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Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School, Tufts University

Republicans' anti-ESG attack may be silencing insurers, but it isn’t changing their pro-climate business decisions

Insurers are facing rising costs from effects of climate change. © Marco Bottigelli/Moments via Getty Imagse

Over recent months there has been an orchestrated pushback against investors and insurers who integrate the risks of climate change into their business models. That pushback – emanating from Republican-led states – is having an impact on how companies speak publicly. But whether it will affect their efforts to respond to climate change is less clear.

The latest targets have been global insurance companies, and their responses offer some insight.

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