The insurance industry stands at a crossroads. As climate-related disasters surge by 57% and weather-related losses dwarf traditional risks, insurers are becoming active architects of resilience rather than passive observers. At the recent De-risking Summit 2025, industry leaders revealed how insurance is evolving from a reactive safety net into a proactive catalyst for climate adaptation.
From Risk to Resilience: How Insurance is Rewriting the Climate Playbook
The insurance industry stands at a crossroads. As climate-related disasters surge by 57% and weather-related losses dwarf traditional risks, insurers are becoming active architects of resilience rather than passive observers. At the recent De-risking Summit 2025, industry leaders revealed how insurance is evolving from a reactive safety net into a proactive catalyst for climate adaptation.
Luxembourg Stock Exchange Launches Climate Transition Data Platform for Corporate Debt Issuers
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) announced the launch of the Transition Finance Gateway, a new online platform offering aimed at enabling investors to access climate transition data on non-financial corporate debt issuers. The new platform aims to improve clarity, comparability, harmonization, and transparency for investors on the climate transition-related performance of over 500 LuxSE-listed non-financial corporate debt issuers across both…
Low Carbon Building Materials Provider Terra CO2 Raises $124 Million
Sustainable building materials provider Terra CO2 announced that it has raised $124.5 million a Series B financing round, with proceeds to be used by the company to build out its commercial facilities to produce low-cost materials for low-carbon cement. Founded in 2016, Colorado-based Terra provides high performance and environmentally sustainable solutions for the global construction materials market. The company’s OPUS…
Allianz Commercial Launches Data and Consulting Platform to Assess and Manage Climate Risks
Insurance and investment group Allianz’s commercial insurance unit, Allianz Commercial, announced the launch of Climate Adaptation & Resilience Services (CAReS), a new platform aimed at enabling companies to identify and mitigate climate risk exposures facing their businesses. According to Allianz Commercial, the new platform comes as businesses face growing climate risk management challenges, with climate change having a severe impact…
GRI Releases Draft Labor-Focused Sustainability Disclosure Standards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced today the release of two draft standards addressing how companies report on labor issues including disclosures on measures to tackle discrimination and to protect the human rights of workers. GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards are one of the most commonly accepted global standards for sustainability disclosure by companies, developed to enable consistent reporting across companies…
European Commission Proposes Target to Reduce Emissions 90% by 2040
The European Commission announced today a new proposed climate target, aiming to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the EU by 90% by 2040, compared to 1990 levels. The new target introduces several key proposed changes from the EU’s current goals, including the ability to utilize international carbon credits to achieve a portion of the 2040 target, and for…
Guest Post – Hitting Reset: Sustainable Finance Faces a Defining Second Half in 2025
By: Lorenzo Saa, Chief Sustainability Officer, Clarity AI Something shifted in the first half of 2025. The era of vague optimism and feel-good ESG slogans is over. What comes next demands harder questions, sharper tools, and a deeper tolerance for uncomfortable answers and trade-offs. We’re not watching a collapse; we’re witnessing a necessary reset. Regulation is fragmenting, political winds are…
Major UK firms on course for ‘disorderly’ green transition
UK companies are making progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but will need to move faster to meet international climate goals, according to a recently released report. Experts from the University of Exeter and J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) have jointly developed a probabilistic forecasting model, Horizon, which is used to project emissions from UK-listed firms from 2025 to 2050. …
Climeworks Raises $162 Million to Scale Carbon Removal Solutions
Zurich-based Carbon removal solutions provider Climeworks announced today that it has raised $162 million in a new equity funding round, with proceeds from the financing aimed at further developing its direct air capture (DAC) technology to reduce the cost of removals, and to expand its carbon removal portfolio service. Founded in 2009 by Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks provides…