Climate Change
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Our Sensitive Business Risks process
In force for several years, our Sensitive Business Risks process is a tailor-made risk management tool to assess business transactions that may raise concerns from a sustainability or ethical perspective. It is now a core element of our formal framework to manage such risks.
We first introduced our “Sensitive Business Risks” (SBR) process in 2002. This new risk management tool was developed to help our underwriters, client managers and asset managers reach business decisions in line with the principles laid down in our Group Code of Conduct. Specifically, it has given them the opportunity to seek expert internal advice when they have had concerns over the environmental, social or ethical implications of a particular business transaction.
When a business transaction is submitted to the SBR process, a task force of internal sustainability and other experts will examine the case and issue a recommendation within 48 hours. The SBR process has now been fully integrated into our framework to manage environmental, social and ethical risks; as such it is compulsory whenever any of the pre-defined criteria and qualitative standards of the framework’s policies are met. In addition, employees can continue to submit cases involving industries and issues that are not covered by the framework.
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. Read the whole story
Switzerland Charity of the Year...
We are proud to announce that the “Stiftung Brunegg” was chosen as Swiss Re’s Switzerland Charity of the Year 2012. Read the whole storyFurther stories
- Providing Safe Water and Sanitation to Communities in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India
- Swiss Re and the ICRC: A knowledge-sharing partnership
- Providing clean water in Central Mindanao of the Philippines
- Making schools more resistant to earthquakes in rural Peru
- 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report
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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)
