Long-Term Green Investments

The Commission is seeking to work with the global insurance industry to ensure that long-term green investments can be effectively taken on as assets to meet long-term life insurance liabilities.

This initiative seeks to fulfil two aims: the first is to make it easier for insurance companies to access long-term investments that in turn will make it easier for insurance companies to offer sustainable long-term returns to policyholders; the second is to widen the pool of purchasers for green investments - thus protecting the global environment.

To this end the Commission is now actively considering how it might be able to amend its approach to regulatory life insurance solvency requirements to facilitate green investments.

Given that this work is at an early stage of development, the Commission welcomes any outside interest in this subject.