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Science and policy reports relevant to Lloyd’s of London and Managing Agents.

Environmental, Social and Governance: Lloyd’s guidance for managing agents.

Lloyd’s October 2021 ESG Guidance for Managing Agents provides comprehensive strategies for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. It includes frameworks for climate transition measurement, sustainable underwriting, responsible investment, and embedding ESG principles in decision-making, ensuring alignment with global sustainability goals and supporting multi-sector decarbonisation efforts.

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Insuring Disaster 2024

This is ShareAction’s third benchmark of the insurance sector. It assess the policies and practices of 65 of the world’s largest insurance companies across a range of environmental and social issues.

In this report, they assess three different types of insurers:

  • Life & Health (L&H) insurers
  • Insurers with a relevant property and casualty business (P&C)
  • Lloyd’s of London’s managing agents (MA)

Three ranking tables outlining the performance of insurance companies can be found in this report.

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Risk Exposure: The Insurers Secretly Backing The Methane Gas Boom in the US Gulf South

Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to climate change, insurers perpetuate climate chaos and dependence on fossil fuels by insuring new coal, oil, and gas projects while raising premiums and abandoning communities that are hit by worsening and repeat climate disasters.

A glaring example of the insurance industry’s hypocrisy is its role in supporting dangerous Liquefied “Natural” Gas (LNG) terminals across the US Gulf South. (This report will use “methane” in place of LNG, as LNG is composed mostly of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.) New research reveals the insurers are propping up methane export terminals along the US Gulf Coast even as this wave of fossil fuel expansion perpetuates human rights harms and threatens to blow past the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. At least 35 insurance companies including AIG, AXA, Allianz, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, Lloyd’s of London, SCOR, and Sompo are among some of the insurers of these terminals. Information in this report – obtained through more than 50 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests – reveals for the first time the extent and scale of specific insurers’ direct complicity in the reckless expansion of methane.

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Report containing the seventh annual rankings and analysis of 30 leading primary insurers and reinsurers, assessing their policies on insuring and investing in coal, oil and gas. The report highlights progress and loopholes, calls out leaders and laggards, and identifies challenges and opportunities for the year ahead.

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Report on impacts of global warming and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, 2018.

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Report tracking the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C, 2021.

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A Roadmap for the Energy Sector, 2021.

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Research that allows investors to evaluate their relative alignment with a net-zero transition in the real economy and to align with the latest science, 2021.

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Data analysis on how producing and combusting the world’s reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C, 2022.

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Synthesis report provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the AR6 and consists of two parts: a Summary for Policymakers and a Longer Report, 2023.

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Open Letters to Lloyd’s

Letters from campaigns, organisations, and frontline communities.

Company policies

An overview of insurance companies’ fossil fuel exclusion policies and coal, oil and gas divestment policies.

Data and policy analysis tools

A selection of publicly available databases and policy analysis tools. Most tools are updated on a regular basis.

Highlights best practices and loopholes of insurer, bank and investor oil and gas policies.

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Analyses the quality of coal policies. Counts, compares and rates the coal policies adopted by banks, insurers, asset owners and asset managers.

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Annual industry scorecard. Assesses and scores the policies of 30 major (re)insurers on insuring and investing in coal, oil, gas & tar sands.

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Database covering 887 oil and gas companies, almost 95% of global production. Provides detailed information that enables users to identify companies with expansion plans.

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Devised to help financial institutions navigate the complicated landscape of coal-based business models. It offers key statistics on over 900 parent companies and 1,800 subsidiaries operating along the thermal coal value chain.

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Publications

Science and policy reports relevant to Lloyd’s of London and Managing Agents.

Environmental, Social and Governance: Lloyd’s guidance for managing agents.

Lloyd’s October 2021 ESG Guidance for Managing Agents provides comprehensive strategies for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. It includes frameworks for climate transition measurement, sustainable underwriting, responsible investment, and embedding ESG principles in decision-making, ensuring alignment with global sustainability goals and supporting multi-sector decarbonisation efforts.

Read More

Insuring Disaster 2024

This is ShareAction’s third benchmark of the insurance sector. It assess the policies and practices of 65 of the world’s largest insurance companies across a range of environmental and social issues.

In this report, they assess three different types of insurers:

  • Life & Health (L&H) insurers
  • Insurers with a relevant property and casualty business (P&C)
  • Lloyd’s of London’s managing agents (MA)

Three ranking tables outlining the performance of insurance companies can be found in this report.

Read More

Risk Exposure: The Insurers Secretly Backing The Methane Gas Boom in the US Gulf South

Insurance companies are supposed to protect us from catastrophic risks. Yet when it comes to climate change, insurers perpetuate climate chaos and dependence on fossil fuels by insuring new coal, oil, and gas projects while raising premiums and abandoning communities that are hit by worsening and repeat climate disasters.

A glaring example of the insurance industry’s hypocrisy is its role in supporting dangerous Liquefied “Natural” Gas (LNG) terminals across the US Gulf South. (This report will use “methane” in place of LNG, as LNG is composed mostly of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.) New research reveals the insurers are propping up methane export terminals along the US Gulf Coast even as this wave of fossil fuel expansion perpetuates human rights harms and threatens to blow past the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. At least 35 insurance companies including AIG, AXA, Allianz, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, Lloyd’s of London, SCOR, and Sompo are among some of the insurers of these terminals. Information in this report – obtained through more than 50 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests – reveals for the first time the extent and scale of specific insurers’ direct complicity in the reckless expansion of methane.

Read More

Report containing the seventh annual rankings and analysis of 30 leading primary insurers and reinsurers, assessing their policies on insuring and investing in coal, oil and gas. The report highlights progress and loopholes, calls out leaders and laggards, and identifies challenges and opportunities for the year ahead.

Read More

Report on impacts of global warming and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, 2018.

Read More

Report tracking the discrepancy between governments’ planned fossil fuel production and global production levels consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C or 2°C, 2021.

Read More

A Roadmap for the Energy Sector, 2021.

Read More

Research that allows investors to evaluate their relative alignment with a net-zero transition in the real economy and to align with the latest science, 2021.

Read More

Data analysis on how producing and combusting the world’s reserves would yield over 3.5 trillion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, over seven times the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C, 2022.

Read More

Synthesis report provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the AR6 and consists of two parts: a Summary for Policymakers and a Longer Report, 2023.

Read More

Data and policy analysis tools

A selection of publicly available databases and policy analysis tools. Most tools are updated on a regular basis.

Highlights best practices and loopholes of insurer, bank and investor oil and gas policies.

Read More

Analyses the quality of coal policies. Counts, compares and rates the coal policies adopted by banks, insurers, asset owners and asset managers.

Read More

Annual industry scorecard. Assesses and scores the policies of 30 major (re)insurers on insuring and investing in coal, oil, gas & tar sands.

Read More

Database covering 887 oil and gas companies, almost 95% of global production. Provides detailed information that enables users to identify companies with expansion plans.

Read More

Devised to help financial institutions navigate the complicated landscape of coal-based business models. It offers key statistics on over 900 parent companies and 1,800 subsidiaries operating along the thermal coal value chain.

Read More
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