The document, to be launched today (22 October) at a major UN gathering of financial service companies in Cape Town, South Africa (www.unepfi.org), reveals that senior executives from the powerful sector are convinced that in order to sustain their industry's long-term economic health, they must systematically integrate key environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into insurance company underwriting guidelines and product development, and other core operations such as investment management, claims management, and sales and marketing.
Mais il ne faut pas perdre de vue les autres périls qui nous menacent, comme la perte de biodiversité, la gestion des eaux, la croissance rapide de la population et l'urbanisation galopante et anarchique. Dans tous ces domaines comme dans bien d'autres, nous devons gérer nos économies de façon plus durable.