Assurant Introduces New Sustainability Vision in 2024 Sustainability Report
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“We remain committed to further integrating sustainability considerations into our business, and our programs continue to gain momentum and create impact,” said
Assurant’s 2024 Sustainability Report details this new vision, reaffirms our commitment to our sustainability programs, and reports actions, impact, and progress since last year’s report in the following areas:
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- Continued to reinforce a talent strategy focused on employee engagement, investments in programs to support career development, including opportunities to build a more diverse pipeline, as well as competitive rewards, recognition and wellbeing.
- Launched Leading the Way, a program designed to grow skills, capabilities, and careers to impact engagement, performance, and results.
- Invested in Total Rewards & Wellbeing, including initiatives to advance physical, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing.
- Established two new employee resource groups: Pride@Assurant and Abilities@Assurant, reflecting our expanded DE&I focus to includes individuals with all abilities.
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Diverse Supplier spend increased by 15%, reaching
$115 million . This was achieved through collaboration with diverse and small business suppliers including identifying new opportunities within Assurant’sGlobal Automotive business.
A Circular Economy:
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Through mobile trade-in programs, Assurant returned more than
$3 billion to consumers in exchange for their used devices, diverting more than 4,200 metric tons of electronic waste from landfills; and avoiding approximately 1.16 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. - Launched Assurant CarbonIQ SM, a solution that tracks and measures the carbon footprint of a connected device throughout its lifecycle, providing crucial insights to measure progress toward circularity goals.
- Protected more than 60 million mobile devices and operated more than 60 mobile trade-in programs globally, repurposing 22 million devices as of year-end 2023.
- Operated a global network of Device Care Centers leveraging state-of-the-art technology, robotics, AI, and leading circularity practices to deliver on commitments to clients.
- Provide vehicle protection for 55 million automobiles, with currently around 50% on used vehicles, while expanding our protection for hybrid and electric vehicles.
A Stable Climate:
- Received a “B” rating for the CDP climate change questionnaire for the sixth consecutive year and for the first time, achieved a “B” CDP Supplier Engagement Rating.
- Reduced Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by more than 5% year-over-year delivering meaningful progress toward our target to reduce Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 40% by 2030, from a 2021 baseline.
- Expanded our sustainability supplier assessment program, engaging over 100 supply chain partners on sustainability matters.
To foster continued sustainability disclosure transparency, the report includes updated annual
The Assurant 2024 Sustainability Report and additional information about Assurant’s strategic sustainability initiatives are available online at www.assurant.com/our-story/sustainability.
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