Sustainability Impact Framework
Creating value through purposeful action
Our Sustainability Impact Framework brings our definition of sustainability to life, linking all our different approaches of sustainability to our business strategy. Informed through engagement, it identifies the sustainability topics that matter most to us and our stakeholders, so we can focus our efforts in areas where we can deliver the highest impact: to our business, to the environment and to society.
Why link the framework to our business strategy?
Renewable energy is our core business. It’s local, cheap and decentralised, providing a secure and affordable source of power supply that supports energy independence and economic growth. By facilitating the long-term success of our business, we can have the highest impact - generating renewable energy over time and creating balanced, sustained and inclusive value.
Our commitments
We’ll continue to create balanced, sustained and inclusive value by upholding our commitments to the environment and society. Those commitments focus on the topics that matter to us and our stakeholders: Climate, Circularity and Nature from an environmental perspective, and Our Communities, Our People and Value Chain from a social perspective. Underpinning it all, is a strong foundation of internal governance and solid principles of sustainable procurement.
Creating balanced, sustained and inclusive value
By creating sustainable value for our stakeholders, we can meet their needs, deliver on our business strategy and support energy security. Our stakeholders are diverse, from the communities that host our energy sites and the shareholders that fund our work, to colleagues, suppliers, national grids and energy clients. Each has goals to achieve, and our renewable energy helps make them happen.
Minimising our impact on the environment
Environmental sustainability for us means achieving our company goals whilst minimising our impact on the environment. As part of this commitment, we strive to exist in harmony with the world around us, utilising natural wind and solar resources to create renewable energy whilst doing everything we can to reduce our operational impact.
Leaving society in a better place
Social sustainability to us means delivering on our business goals while ensuring our stakeholders can benefit from the value we generate through our activities. We nurture a listening and caring approach based on an early engagement to ensure everyone’s voice is taken into account, ultimately aiming to leave society in a better place.
Governance and sustainable procurement
We can’t deliver on our commitments without a strong foundation of internal governance and solid principles of sustainable procurement. Our sustainability governance framework supports sustainability leadership across our business, and our new Sustainable Procurement Procedure outlines how sustainability issues should be managed throughout our procurement process.
Secure and resilient energy: our impact on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
We recognise that our production of renewable energy does more than reducing carbon emissions. Our wind, solar and biomass plants provide a local source of energy, power local businesses, supporting economic growth and energy resilience.
By linking our Sustainability Impact Framework to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, we have a better understanding of how our actions can contribute towards peace and prosperity for people and the planet.