Lloyd’s launches consultation on insuring the transition to a lower-carbon economy

Lloyd’s, the world’s leading marketplace for insurance and reinsurance, has today launched a consultation on its roadmap for insuring the transition. The consultation sets out Lloyd’s proposed approach for the next three years across all areas of sustainability for the market, including underwriting, investments, exposure management and capital and reserving. 

The roadmap has been designed to support market participants in evolving and embedding their own sustainability strategies, including navigating evolving regulatory reporting requirements. It also aims to provide greater clarity to all stakeholders on how Lloyd’s will support customers as they respond to a volatile macro-environment, while maintaining decarbonisation and transition progress to support global ambitions to achieve net zero.  

The document sets out planned oversight processes and regulatory expectations on climate-related risk management, capital and reserving as well as transition planning. It seeks to provide short-term actionable steps that can be taken, focusing on the areas that matter. The plan will be developed and iterated in response to consultation feedback, and for future years to ensure it remains in line with government policy and regulatory requirements. 

Acknowledging that effectively planning and executing on transition plans is one of the greatest challenges businesses will face in the coming years, the details provided in the consultation can be used by brokers in their discussions with clients, as well as managing agents formulating their own transition plans, as and when is appropriate for each business.

Lloyd’s is further supporting managing agents in this area by providing guidance on new product areas, publishing thematic reviews on climate change and committing to develop a proof-of-concept for an emissions accounting measurement framework.

The consultation also includes useful resources on managing the transition risk of managing agents’ investment portfolios. In March this year, Lloyd’s launched the Private Impact Fund, for sustainability-focused assets, across themes of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation.

For further information on Lloyd’s sustainability strategy, Lloyd’s latest sustainability report, outlining the progress made in 2022 against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) is available on our website. The report also includes supplementary reporting for Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), ClimateWise and the United Nations Global Comact reporting framework.