Memberships

2008

Swiss Re is a founding member of the Swiss Climate Foundation, which will support concrete measures at reducing CO2 emissions and increasing energy efficiency. The foundation will enable donating firms to invest net gains from re-distributed CO2 levies back into suitable projects.

2007

Swiss Re became a member of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). CDP provides a secretariat for the world's largest institutional investor collaboration on the business implications of climate change. CDP represents an efficient process whereby many institutional investors collectively sign a single global request for disclosure of information on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. More than 1,000 large corporations report on their emissions through this web site. 

2006

Swiss Re became a partner of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) which addresses four of today’s most urgent global problems: climate change/energy; poverty; public health; and ethnic and religious conflict. Since it is our business to take financial risk onto our balance sheet – from across the globe and often over a time span of decades – we need to excel at understanding, anticipating, and acting on global risk trends. This ties Swiss Re closely to the priority areas of the Clinton Global Initiative. See our commitment to the CGI

Swiss Re joined Clean Air Charter, a business-led initiative for better air quality in Hong Kong. Supported by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC), the Business Coalition on the Environment (HKBCE) is leading an effort by Hong Kong’s business sector to combat air pollution and improve air quality in the Greater Pearl River Delta. The focal point of the project is a campaign to engage the government, the business sector and the community in a collective effort

2005

Swiss Re became a partner of the Davos Climate Alliance (DCA), initiated by the World Economic Forum together with Forum members and partners . The aim of this Initiative is to raise awareness of global warming. It encourages all World Economic Forum participants to attend the WEF meetings carbon-free: that is, to offset voluntarily their meeting-related CO₂ emissions.

2004

Swiss Re has supported The Climate Group, an independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing business and government leadership on climate change. In 2005, John Coomber, member of the Swiss Re Board of Directors and former CEO, joined The Climate Group’s Board of Trustees. In 2006, Chris Walker, Head of Sustainability Business Development, was seconded to The Climate Group as part of an 18-month assignment to launch the organisation’s operations in the Eastern United States.

2000

Swiss Re was a signatory investor in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) upon its inception in 2000. The CDP is a joint effort by the world's largest institutional investors, who since 2002 have requested the world’s largest quoted companies to disclose investment-relevant information on their greenhouse gas emissions.

1995

Swiss Re has been an active member of the UNEP FI Insurance Initiative and its Climate Change Working Group (CCWG), which it has also chaired. The CCWG seeks to raise awareness and communicate with financial institutions, policymakers and the public at large on the problem of climate change. See the related publications

2006

Swiss Re joined the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change, in cooperation with the Australian Conservation Foundation. The Roundtable was formed to advance the understanding of business risks and opportunities associated with climate change, and to help develop an effective policy framework and the market conditions for a low-carbon future. Swiss Re supported the development of the report ”The Case for Early Action” .

2005

Swiss Re joined the Chicago Climate Exchange. The Exchange’s ultimate objectives are to build the institutions and skills necessary for the cost-effective management of greenhouse gas emissions, and to inform the debate on measures in the United States, Canada and Mexico that are appropriate for managing the global climate change risk.

Swiss Re’s first exchange transaction was an investment in IdleAire, a company that provides electrical hook-ups for long-haul truck drivers to use while resting or sleeping, allowing them to shut off their engines, conserve fuel and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

1999

Swiss Re became a member of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) on its founding in 1999. IETA is a non-profit organisation aimed at establishing a functional international framework for trading greenhouse gas emission reductions. IETA members seek to develop a trading regime that will result in real, verifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and at the same time balance economic efficiency with environmental integrity and social equity.