Sustainability and the Insurance Market Trends and Challenges

This open access book focuses on the regulatory framework for the sustainability of the insurance market. It analyzes its potential impact on insurance undertakings governance and product design. The book is structured into three parts. It firstly explores the general framework on the sustainability for the insurance market, focusing on the regulation at the European Union level. Secondly, it examines sustainability and insurers' governance, including topics like sustainable investments and ESG factors. Finally, the book turns to sustainability and insurance products, addressing agricultural insurance systems and pensions.

The book is aimed at academics, policymakers, and professionals in the insurance sector.

Part I – The General Framework on the Sustainability for the Insurance Market: Principles for Sustainable Insurance: The European Perspective by Javier Vercher-Moll.- Sustainability Reporting Regulation: A Perspective Since the Insurance Market by Juan Bataller Grau.- Sustainability of the EU Insurance Markets and Adequacy of Insurance Regulation – Solvency II and ESG by Marcin Kawinski.- The Multiple Functions of Insurers in the Blue Economy by Lucia Anzanello.- Part II – Sustainability and Insurers’ Governance: The Relevance of Governance in the Insurance Sector Within the Framework of Sustainable Investments by Jaume Llorca Galiana.- Sustainable Investment Challenges from the Perspective of Insurance Companies in the European and Polish Market by Marianna Cicirko.- Rating “Social” within the EU law on the ESG Factors: The Relevance for the Insurance Industry and the Risk of “Social Washing” by Pierpaolo Marano and Maria del Val Bolívar Onoro.- Part III – Sustainability and Insurance Products: Pre-Contractual ESG Disclosure on Insurance-Based Investment Products by Isabel Rodríguez Martínez.- Sustainability of Agricultural Insurance Systems: Challenges from a European Approach by Alicia Mateos-Ronco.- Pension and Sustainability. The Case of Employee Capital Plans in Poland by Janina Petelczyc.

Juan Bataller-Grau is a full professor of Business Law at Universitat de València in Spain.

Marcin Kawinski is Associate Professor at Warsaw School of Economics and Head of Social Insurance Department.

Pierpaolo Marano is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting of the University of Malta, the Faculty of Economics at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Business, Management and Economics at the University of Latvia, Riga.