Greening Insurance
While climate change poses potential threats to the insurance industry, it also offers enormous opportunities for innovation. Just as insurers historically had a constructive role in founding the first fire departments, building codes, and vehicle safety testing, they have now an opportunity to develop creative products and services to minimize the causes and effects of climate change.
As of 2008, this website and the associated reports document 643 examples from 246 insurance companies, brokers, and organizations in 29 countries. To submit updates, corrections, or new examples via our online database:
From Risk to Opportunity: A Periodic Review of Insurer Responses to Climate Change
- 2008 [Summary] [PDF]
- 2007 [PDF]
- Summary [PDF]
- 2006 [PDF]
- 2003 [PDF]
- 1999 [PDF]
- Acknowledgments
- Categories of insurer activities
- References
- Corporate Social Responsibility Reports
Examples of Insurer Climate Change Sites
- AIG (USA)
- Allianz (Germany)
- Insurance Australia Group (Australia)
- Lloyd's of London
- Marsh (USA)
- Tokio Marine Group (Japan)
- Munich Re (Germany)
- Swiss Re (Switzerland)
Trade Associations with Climate Change Activities
- Association of British Insurers (UK)
- Malaysia Insurance Institute (Malaysia) [PDF]
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners (USA)
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (USA)
- United Nations Environment Programme's Finance Initiative
