Sustainability news

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has created the ‘Aviva Investors Social Value Label’, a certification scheme which seeks to recognise – and apply a rating to – the quality of practice in the construction supply chain in delivering good employment, skills and training outcomes for people and communities near its real estate development projects.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has agreed to provide more than £37 million in green loan financing for the redevelopment of an office building in Central London, located in Fitzrovia. The investment has been made through its Multi Sector Private Debt Long Term Asset Fund (‘LTAF’).

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has completed an investment into the European Battery Energy Storage System (‘BESS’) market, through an  investment with Terra One Climate Solutions (‘Terra One’), a vertically-integrated battery storage developer and operator based in Germany, worth up to €150 million.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has provided £200 million of financing towards the design, build and maintenance of the Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (‘HARP’) in North West England.

Barnet Council has granted planning permission for a major new residential development at Bunns Lane, Mill Hill, delivering 130 Build to Rent homes, fifty percent of which will be affordable.

Aviva Capital Partners (ACP), Aviva’s in-house capital unit that invests in in urban regeneration, housing and infrastructure across the UK, and Norwich City Council (NCC) have agreed a landmark investment partnership for a £350m redevelopment just outside Norwich city centre.

Aviva Capital Partners and Moda Group have completed a landmark investment deal with NatWest, Homes England, and the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to unlock a 1,000-home rental community in Digbeth, Birmingham.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has completed the forward funding of 133 homes in Wixams, Bedfordshire, under its partnership with Packaged Living, a leading sustainable living specialist in the UK.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has completed an investment to finance the construction of two new campus developments at Cardiff and Vale College.

(London) – Aviva Investors, Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has completed the forward funding of 189 new single-family homes in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, as part of its partnership with Packaged Living (‘Packaged’), the UK’s leading sustainable living specialist.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), announces a £15 million investment with Oxford Science Enterprises (‘OSE’), an independent billion-pound investment company that finds, funds, and builds transformational science and technology companies – across Life Sciences, Health Tech and Deep Tech – from Oxford’s world-leading research.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc (‘Aviva’), announces it has made a £15 million investment with Cambridge Innovation Capital (‘CIC’), a leading venture capital firm which specialises in early-stage life sciences and deep tech companies in Cambridge.

(London) –Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has completed a €40 million investment into Connected Infrastructure Capital GmbH (‘CIC’), a German-based developer of renewable energies.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has completed an additional investment into Innovo Renewables (‘Innovo’), an Italian-based company which develops, constructs and manages renewable energy projects across Italy, the UK and Spain. 

(London) – Aviva Investors announces it has launched an innovative Carbon Removal Fund which will provide institutional investors – including corporates, pension funds, insurers and local government pension schemes – with access to carbon removal solutions which aim to deliver investment returns, whilst also supporting their long-term net zero ambitions.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has acquired a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) property in Glasgow for £23 million, as it continues to grow its strategic asset allocation to UK living.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, announces it has agreed to acquire and forward fund a fully amortising lease for the creation of a new student village at Staffordshire University.

(London) – Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva plc, and Packaged Living (‘Packaged’), the UK’s leading sustainable living specialist, announce they have partnered with Octopus Energy, the UK’s number one electricity supplier, to offer the Octopus ‘Zero Bills’ energy tariff at two of its UK build-to-rent developments.

Aviva Investors and Zenobē continue to expand the number of electric vehicles and charging equipment in its network.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust to restore precious lost habitat thanks to share of £38 million Aviva fund.

30-year deal to revitalise a vast area in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.

Visiting the Earlham area, the visit was led by Jason Storah, Chief Executive of Aviva's UK general insurance business.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust opening a new nature reserve, Park Gill, in the Yorkshire Dales thanks to a long-term partnership with Aviva.

New report shows the importance of saltmarshes and what these ecosystems do for our climate.

Isle of Man to benefit from Aviva fund for temperate rainforest recovery.

More than a garden: it will be a living classroom, and a window into The Wildlife Trusts and Aviva's 100-year temperate rainforest programme.

Going behind the scenes of our new garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show with award-winning garden designer Zoe Claymore.

The Wildlife Trusts and Aviva have been working together since 2023 on a mission to bring rainforests back to the British Isles. The British Rainforest Garden will tell the story of this precious habitat and the work underway to recover it.

Nature restoration company Nattergal has completed a £40m seed round, with Aviva joining as a key institutional investor through its corporate venture capital fund, Aviva Ventures. This investment aligns with Aviva’s commitment to restoring Nature and biodiversity as part of their sustainability goals.

Thanks to a partnership with Aviva, £5 million has been raised.

The new homes are built to be fully-electric, making use of air-source heat pump and will also feature electric vehicle charging for every home, photovoltaic panels and battery storage.

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales will begin restoring lost Atlantic rainforest in Pembrokeshire thanks to a long-term partnership with Aviva.

The funding marks the eighth investment made by Packaged Living and Aviva Investors since launching a single-family housing platform in November 2021, which aims to increase the supply of affordable and energy-efficient homes across the UK.

Packaged Living and Aviva Investors to fund development of 212 homes in Milton Keynes. It is the first investment into the UK residential and living sector made by Aviva Investors’ Long-Term Asset Fund, REALTAF.

Packaged Living and Aviva Investors forward-fund the creation of 174 new homes in Bordon, Hampshire.

Packaged Living and Aviva Investors are quietly building up one of the biggest single-family housing portfolios in the UK.

Business in the Community has announced Aviva as its Founding Place Partner to help expand its long-term national place strategy to support communities across the UK.

Devon Wildlife Trust begin creating Atlantic rainforest at a new nature reserve called Bowden Pillars thanks to a long-term partnership with Aviva.

The Isle of Man and North Wales are the first places where The Wildlife Trusts will begin restoring and expanding rainforests, following a donation of £38 million from Aviva.