Insurers & Sustainability - Playing with fire.

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ID United Nations Environment Programme

2004
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Contents

Foreword 1

Executive summary 3

Insurance & Sustainability – Playing with fire 6

SRI performance & benchmarks 16

A plea for a structured SRI approach.16

Triple bottom line rating: David beats Goliath 28

Sustainability rating .29

Climate change – some like it hot 46

Is the climate really changing? 48

Climate change & insurers .68

Gene technology – brave new world 90

Opportunities and risks for insurers 90

Gene technology: the challenge of the 21st century.91

Survey results.98

Geopolitical risks – uncertain times 106

‘SARS risks‘ 108

Terrorism risks .112

Emerging markets – a sustainability nexus .123

Company profiles 140

Appendix 152

Survey results ‘SARS risks‘ 152

Abbreviations .155

References.157

Useful Links159