ClimateWise work with policy makers aiming to deliver a new global deal on climate change

There is no industry better placed to take an objective, global view of risk than the insurance industry.

For a number of years, ClimateWise members have come together to issue joint statements to governments negotiating a global deal on climate change under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They do this having voluntarily committed to a holistic set of actions on climate change (articulated via the ClimateWise Principles) and reporting on their actions every year in public.

Ahead of the UNFCCC negotiations in Cancun in December 2010 (COP 16), the ClimateWise Chairman issued this open letter to negotiators.

The group's previous statement, launched in Cape Town at the UNEP Finance Initiative Global Roundtable in October 2009 ahead of the negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009 (COP 15) is available here.

ClimateWise Chairman, Andrew Torrance (CEO, Allianz Insurance) launches the ClimateWise Copenhagen Statement in Cape Town, October 2009