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Aviva Climate-Ready Panel – Is the UK's climate leadership at risk? - Aviva plc

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Aviva Climate-Ready Panel - Is the UK’s climate leadership at risk? - Aviva plc

This week Aviva shared our second Climate Ready report

The report examined the climate readiness of the G7 nations and Ireland. Join us to hear discussions on the findings of the report, what they mean going forward and if this means that the UK's climate leadership position is at risk.

Register for our live panel event

Join us on 8 November at 1530hrs (GMT).

You can hear expert views and ask questions.

Our sustainability news

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... even though people aged 18-24 feel more pressure to act.
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Aviva and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) today announce a new research project on the role UK saltmarsh habitats can play in fighting climate change and removing carbon emissions from the atmosphere.
- Aviva helps restore rare native British rainforests
Aviva announces £38 million of funding to restore Britain’s lost temperate rainforests in the UK.
- Aviva invests £50m into sustainability focused venture capital funds
Aviva today announces a commitment to invest £50m into venture capital funds focused on emerging technology which supports a more sustainable future.
- Aviva introduces electric vehicle scheme for UK colleagues
Aviva has introduced an Electric Vehicle (EV) Salary Sacrifice Scheme, giving UK colleagues the opportunity to drive a fully electric EV for a two or three year period.
- Climate change is too low on business leaders’ list of concerns
...that’s a risk for them and for the rest of us too.
- Aviva launches ESG Profiling tool on Adviser Platform
Aviva has today announced the launch of an ESG Profiling tool on its adviser platform.
- COP26 – women excluded in fight against climate change
Tomorrow at COP26 The Women in Finance Climate Action Group will share the conclusions of its report, on gender inequality in private climate finance.
- Aviva Master Trust adopts integrated ESG default strategy
The Aviva Master Trust Trustees are delighted to announce that they have adopted My Future Focus as the standard default investment strategy for the Aviva Master Trust.
- Aviva opens one of the UK’s largest solar and energy storage initiatives
Aviva, with support from the Scottish Government, has launched one of the UK’s largest combined solar carports and energy storage facilities.
- Aviva launches specialised insurance for renewable energy
Aviva has launched an integrated package of insurance designed specifically to support large companies in the complex market of renewable energy.
- Solar carport takes Norwich office off the grid
Insurer Aviva has demonstrated its commitment to tackling climate change by building a solar carport at one of its core sites in Norwich.

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State of Play

What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet. 

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