Shaping a Brighter Future

The world is transforming at an unprecedented pace. The risks we face today are more complex, interdependent and global. At Zurich, we have the insights, capabilities, and spirit to help our customers and other stakeholders turn risk into opportunity and promote sustainable behavior.

Tools for a Resilient Future

There’s no doubt that 2023 has been a tough year – and the challenges continue. In this final episode of The Risk Opportunity, financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson talks to Amar Rahman, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of Climate Resilience for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and KPMG's Owen Matthews about running a business in the age of the polycrisis, and the tools required to build a more resilient future.

Unlock the power of resilience in your net-zero plan

Discover how a holistic risk management approach can help you mitigate climate risks, enhance resilience, and maximize opportunities for a sustainable future.

The Business of Net-Zero

As the pressure mounts to hit net-zero targets, initiatives such as the US’s Inflation Reduction Act and the EU's Green Deal Industrial Plan indicate the importance nations and political institutions are fixing on businesses to support the climate transition. Inspired by new research from Zurich Insurance Group and Horizon Group, financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson discusses operational challenges, regional disparities and the new role of the risk manager with Anita Horgosi, Zurich’s Sustainability Business Development Director for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and Fabienne Serfaty, a strategic consultant and private investor with a long-term commitment to reaching net zero.

Climate Transition - A leap from target to result

What are businesses already doing to advance the climate transition? How are they approaching the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate risks? Many companies are committed and making progress but need support from public sector stakeholders to channel investment and provide greater policy certainty around climate transition.

How To Power Climate Resilience

The race is on to reach the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming to 2°C or below – but our survival doesn't just depend on cutting emissions. Financial analyst and broadcaster Danni Hewson talks to Amar Rahman, Zurich Insurance’s Global Head of Climate Resilience for Zurich Resilience Solutions, and Dr David Lallemant, Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has developed models to better understand and reduce disaster risk. They explore what adaptation and resilience looks like in the context of climate change, and the technologies that could save us.

Listen to the Forest

Listen, just for a moment. That’s the sound of life being restored, of a habitat coming back to life. This is the story of the Zurich Forest Project. Watch the video to find out more.

Zurich is working with customers, colleagues and communities to accelerate the transition to net-zero emissions. Zurich has also joined forces with non-profit Instituto Terra for an eight-year nature restoration project in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and published a Biodiversity Report on how biodiversity metrics can make carbon markets more effective.

Using Risk To Build Resilience

Why Today’s Crisis Must Be an Opportunity To Build a Green Economy

As 2023 begins, the world is facing a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar. We have seen a return of “older” risks – inflation, cost-of-living crises, widespread social unrest, geopolitical confrontation and the spectre of nuclear warfare – which few of this generation’s business leaders and public policymakers have experienced. These are being amplified by comparatively new developments in the global risks landscape, including unsustainable levels of debt, rapid and unconstrained development of dual-use (civilian and military) technologies, and the growing pressure of climate change impacts and ambitions in an ever-shrinking window for transition to a 1.5°C world. Together, these are converging to shape a unique, uncertain and turbulent decade to come. 

This year's Global Risks Report paints a picture of serious and interconnected crises. We must use this perilous moment to move forward toward a greener and more stable global economy.

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