Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable world takes social and climate action.

We’re taking social action. We’re focused on strengthening financial resilience, investing in housing and infrastructure and improving employability prospects.

We’re taking climate action. We’re focused on decarbonising our business, insuring and investing in the energy transition, protecting and restoring nature, and supporting climate adaptation. We have an ambition to become a Net Zero company by 2040.

And we’re acting as a sustainable business.

We’re focusing on providing purposeful proposition choice, being an employer of choice, and protecting human rights while maintaining good governance.

We’re taking social action. We've donated around £11m to our partner - Citizens Advice - to help our communities with their financial resilience.

Since 2015 we’ve contributed over £20m to over 9,000 UK local change makers through Aviva’s UK community funding.

In 2026 we set new social action ambitions.

We aim to support 2,000 charities, social enterprises and community partners with increased capacity to serve the community from 2026 to 2030.

We also aim to help 100,000 people with improved financial resilience from 2026 to 2030.

We’ve spent over 300,000 hours on volunteering between 2020 to mid-2025 and have set the ambition to do 600,000 hours from 2026 to 2030.

And we’re proud to be Business in the Community’s first National Place Partner, sharing their ambition of supporting 50 Places across the UK by 2032, starting in York, Sheffield, Norwich, Bristol, Eastleigh and Perth.

We’ve invested over £13 billion in UK infrastructure since 2020 including: urban regeneration, social housing, renewable energy and electric vehicle charging networks.

We’re taking climate action. Making progress towards our 2040 Net Zero ambition. We have reduced the carbon emissions from our operations (Scope 1 and 2) by 56% since 2019. And used 100% electricity from renewable sources across all operations. Our suppliers are joining us on our journey – 73% of our suppliers (by spend) had set validated science-based targets by the end 2025. Since 2019 we have reduced the Scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity for a portion of our investments by 59%. By the end of 2025, Aviva had invested approximately £10.5 billion in green assets. We are helping to restore Britain’s lost temperate rainforests through a £38 million partnership with The Wildlife Trusts. We are reviving saltmarsh habitats through a £21 million partnership with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. We are supporting the creation of new woodlands and restoring peatlands through a £10 million partnership with the Woodland Trust.

We’re embedding sustainability into our business. Innovating to offer sustainable choices in our products, services and investments. And we’re taking action to support a just and fair energy transition so that the impacts of change don’t disproportionately impact vulnerable communities.

Doing more to build a supportive, diverse and inclusive organisation. As at end of 2025 92% of employees would recommend Aviva as a great place to work. 14% of senior leaders are from ethnically diverse communities, and just over 41% of senior management positions are held by women.

It takes social and climate action.

It takes everyone playing their part.

It takes Aviva.

Find out more in the Sustainability section of Aviva's 2025 Annual Report and Accounts at aviva.com/sustainability/reporting.