Swiss Re Believes Insurers Should Support Biodiversity With Real Dollars

Now and then a news release comes pinging into my e-mail inbox which gladdens my heart. Admittedly, it’s a rare occurrence.

In this case, the soul celebration was spurred by an October release from Swiss Re, which announced its report, ‘Biodiversity and the Benefits for Human Health.’

The upshot? Swiss Re is suggesting that the insurance industry standardize how it measures the benefits of time spent in nature.

COVID taught us that time spent in lockdown, cut off from hiking, biking and other time spent in green spaces, was detrimental to our mental and physical health.

Ongoing loss of biodiversity overall is also having a direct impact on our collective health, the report stipulates.