Ceylinco Life’s Green Club drives meaningful sustainability impact in first half of 2025

The Green Club of Ceylinco Life has made a powerful statement on environmental responsibility in the first half of 2025, mobilising customers, employees and their families to drive a series of impactful sustainability initiatives that are helping shape a greener, more conscious corporate culture. 

The Green Club is a volunteer-driven group at Sri Lanka’s biggest life insurance company, and comprises of like-minded employees across departments, who champion sustainability commitment both at the workplace and in their homes. 

Among the highlights of the first six months of the year was the Club’s Annual E-Waste Collection Drive, which saw employees bring electronic waste from their homes, resulting in the collection of 573 kilograms of e-waste for responsible disposal, the equivalent of saving 191 trees. Further reinforcing its commitment to environmental regeneration, the Club continued an ongoing reforestation project and confirmed that 5,000 trees had been planted as at 30^th June 2025. 

World Environment Day was commemorated through tree-planting activities led by employees across the country, while the Green Club also extended its sustainability efforts to the broader community. At the Ceylinco Life ‘Waidya Hamuwa’ free health camps, vegetable seed packs were distributed to more than 1,200 people in an effort to encourage home gardening and self-sufficient food cultivation. 

In parallel with the Green Club’s volunteer activities, Ceylinco Life continued to invest in enhancing the sustainability of its operations. A growing number of company-owned branches constructed with eco-friendly design principles have implemented water recycling, rainwater harvesting and solar energy systems. As a result of these efforts, the company recorded the recycling of 660,000 litres of water, the harvesting of 1,463,000 litres of rainwater, and the generation of 581,984 kilowatt-hours of solar energy in the first half of 2025. 

The company has also launched a ‘Sustainability Championship’ in to motivate staff to minimise the use of electricity, water and stationery, and will reward staff at the end of the year based on their performance. 

Ceylinco Life’s Green Club plays a vital role in shaping the company’s environmental agenda by creating awareness on eco-friendly practices and driving projects that generate measurable environmental impact. Since its inception, the Club has coordinated activities such as the Company’s Carbon Footprint calculation and audit, the annual e-waste drive, and beach clean-ups that have removed significant volumes of harmful waste from marine environments. 

Ceylinco Life said it also plans to begin the next phase of its reforestation project at the Rajawaka Forest Reserve in Balangoda, where the company has committed to the planting of 10,000 trees across 10 acres of degraded rainforest and the maintenance of the area for five years, in partnership with Rainforest Protectors of Sri Lanka. 

Committed to enterprise-wide sustainability, the company has to date constructed 30 purpose-designed Green branches on company-owned land, and two more are under construction in Nittambuwa and Ambalantota. All of these buildings are solar-powered, incorporate rainwater harvesting and wastewater recycling systems, are designed to optimise the use of natural light, and feature the latest energy-efficient lighting and air conditioning systems.

Voted the Peoples Life Insurance Service Provider of the Year for the 19^th consecutive year in 2025, Ceylinco Life was adjudged Sri Lanka’s Brand of the Year in 2022 and 2023 and was named one of the 10 Most Admired Companies in Sri Lanka in 2023 by the International Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka (ICCSL) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). The Ceylinco Life brand and was also ranked the ‘Most Valuable Insurance Brand in Sri Lanka’ across both life and general insurance categories in 2023 by Brand Finance.

Ceylinco Life has been the country’s leading life insurer for 21 of the 37 years it has been in existence and provides innovative life insurance solutions which offer protection while de-risking the goals and ambitions of the Company’s policyholders.