UN SDGs
In conjunction with the development of our materiality assessment, we have reconfirmed our commitment to prioritising the pursuit of our four overarching sustainability principles, and illustrated their alignment with those UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their underlying targets that fit our business model, the businesses that we currently own, the sectors in which they operate, and their key stakeholders.
We have identified the specific UN SDGs and underlying targets where the Group makes the biggest direct contribution. In 2022, we have added a Group water withdrawal intensity reduction target to increase efficiency across all businesses as they seek to address water challenges such as scarcity and quality. We will continue to further align those targets with our businesses’ activities and our new sustainability reporting framework.
The integration of UN SDGs and their targets into our business model links our sustainability objectives with those of society and aligns our value creation strategy with our stakeholders.Below, we have summarised our relevant UN SDGs, their respective targets, and examples of how we and our businesses are contributing to them:
Alignment of our Sustainability principles with UN SDGs
Good Health & Wellbeing
Gender Equality
Clean Water and Sanitation
Affordable and Clean Energy
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Climate Action
Our Sustainability goal
Health and Safety
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Drive our businesses to follow best health and safety
practice across operations, respect employees’ human
rights and positively contribute to their communities
by implementing effective policies and procedures,
supported by local management accountability and a
culture of strong awareness, training and investment
Our Sustainability goal
Our people
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Promote diversity and inclusion at all levels
Our Sustainability goal
Environmental leadership
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Drive divisional management teams to improve their operational, resource and energy efficiency to minimise the impact of their businesses’ operations on the environment, including Greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, and water usage.
Our Sustainability goal
Environmental leadership
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Drive divisional management teams to improve their operational, resource and energy efficiency to minimise the impact of their businesses’ operations on the environment, including Greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, and water usage.
- Align with recognised frameworks such as SASB, the TCFD and CDP to increase transparency of actions as a core driver for change.
Our Sustainability goal
Our people
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Drive our businesses to follow best health and safety
practice across operations, respect employees’ human
rights and positively contribute to their communities
by implementing effective policies and procedures,
supported by local management accountability and a
culture of strong awareness, training and investment - Ensure the pension schemes that we inherit are
managed prudently and effectively for both employees
and retirees, and where relevant, seek to create betterfunded schemes with more prudent targets under
our stewardship - Promote diversity and inclusion at all levels
- Promote fair employment and skills development
- Ensure that our people have a voice and can inform
executive decisions
- Implement and enforce effective compliance policies
across our businesses, ensuring integrity, responsibility
and adherence to ethical principles - Encourage them to protect the ultimate wellbeing of
their products’ end-users by adhering to the highest
safety standards - Ensure our businesses respect labour and human rights
and request their suppliers to respect these principles - Protect information security and data privacy
- Carry out prudent and responsible financial and tax
planning and management - Maintain sensible and sustainable leverage to support
investment
Our Sustainability goal
Divisional Overview
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Invest in research and development (“R&D”) to support and harness product innovation and quality within our businesses, to help their customers deliver on their commercial and environmental goals and to help find effective solutions to assist them in combatting climate change.
- Drive divisional management teams to improve their operational, resource and energy efficiency to minimise the impact of their businesses’ operations on the environment, including Greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, and water usage.Â
- Align with recognised frameworks such as SASB, the TCFD and CDP to increase transparency of actions as a core driver for change.
Our Sustainability goal
Environmental leadership
Our Key Sustainability objectives
- Drive divisional management teams to improve their operational, resource and energy efficiency to minimise the impact of their businesses’ operations on the environment, including Greenhouse gas emissions, waste disposal, and water usage.
- Invest in research and development (“R&D”) to support and harness product innovation and quality within our businesses, to help their customers deliver on their commercial and environmental goals and to help find effective solutions to assist them in combatting climate change.