Interview

The re­la­tion­ship be­tween cli­mate change and bio­di­ver­si­ty, why every com­pa­ny needs cli­mate-com­pat­i­ble strate­gies and how young em­ploy­ees can be used as a sound­ing board for sus­tain­abil­i­ty. 

The SIA rec­om­mends six AI prin­ci­ples for the in­sur­ance in­dus­try. San­dra Kur­mann, Head of Frame­work Con­di­tions at the SIA, takes a stand.

What virus­es are par­tic­u­lar­ly dan­ger­ous to hu­mans? In her in­ter­view, the vi­rol­o­gist Karin Moelling ex­plains why the virus that caus­es COVID-19 was able to spread so quick­ly.

There has been a marked in­crease in In­ter­net crime. Flo­ri­an Schütz, Fed­er­al Cy­ber Se­cu­ri­ty Del­e­gate, an­swers the most press­ing ques­tions.

SIA chair­man Rolf Dörig takes a look at the cur­rent chal­lenges fac­ing the Swiss in­sur­ance in­dus­try.

In this in­ter­view, Mau­rice Di­er­ick from Swiss­grid, the na­tion­al grid com­pa­ny, ex­plains why an elec­tric­i­ty short­age is one of the biggest risks fac­ing Switzer­land.

The Swiss gov­ern­ment is cur­rent­ly work­ing on a ‘pool so­lu­tion’ to cush­ion the eco­nom­ic im­pact of fu­ture pan­demics. Ivo Men­zinger has worked on the pos­si­ble struc­tures for the so­lu­tion.

Cli­mate change is ac­cel­er­at­ing and now af­fects all ar­eas of our lives. Gun­thard Nieder­bäumer ex­plains what in­sur­ers can and should do to slow down this trend.

There is one point on which (near­ly) every­one agrees – ur­gent ac­tion is re­quired to re­form pen­sions. Christoph Schal­tegger ex­plains in an in­ter­view what pos­si­ble so­lu­tions might look like.