This podcast focuses on a campaign targeting insurance companies that insure fossil fuel companies and projects.
The fossil fuel industry really depends on insurance. Unlike many other financial institutions, insurers are the professional risk managers of society.
Insurers have always been concerned about climate risks. And yet, when The Sunrise Project started their Insure Our Future Campaign, insurers were still insuring new coal, oil and gas projects. Peter Bosshard discusses how the campaign wanted to make use of this vulnerability and push critically important actors to put their money where their mouths are. The Sunrise Project is an international campaign group working to accelerate the shift of capital from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources by targeting the financial and insurance industries and getting them to stop ensuring new coal projects and new oil and gas projects
Interviewee:
Peter Bosshard
Podcast Title:
E.U. Campaign Director, The Sunrise Project
Podcast Campaign:
Insure Our Future Campaign