Environmental Policy & Objectives

Prudential recognises that, through day – to – day business activities and the investments made on behalf of customers, we have an impact on the environment. We are committed to minimising that impact and preventing pollution and unnecessary damage to the environment from our operations.

Through our environmental programme, we are working to integrate environmental management into all our core business activities, financial products and services. This will cover medium and long term savings, life assurance, banking and investment management.

Prudential is a signatory of the UN Environment Programme for Financial Institutions on the Environment and Sustainable Development. As such we will endeavour to ensure our policies and business actions promote the consideration of the environment, sustainable development and compliance with all relevant environmental legislation and regulations.

 We will strive to:

• Continuously improve our environmental performance
• Use energy and water efficiently
• Reduce consumption of materials, through re-use rather than disposal wherever possible
• Promote recycling
• Develop policies and practices which raise awareness and encourage and enable our staff to make a contribution to achieving environmental improvement
• Encourage our suppliers to minimise the impact of their operations on the environment through our procurement polices and practices
• Take account of environmental considerations as part of our investment process
• Apply the principles of best environmental practice in the planning, development, refurbishment and decommissioning of our buildings
• Develop environmental considerations into Product Development and Stewardship

Prudential has developed environmental objectives and targets through which our efforts towards achieving environmental improvement can be measured and will continue to monitor and review our environmental performance and policies.

 We will report publicly on an annual basis, online and in limited abridged hard copy, to demonstrate developing progress in improving our environmental performance.