Aviva corporate social responsibility report 2008

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Welcome to the Aviva 2008 CSR report.

Aviva's CSR programme encompasses our business ethics and values, our customers, our people and suppliers, our community relations and the environment.

This report outlines the progress we made and the challenges we faced in 2007, and our ambitions for 2008.

CEO's statement

Andrew Moss, Group chief executive

“I take a keen personal interest in the progress our initiatives are making around the group.”

Read statement from Andrew Moss

Chairman's statement

Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE, Chairman

“Aviva is the first insurer to be ‘carbon neutral’ globally.”

Read statement from
Lord Sharman of Redlynch OBE

Our strategy

Aviva group CSR team: Left to right, back row: Cathy Ching, Reena Dayal, Michelle Wolfe, Simi Shasanya, Joanne Goddard; front row: David Hope, Louella Eastman, John Ainley.

Acting responsibly will help us meet our global ambition.

More on CSR strategy and governance

External engagements

Two people talking

We work with other organisations to share expertise and ideas and to improve our CSR performance.

More about external engagements

Key performance indicators

Printed data file

For the first time we have published our CSR key performance indicators from the different areas of our business.

More about KPIs

External benchmarking

Europe satellite photo

A good test of how well we are integrating CSR throughout our business is through external benchmarking.

More about external benchmarking

Independent assurance statement

Aviva is committed to annual external assurance. It means an independent organisation has assessed what is in our printed summary CSR report.

This year’s external assurance of our CSR report is provided by Corporate Citizenship.

View full statement

Logo: Corporate Citizenship

Regional reports

Our regions have produced individual online CSR reports, detailing their progress and performance in each of our CSR elements.

World map

More about our regions