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Global Week of Action: Putting Insurance Industry in the Hot Seat
ByMonika 13/03/202413/03/2024

The insurance industry found itself in the spotlight last week as a Global Week of Action blossomed across the world. From February 27th to March 3rd 2024, a wave of protests, both online and in the streets, swept through the doors of insurance giants, demanding accountability over their support for polluters and decisive action on climate change.

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Success: Yet another major insurer rules out coal and oil projects
ByBlyth 05/03/202403/04/2026

After a week of peaceful protest around the world, alongside hundreds of groups, our efforts have paid off. Yet another leading insurance company, Probitas, has ruled out insuring the proposed West Cumbria coal mine and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

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✌🏿Victory!✌🏼 Leading Global Insurers Rule Out East African Crude Oil Pipeline
ByMonika 23/01/2024

After months of campaigning, five more major insurance companies have announced they will not support the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)!

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Ditch the dirty dollars – invest in our future!
ByDaniel 29/11/202307/02/2024

People hailing from Cumbria to London, and everywhere in between, descended on the Mines and Money Conference in London across two days (28th-29th Nov 2023). We demanded that investors stop pouring cash into the mining sector, and instead invest in our collective future. Together with Fossil Free London and other groups, we greeted investors with…

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5 Insurers Rule Out The West Cumbria Mine
ByMonika 22/11/202302/12/2023

The insurers that have ruled out underwriting the mine are AEGIS Managing Agency, Argenta Syndicate Management, Hannover Re and Talanx. These are the first financial institutions to rule out any involvement with the project, and the win represents a new phase in the campaign to stop the project from going ahead.

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EACOP: Global Day of Action against Chinese involvement in the pipeline
ByMonika 21/11/202322/11/2023

Today’s global actions focused specifically on the state-owned China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim), and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). Sinosure is said to be in advanced talks with the Ugandan government about providing credit for the project.

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Protesters occupy the offices of City Of London insurers demanding they rule out backing for climate-wrecking projects
ByMonika 21/11/202322/11/2023

On 18th October dozens of protesters staged a sit-in occupation of the plush City of London offices of ten Lloyd’s of London insurers demanding they rule out insuring the proposed West Cumbria coal mine and East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

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What to do when “our world needs climate action on all fronts”…?
ByCAN 04/04/202317/04/2023

In March, leading climate scientists delivered a “final warning” on climate change: act now. We’ve got five actions you can take with us to keep the pressure on the governments, financiers, insurers, and fossil fuel companies that are pushing us deeper into climate crisis.

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EACOP: Lloyd’s Cincinnati rule out pipeline while Talbot stays silent in response to protests
ByAndrew 30/03/202303/04/2026

Following a week of protests, Cincinnati Global’s syndicate at Lloyd’s confirmed that it will not insure the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, which has been the subject of international protests.

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EACOP Week of Action targets Lloyd’s Insurers Talbot & Cincinnati
ByCAN 24/02/202324/02/2023

Activists from the StopEACOP Coalition held an ‘oil spill’ demonstration outside the offices of Lloyd’s of London insurers, Talbot & Cincinnati Global Underwriting, to demand they rule out the controversial East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline.

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