise to the challenge
How Can Insurers Adapt New Directions to Achieve Net Zero?
Insurers are under pressure to adapt to new frameworks for reaching net zero — but regulators are pushing at an open door
Prediction for Energy Infrastructure & Insurance Development
IMCA predict over $800bn will be allocated to new developments and re/insurance cover by 2030, but major challenges must be tackled if this expenditure is to succeed
3 Ways How Re/Insurers Can Accelerate Net Zero & Decarbonization
The emerging impacts of climate change are increasingly felt across the re/insurance industry, with much uncertainty ahead. But the industry now has a chance to transform
Innovative Insurance Solutions for Blue Economy & Sustainability
Insurance aims to protect against insurable perils. The blue economy globally is worth an estimated USD 2.5 trillion annually
Re/Insurers’ Survey about ESG Strategy & Climate Risk Modelling
Moody’s survey was to determine the current level of climate integration into their risk management and reporting processes while learning about insurers’ plans in this area
Cyber Risks, Climate Change & ESG – Main Challenges for Insurance Industry
Climate change, ESG responsibilities and cyber risks are just some of the key concerns facing the insurance industry in 2024, according to Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
4 Key Benchmarks for Insurers to Implement ESG Investment Strategy
FCA review into ESG benchmarks and noted that these benchmarks are poor, and do not provide sufficient information for users to understand the purpose
Climate-Related Risks in the Insurance Sector
Climate change is an overarching global threat and a source of financial risk in the Insurance Sector, according to recent report, the United Nations
Insurance CEO’s Priorities to Drive Insurer Growth — Digital Technology, Talent & ESG
With swirling changes across the industry, KPMG surveyed 134 insurance CEOs, to gather their insights and perspectives on the industry and economic landscapes over the next 3 years
How Insurance Companies Are Preparing for a Net-Zero Future?
The insurance industry has had to rethink its business strategies to prepare for more ambitious decarbonization initiatives across sectors
How Insurers are Contributing to Social Sustainability? Role of Insurance in ESG
The ESG movement has grown from a corporate social responsibility initiative launched by the UN into a global phenomenon that is reshaping the asset management
Most Significant Insurers Steps to Build ESG Infrastructure
Many insurers around the world have taken significant steps to build an organizational infrastructure addressing the multitude of challenges posed by ESG
Cyber Security & Insurance Increasing Through the ESG Lens
Cyber security has long been seen as an IT issue but today’s booming digital economy means this is no longer the case
Insurance Sustainable Finance: How Insurers Can Embed ESG into Finance?
Insurers have an opportunity to adopt business models that generate long-term value (LTV) for their customers, investors, employees and the wider community
How ESG to Reshapes the Future of Re/Insurance?
As one of the hottest topics in the insurance industry in recent years, corporate ESG matters now top the strategic agendas of senior business leaders
Why Insurers can’t Afford to be ESG Spectators? 8 Tips for Insurance Industry
Discover eight key tips to help insurers respond to the risks and opportunities of the growing scrutiny of their performance and identity through an ESG lens
Global Private Equity Responsible Investment Survey: ESG Strategy & Implementation
The past few years have seen a fundamental shift in focus within Private Equity (PE) when it comes to ESG strategy and implementation
Global research with insurance leaders examines why AI investment often remains tied to existing processes and how insurers are redesigning operating models
RiskScan 2026 reveals how cyber, climate, AI, inflation and business interruption are converging to reshape insurance priorities and risk management
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