The Case for Green Insurance
The allowance industry has absurd abeyant to advice association abode the challenges explored at COP-16. In the U.S., the National Association of Allowance Commissioners acknowledges this appropriate position in a whitepaper advantaged The Abeyant Appulse of Altitude Change on Allowance Regulation, autograph that “the allowance area is abnormally positioned amid the two ends of the climate-change spectrum- the causes and impacts…Insurers accept the potential, in befitting with their actual role, to be cogent innovators in accidental to the solutions of altitude change by managing and mitigating both the causes and the impacts of catastrophes brought on by such change.” To advice accomplish this potential, NAIC maintains a Altitude Change and All-around Warming Task Force to alike advancing assay of the appulse of altitude change on allowance consumers, allowance providers, and allowance regulators.
Perhaps even added compelling, insurers about the apple are already developing articles and behavior to abode new risks and capitalize on a sustainability aggressive business-scape. In a contempo statement, Allianz CEO Michael Diekmann acclaimed that “Climate change has added our clients’ insured losses by a agency of 15 over the accomplished 30 years. We are developing new solutions, including for approaching risks that could contrarily not be abundantly insured.