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The sixth private insurers’ sustainability report summarises the most important advances made by the industry in the 2024 reporting year.

The self-regulation to prevent greenwashing adopted by the Swiss Insurance Association SIA (hereinafter ‘self-regulation’) came into force on 1 January 2025.

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 have a sustainability strategy.

Despite the pandemic and a summer marred by bad weather, the Swiss insurance industry once again succeeded in making the various aspects of sustainability an even firmer component of its business.

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.

The first Sustainability Report of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA).