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• Allianz to halt investments in new oil and gas fields

  29 April 2022

  And will require 'net-zero by 2050' commitment from hydrocarbon producers

• Environmentalists highlight shortfalls in Allianz's climate targets

  15 January 2021

  Calling on divestment from polluting companies and greater details on engagement strategy

• Axa IM divests from SBI's green bonds amid Carmichael coal furore

  14 December 2020

  Manager says it engaged with SBI on the issue, and will continue to engage, potentially buying its green bonds again

• Work on coal by no means completed, activists say

  19 June 2020

  But COVID-19 offers the right timing to start focus on oil & gas

• Scor scales up coal divestment policies

  29 April 2019

  Insurer Scor has strengthened its coal exclusion policies, but it still falls short of alignment with the goals set by the Paris Climate Agreement.

• Campaign group questions Generali’s delivery on coal commitment

  24 April 2019

  Unfriend Coal calls on Italian insurer to communicate outcome of its engagement with six coal companies

• VIG updates coal investment policy

  25 February 2019

  But environmentalists argue Austrian insurer has not gone far enough with its policy

• NN Group announces tar sands investment policy

  10 October 2018

  But environmentalists call for more in light of IPCC’s call for drastic actions

• Rendez-Vous de Septembre: Clouded optimism in uncertain times

  19 September 2018

  The annual reinsurance meeting in Monte Carlo is a good barometer to measure the sector's health. This year, amid successfully managing last year's losses from natural disasters, reinsurers' indicators seem to be flashing 'green'. But uncertainty still looms like black clouds in the distance. Vincent Huck reports

• Munich Re reports 12% drop in investment result in H1

  08 August 2018

  Reinsurer simultaneously announced new climate and divestment policy