SDG (goal)

Our contribution

Swiss Life supports its employees in maintaining their employability and promotes their ongoing development. This includes continuous internal and external courses for employees of all ages, training for apprentices and trainees, and entry-level opportunities for university graduates.

In addition, Swiss Life uses its own foundations to support institutions that help people from a wide range of backgrounds educate and better themselves.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

4.3: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university

4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities and children in vulnerable situations

More on this in the “Training and development” and “Corporate Citizenship” sections.

In accordance with applicable national and international law and the conventions of the ILO, Swiss Life adopts fair and non-discriminatory employment procedures with the aim of ensuring and promoting equal opportunities.

Fair and equal compensation for all employees is ensured by the Compensation Policy, which is applicable throughout the Group. For a number of years, Swiss Life has had processes and instruments in place at all its divisions for closing the gender pay gap.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life

5.a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws

5.b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

More on this in the “Equal treatment and non-discriminatory working environment” section.

Swiss Life specifically uses some of its investments to support climate-friendly technologies, projects and initiatives. In this context, the company has contin­uously increased its investments in more sustainable bonds in recent years.

The Swiss Life Group also includes a leading investment manager for clean energy and infrastructure funds in Switzerland. These infrastructure portfolios are focused on thermal, water, solar and wind power.

Swiss Life supplies its own office locations with electricity from re­newable energy sources. In addition, it aims to continuously increase energy efficiency.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

7.1: By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services

7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix

More on this in the “Climate strategy”, “Climate-related measures” and “Sustainability as an Asset Manager” sections.

Swiss Life makes a major contribution to the economy and society, both as a provider of products and services and as an employer, taxpayer and investor. In addition, it cultivates a fair employee-employer relationship that is gov­erned by social partnerships and collective bargaining and works agreements.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encour­age the formalisation and growth of micro-, small and medium-sized enter­prises, including through access to financial services

8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all

More on this in the “Equal treatment and non-discriminatory working environment” and “Points of contact for concerns and needs” sections.

Swiss Life invests through its own funds in the renewal of infrastructure and the development of innovative real estate projects.

Furthermore, Swiss Life strengthens innovations along the entire value chain. The focus is on measures that create sustainable added value for customers and employees.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all

9.4: By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities

More on this in the “Infrastructure investments” section.

Swiss Life is one of Europe’s leading real estate investors and has one of the biggest private real estate portfolios in Switzerland. The majority of its properties are in urban areas. As a builder, property owner and asset manager, Swiss Life aims to use ecological and economic resources with maximum efficiency and to make an active contribution to sustainable urban development.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

11.3: By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanisation and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries

11.a: Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, peri-urban and rural areas by strengthening national and regional development planning

More on this in the “Real estate management” section.

Swiss Life makes a contribution to climate change mitigation by reducing CO₂ emissions and has set itself Group-wide targets for this purpose. In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in its own operations, Swiss Life systematically integrates environmental aspects into asset management and real estate management.

Swiss Life is pursuing the following SDG targets:

13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

More on this in the “Climate Change” section.