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<p>Bot: Creating definition</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>🌱 &#039;&#039;&#039;Net-Zero Insurance Alliance&#039;&#039;&#039; was an initiative launched in 2021 under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), bringing together leading [[Definition:Insurer|insurers]] and [[Definition:Reinsurer|reinsurers]] that committed to transitioning their [[Definition:Underwriting|underwriting]] portfolios to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The alliance represented the insurance industry&#039;s most prominent collective effort to align [[Definition:Underwriting|underwriting]] and [[Definition:Risk management|risk management]] practices with the goals of the Paris Agreement, complementing parallel initiatives in banking (Net-Zero Banking Alliance) and asset management (Net-Zero Asset Managers Initiative). At its peak, the NZIA included major global carriers spanning Europe, Asia, and other markets.<br /> <br /> 🔄 Members committed to setting science-based intermediate targets for their underwriting portfolios, developing methodologies to measure the [[Definition:Carbon footprint|carbon intensity]] of insured activities, and reporting publicly on their progress. This was a technically ambitious undertaking: unlike investment portfolios, where carbon metrics are relatively established, measuring the emissions attributable to an [[Definition:Underwriting portfolio|underwriting book]] — which might include everything from insuring a coal-fired power plant to covering a renewable energy installation — required new frameworks and data capabilities that the industry was still developing. Participants worked on creating common methodologies for attributing emissions to insurance policies, distinguishing between [[Definition:Property insurance|property]], [[Definition:Liability insurance|liability]], and [[Definition:Marine insurance|marine]] exposures, and addressing the challenge of [[Definition:Reinsurance|reinsurance]] treaties where the underlying risk composition may be opaque.<br /> <br /> ⚡ The NZIA&#039;s trajectory proved turbulent. Facing antitrust scrutiny — particularly from U.S. state attorneys general who argued that coordinated [[Definition:Underwriting|underwriting]] restrictions on fossil fuel clients could violate competition law — several prominent members withdrew in 2023, and the alliance was effectively dissolved. The episode highlighted a fundamental tension in [[Definition:Climate risk|climate]]-related insurance initiatives: the line between legitimate collective ambition-setting and potentially anticompetitive coordination is legally and politically contested, especially across jurisdictions with different regulatory philosophies. Despite its dissolution as a formal body, the NZIA&#039;s legacy persists in the methodological groundwork it laid for measuring underwriting-related emissions, in the individual net-zero commitments that many former members continue to pursue independently, and in the broader conversation about the insurance industry&#039;s role as a gatekeeper of economic activity through its [[Definition:Underwriting|underwriting]] decisions.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Related concepts:&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> {{Div col|colwidth=20em}}<br /> * [[Definition:Climate risk]]<br /> * [[Definition:ESG]]<br /> * [[Definition:Sustainable insurance]]<br /> * [[Definition:Underwriting]]<br /> * [[Definition:Transition risk]]<br /> * [[Definition:Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures]]<br /> {{Div col end}}</div>

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