Climate Strategy

We're serious about climate change

We thrive at finding the intersections between helping society and winning in the marketplace. Our climate strategy has five big intentions.

Our commitments are ambitious and collaborative – and they will help us drive concrete action.

Commit

Commit to a net zero ambition overall by 2050

Adapt

Double down on helping people adapt to climate change

Shape

Leverage our platform to shape customer behaviour

Enable

Enable the transformation by supporting existing and new industries that are key to the transition

Collaborate

Collaborate with governments and industry to influence and accelerate climate action

Commit

We aim to achieve net zero emissions overall by 2050, to align with the Paris Agreement, and to halve our operations emissions by 2030.

Adapt

We’re doubling down on helping people adapt to the effects of climate change. Our partners are exploring real, concrete solutions to make our communities, our people and our economy more resilient.

Investing in natural infrastructure

Helping vulnerable communities build resiliency

Address growing need for restoration and prevention services

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Shape

Opportunities exist for us to shape climate-conscious behaviours.

Engage our customers

By engaging customers and employees, we can raise climate change awareness.

Leverage our platform

Through claims interactions and supply chain initiatives we can support climate-conscious practices.

Utilize our expertise

Through our Centre for Climate and Geospatial Analytics we can use pricing, underwriting, and data to enhance predictive models that will anticipate evolving climate-related impacts.

Enable

We’re playing an active role by supporting industries that are key to the transition.

Support new industries that are developing the tools to accelerate our progress

Support customers, partners, and investees in existing industries that are working to transform their businesses

Collaborate

We collaborate with government and industries to accelerate the most impactful climate solutions. Our involvement with Canada’s federal government’s Disaster Resilience and Security Advisory Table, the Sustainable Finance Action Council, the National Flood Insurance Task Force, and in the U.K., the Climate Financial Risk Forum, have given us a track record of providing climate expertise.

Climate Proof Canada

A coalition that is encouraging the federal government to take action now.

Geneva Association

As the think tank for the global insurance industry, The Geneva Association carries out rigorous research in collaboration with its members and their companies, academic institutions, and multilateral organizations.

ClimateWise

Global climate change and insurance industry leadership group.

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