Reinsurance Meeting: Protest on Augustaplatz

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Orange smoke, blocked entrances and a poison-green fountain on Augustaplatz: several climate protection groups once again protested at the Reinsurance Meeting in Baden-Baden. Their criticism was mainly focused on the Munich Re and their decision to withdraw from several international climate protection initiatives. The industry presented itself as sustainable, but it fueled climate change, according to the accusation. The fountain on Augustaplat…

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Baden-Baden is a period of renewal. The activists in Baden-Baden also take this to heart and renew their demands on the reinsurers during the reinsurance meeting. These are no longer supposed to secure new fossil projects and gradually end existing engagements. Some participants quite understand the protests. The article Protests in Baden-Baden: Climate groups throw reinsurers Greenwashing first appeared on today's insurance industry.