Sustainability: How to transform into a sustainable insurance?

Do you get the most of out of your sustainability ambitions?

As risk manager, employers and investors, the insurance industry is exposed to ESG risk on many dimensions. It also plays an important role in promoting economic, social and environmental sustainability.

The involvement of insurance companies with respect to ESG issues can be characterized along four dimensions:

  1. Role as insurer (e.g. understand and price ESG related risks)

  2. Role as investor (Integrating ESG considerations into the investment process)

  3. Role as employer (Provide flexible sustainable and safe environment for a diverse workforce)

  4. Role as a corporate citizen (Managing property, business operations etc. according to predefined sustainability benchmarks)

Source: Insurance & Innovation, VVW 2020

Google's position on Sustainability

At Google we strive to build sustainability into everything we do. We are raising the bar in making smart use of the Earth’s resources throughout our supply chain and creating products with people and the planet in mind.

Google is carbon neutral today, but aiming higher: our goal is to run on carbon-free energy, 24/7, at all of our data centers by 2030. Plus, we’re sharing technology, methods, and funding to enable organizations around the world to transition to more carbon-free and sustainable systems.

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