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                <span class="authors pf-author"><a href="/author/suzanne-dhaliwal">Suzanne Dhaliwal</a></span> <span class="timestamp"><abbr class="published" title="2017-09-07T10:34:43+01:00">7 September 2017</abbr></span>            </div>
        
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                <p>Insurance firms recognise the risks of climate
chaos – but they’re still underwriting major new fossil fuel projects.
Campaigners are calling on them to stop. </p>                            </div>

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                <p><span class='wysiwyg_imageupload image imgupl_floating_none 0'><a href="//cdn.opendemocracy.net/files/imagecache/wysiwyg_imageupload_lightbox_preset/wysiwyg_imageupload/549093/Hurricane_Harvey_approaching_Texas_IR.png" rel="lightbox[wysiwyg_imageupload_inline]" title=""><img src="//cdn.opendemocracy.net/files/imagecache/article_xlarge/wysiwyg_imageupload/549093/Hurricane_Harvey_approaching_Texas_IR.png" alt="" title="" width="460" height="259" class="imagecache wysiwyg_imageupload 0 imagecache imagecache-article_xlarge" style="" /></a> <span class='image_meta'></span></span><em>Image: Hurricane Harvey gathering force, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hurricane_Harvey_approaching_Texas_IR.png">Wikimedia</a>.</em></p><p>The devastating impacts of climate change are
everywhere right now - from the floods that left millions uprooted in Asia this summer, to the
onslaughts of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. </p>

<p>The insurance industry was one of the first to
acknowledge the risks of climate change – but it continues to underwrite coal
and fossil fuel projects: mines, power plants and pipelines. The insurance
companies continuing to back coal projects are driving runaway climate change,
devastating communities and impacting vital water and ecosystems – even as they
claim to be leaders in sustainable development and the transition to a clean
energy economy.</p>

<p>This July, climate activists attending the
annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/unfriendcoal/videos/?ref=page_internal">Global
Insurance Forum</a> in London <a href="http://www.internationalinsurance.org/events/global-insurance-forum/london-2017/about-the-forum/">urged
the global insurance industry</a> to show their commitment to insuring the
world against climate chaos by stopping underwriting coal projects in the next
six months. </p>

<p>Unfurling a banner with the words “World’s
Best insurance? Keeping Coal in the Ground” the activists talked to conference
attendees about the failure of the insurance industry to protect society from
climate risk.</p>

<p>The intervention at the London conference
comes only weeks after <a href="http://unfriendcoal.com/2017/06/16/ngos-crash-global-insurance-meet-in-sf-demanding-exit-from-coal/">activists
disrupted a gathering of industry bosses in San Francisco</a>. Their demands
were threefold - stop insuring coal projects and divest from coal companies. Develop
plans to move away from other fossil fuels. Scale up their investments in clean
energy sources.</p>

<p>The demands on the insurance industry are the
next step in the global divestment movement has emerged in the last few years, demanding
banks pull financing and investment away from coal and fossil fuels.&nbsp; </p>

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/divestlondon?lang=en">Divest London</a> and <a href="http://ww.no-tar-sands.org/">UK Tar Sands Network</a> joined the call on
all public and private institutions in London to cut ties with the reckless
fossil fuel industry. London serves as global centre for financing coal projects
all over the globe. These projects are pushing us further into climate chaos
and delaying the inevitable transition in both our energy systems and economic
paradigm.</p>

<p>We need to shift the flow of capital rapidly
away from coal. The money the power industry currently plans to spend on new
coal plants <a href="void(0)">could
instead provide electricity to 1.2 billion people</a> currently living without
it, and boost solar photovoltaic and wind power installation by 30 percent.</p>

<p>French insurance company <a href="http://unfriendcoal.com/2017/04/26/first-big-insurer-quits-coal-as-new-campaign-targets-insurers-hypocrisy-on-climate/">Axa
have already committed to stop underwriting coal</a> amidst <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/axa-divest-high-risk-coal-funds-due-threat-climate-change">growing
nervousness in the global insurance industry</a> of the calculable risks posed
by climate change to the company’s reputation, the economy and our communities.</p>

<p>We are seeing an increasing wave of activism
on the insurance industry. Every time a new fossil fuel project is built, it
needs to be insured. Stop the insurance, stop the project. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change?CMP=fb_gu">Just
100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions</a>, with major European insurers amongst
them, holding assets in companies which are planning to develop large scale new
coal power plants. So taking action in Europe over the next few months will be
essential. </p>

<p>We need the insurance
industry and analysts to take urgent action on what they already know and what
frontline communities and scientists have long been saying. The impacts of
climate change pose massive risks to society and the stability of the global
economy. It is imperative that the insurance industry continue to <a href="http://insuranceassetmanagement.net/iam/European-insurers-hold-361m-of-assets-in-coal-power-plant-firms.php">transition
away from underwriting coal and highly polluting fossil fuels immediately</a>
and shift to scale up investments in renewable technology. </p>

<p>Written by Suzanne Dhaliwal in collaboration
with Divest London and <a href="http://unfriendcoal.com/">Unfriend Coal</a>.</p>                            </div>

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