Category: Real Assets
Insurer promised to have invested £10bn from default pension funds into low-carbon strategies Insurer promised to have invested £10bn from default pension funds into low-carbon strategies Insurer promised to have invested £10bn from default pension funds into low-carbon strategies
Mar 1st, 2021
Aviva plans for all its UK pension customers to put more than 20% of new savings into sustainable impact funds or Net Zero-aligned funds by the end of 2022 as part of its Net Zero pledge.
In the pledge, announced today, Aviva claims to be the first big global insurer to set a Net-Zero-by-2040 target, despite many of its peers laying out similar ambitions for 2050. As part of the plans, it will widen its carbon intensity disclosure to cover government bonds and directly-owned real estate from next year, and cut the carbon intensity of all its investments by 60% by 2030.
By the end of 2022, the UK-based insurer also promised to have invested £10bn from default pension funds into low-carbon strategies and will push for its 3.5 million UK customers to invest more than 20% of new savings sustainably.
It also outlined its new ‘climate engagement escalation programme’ with 30 key carbon emitters, which Aviva says it will divest from if they don…