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  • Insurers' strategic responses to climate change

    11 April 2017

    The third and final part of this series of features about the insurance sector looks at group level responses to climate change. Peter Cripps reports

  • Aviva joins Climate Neutral Now

    10 April 2017

    Aviva has become the first insurance company to join the UN's Climate Neutral Now campaign, committing to maintain its zero-carbon operations status.

  • Aviva calls for global definition of fiduciary duty incorporating sustainability

    23 March 2017

    UK insurance giant Aviva has called on the UN, OECD and G20 to adopt universal rules on fiduciary responsibility that allow the investors to incorporate longer-term risks such as climate change.

  • PRI launches sustainable infrastructure workstream

    27 February 2017

    The UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has launched a sustainable infrastructure workstream.

  • France's sovereign green bond could reach €13bn this year

    25 January 2017

    The French Treasury has issued a mammoth €7 billion ($7.5 billion) green sovereign bond, which is almost twice the size of the previous largest green bond and could be increased to €13 billion later this year.

  • Protection gap for climate change risks grows to $100bn

    07 December 2016

    Climate change related risks have dramatically reduced insurers' ability to underwrite certain assets, a report has found.

  • Investing in a changing climate

    06 December 2016

    Insurers are increasingly factoring climate change into their investment decisions. But they are only at the start of a long learning process, finds Peter Cripps. This is the second part of a three-part series on how insurers are dealing with climate change

  • Aviva earmarks two coal companies for divestment

    04 November 2016

    Aviva has earmarked two coal companies for "potential divestment", and is considering ditching eight others that are not responding to its requests for engagement.

  • Insuring in a changing climate

    10 October 2016

    A year after the PRA's landmark report into the insurance sector and climate change, Environmental Finance looks at how the industry is responding.

  • Aviva agrees long-term finance facility for UK yieldco

    27 September 2016

    Aviva Investors has agreed to provide long-term financing for Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), a London-listed investment company focussing on large-scale industrial and agricultural solar assets.