A Canadian shareholder advocacy group, Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC), released a new report that outlined the role of the country’s property and casualty insurance industry in encouraging fossil fuels. It said that doing so while facing rising climate claims meant it was passing along these costs to policyholders and increasing risk.
The report, ‘Playing With Fire: Canadian Insurers and Fossil Fuels’, criticised P&C insurers and said that the industry “redistributed climate-related risks and costs to consumers and taxpayers while underwriting and investing in fossil fuels”.
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