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Community fund
Since its launch in 2008, the Aviva
Community Fund (ACF) in Canada has
helped 91 community organisations and
contributed CAN$4.5 million to local
community projects. We have collaborated
across the Group to replicate this model.
The UK Broker Fund has invested
£300,000 since 2010 and in 2014 Aviva
Poland launched its fund, which attracted
over one million votes for community
projects to support young families. In 2015
we will launch more funds in the UK,
Europe & Asia.
Environment and climate change
We judge the importance of environmental
issues based on the impact on our
customers, our business and our
stakeholders. Climate change is society’s
most pressing environmental challenge
and the most directly relevant to our
business. We have a commercial interest in
making sure risks do not become
uninsurable and in understanding the
potential long-term impact on our
investments.
Extreme weather events pose a serious
risk to our business and customers, leading
to potential uctuations in claims and
challenges to how we price risk. We are
using our expertise as insurers, such as our
knowledge of historical weather events
and cutting-edge predictive modelling, to
map future scenarios, and reduce the risk
to our customers and our business.
We are also seeking to reduce our own
environmental impact, including improving
our energy efciency, investing in the
low-carbon economy and understanding
our indirect impact, such as through our
supply chain.
We are also building environmental
benets into our products and services, for
example in the way in which we settle
claims. In the UK, where possible, we now
aim to clean and deodorise items damaged
by re on site rather than removing them
and potentially replacing them. This means
fewer goods go to waste.
Controlling our impact
We publish annual Group performance
data for our CO2e emissions, waste and
water consumption. Our carbon footprint
boundaries identify the scope of the data
we monitor and the emissions we offset.
We report on all of the Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) emission sources on a carbon
dioxide emissions equivalents basis (CO2e)
as required under the Companies Act
2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’
Reports) 2013 Regulations.
Our reporting follows the GHG Protocol
Corporate Accounting and Reporting
Standard, and emission factors from the
UK Government’s GHG Conversion Factors
for Company Reporting 2014.
In line with this we report emissions
which are within our organisational
boundary. We therefore do not have
responsibility for any emission sources that
are not included in our business operations.
Case study
Street to School
Aviva’s ve-year global Street to School
programme came to an end in December
2014. It has exceeded its goals. Having set
out to help only 500,000 children, the
programme helped over one million
children globally. We are proud to be the
leading corporate body supporting the
campaign for street children to be
recognised in the UN Convention on
theRights of the Child. This has helped
putstreet children back on the UN
policyagenda.
We are proud of what Street to School
has achieved together with our partners,
people and customers. Over the last ve
years our employees have volunteered over
95,000 hours of their time for Street to
School, and raised more than £1.7 million.
Although the global partnership
programme has come to an end, Aviva will
continue to advocate on behalf of street
children through our work with the
Consortium for Street Children and the UN.
Our longstanding work in parts of Asia will
also continue for another twoyears.
* Greenhouse gas leaks from air conditioning systems.
** Personal business mileage.
Controlling our impacts:
Aviva’s carbon footprint boundaries
Covering 100% employees
Reporting and offsetting
Scope 1 – Aviva controls directly
Greenhouse gases
emitted directly from
activities Aviva owns
or part-owns
Scope 2 – Aviva controls indirectly
Greenhouse gases
emitted indirectly
from consumption of
purchased electricity,
heat or steam
Scope 3 – Aviva influences
Greenhouse gases
emitted indirectly from
all other sources
Electricity
Grey fleet**
Rental cars
Rail travel
Water
Company
car fleet
Fugitive
emissions*
Gas
All air travel
Waste
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