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About the report
ESG SAB Committee
Considering that Sustainability is key to strengthening the link with our stakeholders and to permanently implement practices, policies and programs, in 2021, ALEATICA SAB, subsidiary of ALEATICA SAU and parent company of the group, created the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) Committee, which seeks ALEATICA’s long-term commitment to add value for our investors, recognizing the need for performance to be consistent with our objectives and responsible actions in Environmental, Social and Governance matters.
This Committee is composed of a Chairman and three independent directors, who will meet twice a year starting in the second quarter of 2022, for which a Reporting Plan is developed to report on the progress and strategies on ESG issues.
The main objective of this ESG Committee is to establish an operating process to facilitate the achievement of the company’s ESG objectives and goals, as well as its pillars. The ALEATICA SAB ESG Committee is responsible for:
• Establishing, agreeing and reviewing the company’s ESG strategies, ensuring that they remain an integral part of the overall strategy, and also making sure that that social, environmental and economic activities are aligned.
• Promoting dialogue with the company’s various stakeholders to understand their expectations and learn about their knowledge of ESG issues.
• Ensuring that the company recognizes the impact of its activities, and how they affect its investors, customers, employees, suppliers and the community in general, and that such activities are carried out in a responsible manner, within its operations and its business growth and development plans.
• Reviewing social and environmental impacts, as well as potential ESG-related climate change and human rights risks to the business and making decisions that will shape the operation and communities.
• Keeping the Board up to date and fully informed of strategic issues and business changes that may affect the company and the market in which it operates.
• Developing and supporting the necessary activities to translate ESG policies into an effective plan for implementation and agreeing on a program of specific ESG activities supported by appropriate targets and key performance indicators.
In addition to this Committees, the Global Sustainability and Customer Service Division is strategically structured, with management and a Global Environmental and Social Sustainability Coordinator, supported by a Sustainability or Environmental representative in each Business Unit, who periodically report on the performance of the sustainability strategy to the Management of each country, region and globally.
The commitment of each and every one of ALEATICA’s Functional Divisions, as well as the Steering Committee and the Business Unit Divisions, is of vital importance for the execution of the strategies and the operational continuity of the projects. Hence, we believe it is essential to mention all the Divisions that participate in leadership and action to implement Sustainability transversely and permanently, as it is what drives us towards a more sustainable future.
Vanessa Silveyra
Global Director of Sustainability and Customer Service
Social and Environmental Sustainability is one of our five pillars, a fundamental one and a transversal axis in everything we do and how we operate. The ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) criteria are now shared by all our Functional Areas and Business Units.
Based on this mutual understanding, we have been able to advance towards a Climate Change Strategy, in terms of emissions reduction and energy efficiency, as well as in the assessment of the vulnerability of our concessions to the effects of climate change and the consequent risk prevention and mitigation plans.
Likewise, our Business Units have drawn up their own sustainability strategies, based on an internal and external social and environmental diagnosis, such as the Materiality Analysis or the identification of interested parties, as part of ISO 14001. We have an Annual Sustainability Training Program, which allows us to accompany the Business Units in the implementation of the Global Sustainability Strategy through the knowledge and experience of experts in different environmental and social issues.
We work together with the areas of Human Resources, Safety, Risk and Compliance, especially to address the issues of Diversity and Inclusion, Health and Wellness, Ethics, Transparency and Social and Environmental Compliance, as well as the correct identification of Environmental and Social Risks.
At ALEATICA there is a clear notion that Social and Environmental Sustainability and ESG issues are what allows us to generate investment and impact on the surroundings, on the environment and on people, employees, customers, communities, public and private institutions and civil society, and thus contribute to the development of the communities and countries in which we operate. For ALEATICA, if it is sustainable, it is development.
