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New briefing: Swiss Re’s transition from climate leader to laggard

Zurich, Thursday 17 June 2026 – Read The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Reinsurance Industry’s Approach to Fossil Fuels here. A new briefing from the Insure Our Future campaign finds that the world’s largest reinsurers are taking increasingly different approaches to fossil fuel expansion, with Swiss Re emerging as a key laggard while …

Coral Triangle Day: Most Insurers Refuse to Rule Out LNG Expansion in World’s Richest Marine Ecosystem

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 …

Conflict, Chokepoints, and Climate: Why insurers should rethink LNG

The escalating conflict in the Middle East has quickly become a humanitarian crisis in the immediate region and an economic/energy crisis in countries dependent on the supply of oil and gas that normally flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Thousands of people have died and been injured, millions have been displaced, and millions more around …

Munich Re’s Revised Fossil Fuel Policy: What Changed, What Didn’t, What’s Next

(Correction: Munich Re’s updated investment policy applies restrictions on any new gas infrastructure, not just new LNG terminals. The text has been corrected.) Last month, Munich Re became the first major reinsurer to restrict the insurance of some new LNG infrastructure. The company updated its fossil fuel policy just weeks after its December Climate Ambition …

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