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Tuesday 9 June 2026 – French insurer SCOR bucks the trend by introducing new restrictions in response to campaigners’ demands On Coral Triangle Day, the Insure our Future coalition reveals that most of the world’s largest insurers and reinsurers have refused to rule out support for LNG expansion in the Coral Triangle, despite mounting evidence …

LNG Expansion in the Coral Triangle Biodiversity Hotspot warns the insurance industry against underwriting fossil fuel infrastructure that directly threatens the world’s most biodiverse marine region. Known as the “Amazon of the seas,” the Coral Triangle spans six nations, sustains the livelihoods of over 360 million people, and provides an estimated $855 billion in flood …

Read the letter and risk briefing sent to the world’s leading fossil fuel (re)insurers today. Over 70 civil society organisations from more than 20 countries across 6 continents are calling on the world’s leading (re)insurers to rule out cover for fossil fuel expansion in the Coral Triangle and end their support for new fossil gas …

Immediate release: 21 April 2026 Tuesday 21 April – More than 70 organisations from over 20 countries across six continents are urging the biggest global insurance and reinsurance groups to stop providing insurance for fossil fuel projects and fossil gas expansion in Southeast Asia’s Coral Triangle due to the risks posed to the most biodiverse …

London, 5 November 2025 – (via Reclaim Finance) Lloyd’s of London is bucking the global trend by continuing to grow its fossil fuel business according to new analysis from Reclaim Finance, which finds that its estimated fossil fuel premiums have increased by 2.4% annually between 2020 and 2024, while other insurers have on average seen …

Fossil fuel exclusions are effective but Lloyd’s and Zurich play questionable roles. Insurance companies which adopted coal restrictions significantly reduced the number of coal mines and the amount of coal which they insured in the United States, thus contributing to the shift away from coal. This is the main finding of a new working paper which …

London, June 2 2025 – Reclaim Finance has published an open letter addressed to Patrick Tiernan, who begins his tenure as CEO of Lloyd’s of London on June 1st. The open letter calls on him to show real leadership on climate change in the face of spiralling climate risks, in particular by taking the first …

Cut emissions today to insure tomorrow, warns report as 2024 marks the first year to cross red line of 1.5°C global heating  Insure Our Future’s eighth annual scorecard report Within Our Power reveals that climate change accounts for an estimated $600 billion, or over a third, of global insured weather losses over the last two …

London, 9 October 2024 – Lloyd’s of London, the world’s leading insurance market, is holding back climate action through its on-going support for fossil fuel expansion, according to new analysis from Reclaim Finance (1). While other major European insurers’ no longer cover new fossil fuel projects, Lloyd’s of London continues to provide cover, with no …

London, 15 April 2024 – A major investigation into the world’s 65 largest insurance companies from the responsible investment charity ShareAction, released 11 April 2024, shows that both people and planet face the triple whammy from insurance companies underwriting and investing in projects that are increasing global warming, damaging the natural environment and failing to …

Brussels, 12 April 2024 – A new report from Finance Watch outlines the steps that must be taken to ensure effective implementation of mandatory transition plans for insurance companies as tools to support transition and manage the related risks. It outlines the urgent need for supervised “prudential” transition plans, pointing to the financial instability that …

Today, as the insurance industry convenes for the first Global Sustainable Insurance Summit in Los Angeles, the 32 campaign groups of the Insure Our Future network have sent a letter to the world’s leading fossil fuel insurers, detailing how they can accelerate the transition to a clean and just energy economy. Demands in the letter …