Sustainability

In­sur­ers are ma­jor in­sti­tu­tion­al in­vestors with a long-term in­vest­ment hori­zon and a pref­er­ence for safe­ty.

The in­sur­ance in­dus­try's fifth sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on the wide range of mea­sures tak­en by the in­dus­try in the ar­eas of en­vi­ron­men­tal, eco­nom­ic and so­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

The fifth pri­vate in­sur­ers’ sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port shines a light for the first time on the sus­tain­abil­i­ty gov­er­nance of the com­pa­nies sur­veyed and re­veals that two thirds of these in­sur­ers al­ready

Im­proved min­i­mum stan­dard for sus­tain­able fi­nan­cial prod­ucts and ser­vices strength­ens the cred­i­bil­i­ty of the fi­nan­cial cen­tre.

The self-reg­u­la­tion to pre­vent green­wash­ing in sus­tain­abil­i­ty-re­lat­ed unit-linked life in­sur­ance poli­cies will come in­to force on 1 Jan­u­ary 2025.

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. 

Fo­cus on fur­ther de­vel­op­ment of self-reg­u­la­tion and di­a­logue with the au­thor­i­ties 

At Build­ing Bridges, SVV part­nered with the Prin­ci­ples for Sus­tain­able In­sur­ance (PSI) to or­gan­ise a pan­el dis­cus­sion on sus­tain­abil­i­ty in un­der­writ­ing.

The fourth sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port of the in­sur­ance in­dus­try pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on the in­dus­try's wide-rang­ing mea­sures in the area of en­vi­ron­men­tal, fi­nan­cial and so­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty.