Sustainability is an intrinsic part of our purpose
Sustainability is core to accelerating our customers’ drive towards net zero emissions and to improving road safety.
Key facts
Greater than half
of road traffic deaths globally are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists
5-29 years
Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death globally for children and young adults aged 5-29 years
3% of GDP
Road traffic crashes cost most countries 3% of their gross domestic product
Key stats
1.19m
92%
20–50m
Our progress
- We have achieved ISO 14001 accreditation for our Environmental Management System, covering our UK and German operations
- We have Group-wide data collection for waste generation, to create a baseline year for targets
- Once again, we recorded no fatalities or reportable or lost time incidents in the year, maintaining our high safety standards
- All Anthony Best Dynamics Limited’s premises now use renewable energy sources to power their operations
- We maintained high levels of employee engagement with surveys and other initiatives such as an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a mid-year salary increase to staff in recognition of the cost of living crisis
- Continue to build on our medium-term plan of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030
- Determine our baseline emissions and enhance our Scope 3 emissions disclosure
- Enhance and further develop our corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes adopting a more global approach
- Continue to develop the programme of initiatives aimed at embedding ESG in the diversification strategy of ABD Solutions
- Develop and publish a Group Environmental Policy
- Further enhance ESG data and our disclosure to help us identify the right targets, so we can continue to measure, improve and report on our ESG performance
- Assess our climate-related risks to enable reporting in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures once these regulations become applicable to the Group
- Communicate our ESG priorities across the Group, building engagement with all our employees
In this section
Environment
We are committed to environmental sustainability both globally and in our local communities. It is our mission to empower our customers to accelerate the development of vehicles that are not only safer, but also more efficient with less of an impact on the environment. We are also continually looking for opportunities to improve.
Society
The Group places utmost importance on the safety, health and wellbeing of our employees. We also recognise that being a truly diverse and inclusive Group is crucial to our values and to our ability as a business to grow, innovate and attract and retain talent. More broadly we have an ambition to put community and corporate social responsibility at the heart of our business model.
Governance
To bring to life our commitment to good governance and compliance, we have set out below examples of how we apply our standards of good governance to our supplier relationships.