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Common initiative of myclimate, Euresa and CO2Solidaire

On the first day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), six European insurances (all members of the interest group Euresa) in cooperation with myclimate and CO2Solidaire launched a new climate solidarity platform. This platform gives the approximately 16 million policy holders the chance to get involved in climate protection. With this platform, the initiators intend to sensitise on the following points:

• better understanding of the problems of climate change;

• discovering ways to reduce their environmental footprint through advice and eco-friendly actions;
• calculation of the estimated greenhouse gas emissions produced by their car and home, two of the items at the heart of the insurance sector and among the highest contributors to global warming;
• information on the initiatives being taken by each of the six insurance companies to assess/reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions.

Subsequently, the policy holders have the possibility to offset their unavoidable emissions in carbon offset projects of CO2Solidaire (GERES) and myclimate. With this initiative, citizens, insurances and NGOs bundle their efforts to fight for one of the main challenges of the 21st century: climate protection.