Climate Change
A key topic at Swiss ReRead more
Corporate responsibility
We have a long-standing commitment to corporate responsibility and strive to implement this across our business. Our performance has received high ratings from independent third-party organisations.
Comprehensive commitment
Swiss Re is committed to being a responsible company. Based on our Code of Conduct, we have a strategic approach in place that defines and drives key activities across the Group.
A climate change pioneer
We identified climate change as a major sustainability challenge almost 20 years ago. Ever since, we have put a special focus on this topic and created a number of innovative responses.
Accountability
We wish to be accountable to our stakeholders and regularly disclose information on our corporate responsibility performance. Swiss Re is a signatory to the UN Global Compact and is listed on leading sustainability indexes and ratings.
More about our Corporate responsibility management
Local volunteering & charity programmes
At Swiss Re we do not consider the places where our staff live and work as locations. For us they are communities that we belong to. And since belonging to a community is not a one-way street, we participate... Read the whole story
Swiss Re Civilian Service Prize...
At a ceremony on 8 May 2012, Walter B. Kielholz, Chairman of Swiss Re, awarded the 2012 Civilian Service Prize (Milizpreis) to Peter Schuppli, founder and president of the "Tele D" foundation, a private... Read the whole storySustainability Solutions
2010 Corporate Responsibility Report
The report highlights how we use our risk expertise to create sustainable value for our stakeholders and society as a whole.Download the report (22MB)
The ReSource Award
Find out more about the Award, what projects qualify and how you can apply.Go to resourceaward.org
SAM supersector leader
We are the 2011/2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes insurance sector leaderMore about the DJSI
