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  • Aviva backs initiative to monitor corporate progress on SDGs

    25 September 2018

    A coalition of public and private sector stakeholders, including UK insurer Aviva, have launched the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), with the aim of helping businesses do more to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Q&A with Aviva's Maurice Tulloch on Insurance and Climate Risk

    24 September 2018

    To coincide with our Insurance & Climate Risk Americas conference, Environmental Finance conducted a Q&A interview with keynote speaker Maurice Tulloch, CEO, international insurance, at Aviva.

  • Aviva backs calls for IOSCO to raise climate standards

    17 September 2018

    Aviva Investors has added its voice to calls for the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to do more to tackle climate risk when it meets this week.

  • People Moves: Osmosis IM, La Française Forum Securities and Green Climate Fund

    14 September 2018

    London-based Osmosis Investment Management, a $1.5 billion sustainable asset management business, has appointed Mike Even to its board of directors.

  • UK, Chinese finance groups reveal plans to boost environmental disclosures

    12 September 2018

    Details have been released of three-year action plans to improve disclosure of environmental information by a group of Chinese and UK financial institutions.

  • EU benchmark proposals should be abandoned, says think tank

    24 August 2018

    The European Commission’s proposed reforms to benchmark indexes are “too far from contributing to [their] objectives to be amended” and should be abandoned, according to 2° Investing Initiative.

  • Investors call for tougher sustainability standards for palm oil

    16 August 2018

    Global investors managing about $6.7 trillion have called on the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to adopt a more robust and effective standard for production of the widely-used vegetable oil.

  • 90% of Green Finance Summit participants vote for mandatory TCFD

    19 July 2018

    There was 90% support for making the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) mandatory within five years, according to a poll of the audience at the Green Finance Summit in London.

  • Aviva Investors finances €1.5bn windfarm

    18 July 2018

    Aviva Investors has joined a syndicate of 13 international lenders to participate in the €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) financing of the German 396 MW Merkur offshore windfarm.

  • Rick Stathers joins Aviva Investors' growing ESG team

    12 July 2018

    Rick Stathers has been appointed as senior ESG analyst, and Sora Utzinger as ESG analyst by Aviva Investors. Both were previously at CDP.