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Aviva helps restore rare native British rainforests
Aviva announces £38 million of funding to restore Britain’s lost temperate rainforests in the UK.
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New guidance for investors to ensure climate financing supports gender equality
The Women in Finance Climate Action Group has developed a framework to help financial institutions support women in the net zero transition and limit the negative impact of climate change on women.
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Aviva enters growing offshore wind insurance market
Supporting the UK’s move to generate more renewable energy.
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Aviva achieves validation of its science-based emission targets
Aviva has received validation of its science-based targets following approval from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
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Aviva calls for financial sector to play a bigger and clearer role in preventing biodiversity loss
Aviva calls for clarity on the financial sector’s role in the goals and targets set by the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), due to be agreed at COP15 in Montreal.
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Electric car drivers fear running out of charge – but help is at hand from Aviva
Running out of charge and being left stranded at the roadside is the main concern of drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) and those thinking of buying or leasing one, new research from Aviva shows.
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New Aviva programme invests $3 million for EV chargers in under-served communities
Aviva Canada announced today a $3 million partnership with Earth Day Canada that will deliver Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations for public use in at least nine under-served communities across Canada.
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Aviva Canada supporting Canadians affected by food insecurity and advancing D&I initiatives
Ahead of Giving Tuesday on Nov 29, Aviva Canada is donating $435,000 to support those most affected by recent economic shifts and address diversity and inclusion.
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Double your donations and help tackle the cost of living crisis in your community
Aviva's Cost of Living Boost offers match fundraising for eligible causes – with £2 million to give away before Christmas
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Aviva wants UK to be the most climate-ready large economy in the world by 2030
Aviva today launches a campaign for the UK to be the most climate-ready large economy by 2030 as it releases its first Climate-Ready Index – a framework to measure how influential countries (G7*nations +Ireland) are progressing on climate mitigation, resilience and adaptation.
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Aviva Ireland provides €5 million funding to The Nature Trust
Aviva Ireland has announced that it has provided €5 million in funding to the Nature Trust, a not-for-profit company backed by Coillte and Forestry Partners, to help accelerate its native afforestation project.
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Aviva Perth office to go off-grid following turbine approval
Aviva’s Pitheavlis site in Perth has taken a significant step towards achieving Net Zero operations following approval to install a wind turbine that will provide renewable energy for the site.
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The Wildlife Trusts and Aviva to create British Rainforest Garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025.
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.

Aviva is now one of Nattergal’s key institutional investors, with Aviva's Group Sustainability Director Claudine Blamey joining the Board.
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.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust asks public to help buy Skiddaw Forest and create England’s highest nature reserve
Thanks to a partnership with Aviva, £5 million has been raised.

Packaged Living & Aviva Investors to fund 101 single-family housing development in Cambridge
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.

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

Packaged Living and Aviva Investors to fund delivery of 121 new homes in Ebbsfleet, Kent in partnership with Chartway
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 acquire two single family housing developments, growing UK platform to 1,500 homes
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 strike £60m single-family housing deal
Packaged Living and Aviva Investors forward-fund the creation of 174 new homes in Bordon, Hampshire.

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

Aviva partners with BITC to provide much-needed support for communities across 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 to benefit from The Wildlife Trusts’ Atlantic rainforest recovery programme
Devon Wildlife Trust begin creating Atlantic rainforest at a new nature reserve called Bowden Pillars thanks to a long-term partnership with Aviva.

First locations for The Wildlife Trusts’ Atlantic rainforest recovery programme announced
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.
Our features
Read more about how we're acting on climate change, taking social action and embedding sustainability into our business.
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Nature isn’t always a walk in the park
20 Nov 2024
From pond-dipping nets to British Sign Language trails, the Aviva Access to Nature Fund is helping make Norfolk’s outdoors everyone’s outdoors.
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"You can't teach someone to budget their way out of poverty."
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Finding a way forward through difficult times
10 Jan 2024
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Bringing rainforests back to the UK
22 Jun 2023
Somewhere between the White Cliffs of Dover and the Giant’s Causeway, some of the UK’s most beautiful natural wonders are growing. But they’re also shrinking.
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From zero to Aviva Zero: an innovation story
22 Feb 2023
Take a moment to think of an innovative company. What’s the first one that comes to mind?