Sustainability

At Build­ing Bridges, SVV part­nered with the Prin­ci­ples for Sus­tain­able In­sur­ance (PSI) to or­gan­ise a pan­el dis­cus­sion on sus­tain­abil­i­ty in un­der­writ­ing.

The fourth sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port of the in­sur­ance in­dus­try pro­vides in­for­ma­tion on the in­dus­try's wide-rang­ing mea­sures in the area of en­vi­ron­men­tal, fi­nan­cial and so­cial sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

In its fourth year now, the pri­vate in­sur­ers’ sus­tain­abil­i­ty re­port has demon­strat­ed that sus­tain­abil­i­ty is tak­en in­to ac­count at all stages in the val­ue chain.

The Prin­ci­ples for Sus­tain­able In­sur­ance serve as a glob­al frame­work for in­sur­ers for in­te­grat­ing ESG cri­te­ria in­to their busi­ness process­es. 

Sus­tain­able fi­nance aims to ful­fil sus­tain­abil­i­ty tar­gets through a tar­get­ed flow of funds. But it’s about more than just cli­mate-neu­tral in­vest­ment.

With their six in­di­ca­tors, the Swiss Cli­mate Scores cre­ate trans­paren­cy and pro­mote in­vest­ment de­ci­sions that con­tribute to achiev­ing cli­mate goals.

The test checks the port­fo­lios of fi­nan­cial com­pa­nies for their cli­mate com­pat­i­bil­i­ty in a cur­rent po­si­tion as­sess­ment us­ing the PACTA method. The re­sults of the third edi­tion are now avail­able.

The pro­por­tion of fi­nanc­ing so­lu­tions, as­sets and pre­mi­ums com­mit­ted to the net-ze­ro tar­get is in­creas­ing.

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.