Anonymous AIG staff survey

Thank you for taking the time to fill out this survey. Its purpose is to understand staff views regarding AIG’s contribution to global warming via investment in and underwriting of coal, oil and gas companies and projects, including the Adani Carmichael coal project in Queensland, Australia, and the impacts climate change is having and will have on the company.

It is anonymous and takes two minutes to complete.

This survey is organised by Market Forces, an independent environment group that advocates for finance and investment to be directed away from activities that harm the environment and towards activities that protect and enhance it.

1. Were you aware that AIG’s investment portfolio includes shares in coal, oil and gas companies?*

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No

2. Were you aware that AIG underwrites fossil fuel infrastructure, which could include things like coal mines, coal-fired power stations, oil rigs and gas pipelines?*

Yes
No

Munich Re and Swiss Re warned at the end of 2017 that climate change threatens the entire business model of the insurance industry, due to actuaries being unable to model future risk based on past risk. In 2018 Insurance Australia Group and the NZ Reserve Bank both warned that large swathes of the globe are becoming uninsurable due to climate change.

3. Do you believe that it is in the insurance industry’s and therefore AIG's best interest to limit climate change as much as possible?*

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No
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4. Do you agree that AIG should avoid investments in and underwriting of activities that expand the coal, oil and gas industries, which are the main drivers of climate change?*

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No
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5. Do you agree that AIG should join the 14 major insurers, including Liberty Mutual, in ruling out providing insurance (or in AIG's case, any further insurance) for the Adani Carmichael coal mine/rail/port project? This project could open up a massive new thermal coal basin to mining.*

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Other insurance companies, such as Axa, Allianz, Chubb, QBE and Suncorp (16 in total) have started responding to increasing global warming risk by divesting their coal company shares and phasing out their underwriting of thermal coal.

6. Would you like to see AIG re-allocate its fossil fuel investments?*

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7. Would you like to see AIG phase out its underwriting of fossil fuels?*

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No
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8. Would you like us to send a message to AIG on this matter via twitter? If so, leave your message below. (this will be shared anonymously via the Market Forces twitter account)

9. Any comments, questions or information you'd like to tell us?

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