Company: AXS-PE
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001214816-25-000056
Chunk: 231

Company: AXIS CAPITAL HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 231
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 to losses driven by policy, legal, technological, and market changes to address climate risks and include changes in consumer behavior, shareholder preferences, and any additional regulatory and legislative requirements, such as carbon taxes. Through its fossil fuel policy, AXIS Capital has committed to fully phasing out thermal coal from its insurance and facultative reinsurance portfolios no later than 2030 in OECD countries and 2040 globally. Additionally, by the end of 2025, AXIS Capital has committed to phasing out any existing investments in companies in the thermal coal or oil sands industries that exceed its policy thresholds in its fossil fuel policy. If we are unable to achieve our objectives relating to 

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climate change or our current response to climate change is perceived to be ineffective or insufficient, or the way we respond is perceived negatively, our business and reputation may suffer. In addition, there remains a risk that our financial condition or operating performance may be impacted by changes in our business model arising from climate change transition and by the performance of strategies we put in place to manage this transition.

We are also subject to complex and changing laws, regulations and public policy debates relating to climate change and other environmental risks, including overlapping, yet distinct, climate change-related disclosure requirements in multiple jurisdictions. These are difficult to predict and quantify, may conflict with one another, and may impose additional costs on us, which in turn could have an adverse impact on our business. The introduction of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ("CSRD") together with the EU Taxonomy Regulation, are the central components of the sustainability reporting requirements underpinning the EU’s sustainable finance strategy. CSRD requires disclosures against the European Sustainability Reporting Standards ("ESRS") and EU Taxonomy. We are required to collect a substantial amount of data across the organization to enable our reporting against CSRD requirements and this is likely to incur additional costs.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate Regulations (issued March 6th 2024) have been paused, there is potential for additional disclosure requirements should these be implemented. There is also a risk that, should the SEC move forward with its additional climate disclosure requirements, that regulators in certain states may develop their own enhanced reporting requirements. Changes in regulations relating to climate change or our own leadership decisions implemented as a result of assessing the impact of climate change on our business may result in an increase in the cost of doing business or a decrease in premiums.

The effects of emerging claim and/or coverage issues on our business are uncertain.

As industry practices and legal, judicial, social, political,