Back in the eighteenth century, the insurance industry in London incentivised widespread behaviour to mitigate fire risk by introducing the world’s first building fire codes in the form of fire marks, and then creating the world’s first organised fire services. Now 350 years later, the...

In the midst of global recession it is tempting for stakeholders especially policymakers to diminish the importance of climate change. Indeed this is a challenge confronting many insurers, and the importance of staying the course cannot be overestimated. ClimateWise is an insurance industry...