Just as where you bank and what credit card you use play a role in the broader financial system, so too does where you get your home, renters, and auto insurance.
Just as where you bank and what credit card you use play a role in the broader financial system, so too does where you get your home, renters, and auto insurance. The role of property insurance has become painfully clear in recent years, as large insurance companies cancel or limit policies for people in climate-vulnerable areas while raising rates for the rest of us.
Yet even as they push climate losses onto policy holders, the nation’s major insurance companies continue to support the chief cause of the climate crisis -- the burning of fossil fuels – by issuing insurance policies for fossil fuel projects and investing our premiums into fossil fuel companies.
Check out the resources below to learn how the largest US insurance companies are insuring and investing in fossil fuels – then look for better insurance in Green America’s first-of-its-kind Responsible Insurance Directory. Finally, see our guide on how to make the switch.
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From the most recent issue of our magazine, Green American, where we update readers on the progress we've made over the last quarter on climate, finance, food, labor, social justice, and more.
We made tremendous progress…
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