Reporting profile and reporting frameworks

Our Sustainability Report is an essential part of Swiss Re’s commitment to sustainability and is our primary means of reporting progress on the implementation of our Group Sustainability Strategy. To get the full view of how we provide accountability to all our stakeholders, the Sustainability Report should be read in conjunction with the Annual Report, the report published by the Swiss Re Foundation and additional information available on our website.

The Sustainability Report 2021 covers the entire Swiss Re Group as it was organised on 31 December 2021, ie the publicly listed holding company Swiss Re Ltd, its two Business Units Reinsurance and Corporate Solutions, and all directly or indirectly held subsidiaries. The report covers the calendar year of 2021 and follows the 2020 edition. We plan to maintain our yearly disclosure rhythm and will next report on our sustainability performance in the first quarter of 2023.

The core chapters of our Sustainability Report and selected disclosures in our climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD) have received independent assurance from KPMG AG. The Independent Assurance Report is included on pages 119 – 122 of the pdf version of our Sustainability Report, and specifies which information and data points in the pdf of the Sustainability Report as well as the TCFD have received assurance.

Our Sustainability Report incorporates our 2021 Communication on Progress (CoP) for the UN Global Compact. You can view the full list of references to the Compact’s ten principles in the online version of the report.

Furthermore, we continue to report against the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). Our Public Disclosure of Progress is also available in the online version of the report.

In the online version of our Sustainability Report, you can also find two reference tables showing where content relevant to the Sustainability Reporting Standards as defined by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), as well as the Sustainability Accounting Standard for the insurance industry as defined by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), can be found.

In our Financial Report 2021 we provide detailed climate-related disclosures as recommended by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).