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Enviros has reviewed the non-financial sections of the AMEC sustainability report 2004. Its work has been conducted through interviews and discussions with AMEC’s corporate sustainability team and through shadowing the internal assessment process in the UK and North America. Enviros was not involved in any part of the preparation of the report material - AMEC has responsibility for coordinating the production of the report. | |
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This commentary relates to the hard copy sustainability report.
This website includes information supporting the hard copy sustainability report. An associated seperate commentary from Enviros on this additional website material will be published as soon as it is available. |
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Opinion
In our opinion AMEC’s 2004 sustainability report has been restructured in response to key stakeholder requirements identified by the stakeholder engagement research undertaken earlier this year. We are of the opinion that the statements contained in the report are accurate, based on interviews and evidence provided by AMEC staff to support the statements. The report also clearly signposts the reader to the website for further information regarding AMEC’s performance. An Enviros commentary providing further comment on data collection and reporting practices will be published as part of this online report as soon as it is available. Six new employment metrics have been introduced in the AMEC sustainability report 2004. We view this as an improvement which gives better balance to the reporting metrics. The final chapter of the hard copy sustainability report sets out how AMEC intends to progress with its sustainability programme. We believe that AMEC is being realistic in its recognition of the difficulties in applying standard metrics as a sustainability measure across a diverse, international business. |
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Recommendations
We note that there is a greater emphasis in this year’s report on the sustainability services provided by AMEC to its clients. Care is needed to ensure that future sustainability reports remain balanced and that appropriate weight is placed on the way that AMEC carries out its business, both internally as well as its client services. It may be necessary to develop additional metrics specifically for client services in order to demonstrate sustainability performance in this area. As in previous reports, case studies have been used to demonstrate AMEC’s sustainability performance. Care is needed in selection and presentation of these case studies in order to demonstrate balance, and in particular how AMEC is able to respond to problems and improve its performance as well as to demonstrate successes. We believe it will be important in future reports for the coverage of the internal assessment process to extend to non-UK and non- American parts of the AMEC business. Future performance reporting may also be better served by being focussed on the business unit level with an overarching AMEC corporate report directing the reader to these reports. This should help support the business case for the sustainability programme at the business unit level, with AMEC corporate providing guidance and support. AMEC is committed to aligning sustainability with its Guiding Principles and we recognise the important steps that have already been made to drive the sustainability programme into the organisation. AMEC has commenced a process to empower the business units to produce sustainability objectives and targets relevant to their own businesses but aligned to the overall AMEC sustainability programme. We encourage AMEC to describe in future reports how its sustainability programme is helping to reshape the business and individual business unit performances. The AMEC Sustainability Programme Manager should have a key role to draw the separately managed sustainability strands together at both a corporate and business unit level. A particular challenge for AMEC, and its sustainability programme manager, will be to ensure the consistent and appropriate delivery of sustainability performance throughout all AMEC businesses.
Rachel Pickering and Steve Rintoul Enviros |
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