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The 2025 Canada wildfire season was the second worst on record
Climate

Canadian insurers need to get real about climate damages

by Matt Price and Kiera Taylor

OPINION | The Canadian insurance industry must face up to the climate crisis, not pass the buck

Climate/Winter 2025

Do ‘act of God’ clauses still work in the era of climate change?

by Mark Mann

Traditional business contracts have relied on a divine scapegoat to provide legal protection from storms and disasters, but climate change is forcing

Home insurance premiums will skyrocket following the Palisades Fire in California.
Climate

The Palisades Fire is the first big test for California’s new home insurance scheme

by Jake Bittle

California traded higher premiums for expanded coverage, but monster blazes like the ones currently devouring parts of Los Angeles could still drive

Climate

What 2024’s costly climate disasters mean for home insurance rates in 2025

by Kiera Taylor

OPINION | Rising premiums and shrinking coverage aren’t inevitable—they’re the cost of inaction. Here's what insurance companies and governments should do about

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Finance

By backing fossil fuels, insurance companies are underwriting climate disasters like Toronto’s floods

by Kiera Taylor

OPINION | The seven biggest property and casualty insurers in Canada invested more than $19.5 billion in fossil fuel assets in 2023

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Climate/Summer 2024

Zeros: Insurers are passing climate crisis costs on to homeowners while financing new fossil fuel projects

by Rick Spence

Insure Our Future wants insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects – including LNG export terminals – and make polluters

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Leadership

Meet the woman leading Canada’s sustainable finance reform

by Naomi Buck

After a trailblazing career at The Co-operators Group, Kathy Bardswick is now mobilizing capital toward achieving net-zero emissions  by 2050

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Climate Crisis/Summer 2023

Insurance giants exit net-zero pact

by Alex Robinson

Some reinsurance companies have pledged to stop insuring new oil and gas projects. So why are they quitting the UN Net-Zero Insurance

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Finance

Canada’s life insurers have a fossil fuel problem

by Matt Price and Kyra Bell-Pasht

OPINION | Burning oil, gas and coal has direct health impacts. So why do life and health insurance companies continue investing in

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