The Climate Risk Challenge

Advocating for customers who face the climate challenge

Every day our customers tell us that they are concerned by the uncertainties surrounding climate change. At Zurich we look at these uncertainties as risks - risks that we can help our customers to manage, efficiently and sustainably - provided the right policy frameworks are in place.

As a thought leader with more than 135 years of experience managing risk, we're leveraging our expertise to advocate on behalf of our customers. By bringing our global insights to policymakers, we're building a foundation of confidence for our customers - a foundation from which they can meet the challenges associated with climate change.

In The Climate Risk Challenge, we explain to policymakers some of the key principles for engaging insurers in the climate challenge, illustrating those principles with examples from Zurich’s own experience.

Some of the key concepts from that paper:

• Insurers must be allowed use their core skills to send risk-based price signals
• Climate policy must address the global governance gap
• Climate policy must enable markets to function properly
• Climate policy must recognize the regional nature of climate change

Download The Climate Risk Challenge (pdf)