In this year’s report, we are focusing on Allianz’s commitment to long-term climate protection – both through our business activities as an insurer and investor and our corporate operations. Like in previous years, the report gives you an overview of a wide array of topics from how we manage ESG risks and opportunities in our business, offer sustainable solutions, protect our customers, develop our people and engage in the community.

What’s new in this report:

• We have improved the way we show data and trends, by introducing graphs and images throughout the report.
• A quick overview of our main targets and achievements is now available at the back of the report.
• We continued to develop our reporting based on the Global Reporting Initiative’s GRI Standards and the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).

If you have any questions or suggestions about our report, we look forward to hearing from you at corporate.responsibility@allianz.com.

Our sustainability reporting has come to fulfill a multitude of purposes and requirements – making it an important but challenging opportunity. The EU Directive on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups (2014/95/EU) has introduced new rules for the disclosure of non-financial information from the 2017 Fiscal Year onwards. In compliance with these legal requirements, we published relevant non-financial information within the Governance section of the Group Annual Report 2018.