Industry 'did not do enough' to prepare society for pandemic, must not fail on climate: Unfriend Coal

World environment

Having previously identified both pandemic risk and climate change as the world's "greatest threat," the insurance industry must champion a green and fair recovery from the Covid-19 crisis to help avert another emergency, NGOs have urged.

In an Unfriend Coal letter dated 27 April, signed by 25 NGOs in 11 countries and sent to the boards of 12 insurance associations spanning the globe, the insurance industry and government were taken to

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