Target 11.b: Integrated disaster-resilience policies
By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, and develop and implement, in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, holistic disaster risk management at all levels
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
Adopting integrated resilience and climate plans is a city and national task. The Sendai Framework's own private-sector channel, the ARISE network established by UNDRR, invites companies to commit voluntarily to support its implementation. Reinsurers create pricing signals that push cities toward resilience. Swiss Re reports six consecutive years of insured losses above 100 billion dollars and links 2025 wildfire losses to expansion into hazard-prone areas. If insurers, utilities and infrastructure firms championed local resilience plans and provided risk data and capital, cities would adopt plans faster. The core outcome, the number of cities implementing such plans, depends on municipal governance and public finance. It therefore sits largely outside owner reach.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.
Every rating is the higher of two answers, one for what companies do and one for what they spend to stop the outcome, because the same vote reaches both. See the full method.
Sources
What civil society organizations are helping owners on this
Filed a proposal at Chubb asking the insurer to measure and disclose the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its underwriting and investment, framed against rising insured losses from natural catastrophes.
Co-filed the 2024 Chubb proposal on disclosure of insurance-associated emissions.
1 campaign on record
Measure and disclose greenhouse gas emissions from underwriting, insuring and investment activities in high-carbon companies.
With Green Century Capital Management
Result: 28.3 percent shareholder support. The filers noted annual insured losses from US natural catastrophes now routinely approach 100 billion dollars, against 4.6 billion dollars in 2000.
How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
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