Milliman, Inc.
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023)
Reporting Period: 2023
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Health Insurance
- Health Topics in Europe
- ESG Ratings
- Financial Stability
- Sustainability Criteria
- Climate Change
- Social Capital
- Corporate Governance
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Heterogeneous ESG rating market
- Lack of standardized methodologies for ESG ratings
- ESG factors impacting financial stability of health insurers
- Increasing regulatory requirements for sustainability
- Need to quantify sustainability criteria for insurance products
- Managing ESG risks that impact business
- Potential reputational damage from poor ESG ratings
- Risk of losing healthier customers
- Climate change vulnerability of insured assets and individuals
- Data privacy and security breaches
Mitigation Strategies
- Improving ESG ratings to avoid losing customers and attract new business
- Integrating health equity into ESG framework
- Investing in health-related areas to improve ESG ratings
- Implementing occupational health and safety policies
- Implementing health benefit programs
- Reassessing investment strategy with respect to green assets
- Improving data security and protection systems
- Providing access to insurance services to underserved markets
- Involvement in social projects for expanding access to healthcare
- Refinement of analyses performed for the ORSA (Own Risk and Solvency Assessment)
- Sustainable investment strategies
- Regular analysis of insurance benefits with respect to environmental changes and evolution of diseases
Supply Chain Management
Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities
Physical Risks
- Extreme weather events
- Wildfires
- Heat waves
Transition Risks
- Policy transition risks affecting investments in carbon-reliant assets
Reporting Standards
Frameworks Used: MSCI, Sustainable1, Sustainalytics