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2003 – Progress against our measures
In our 2003 report, we presented our progress against the previous year and reported on important steps forward. We had moved on considerably since 2000, progressing up the Business in the Environment ranking in which we are listed, scoring 78 per cent against 39 per cent in our first year. We also reported where we believed we had fallen short of our sustainability principles - and we will continue to do so to ensure we provide a transparent and balanced report. Perhaps the most important step forward during 2003 was the decision to introduce a more embedded system for measuring sustainability, building on the metrics we had been using. To achieve this, the managing directors of our businesses each drew up an individual programme for improving sustainability. AMEC plc set an overall framework for its programmes, based on the UN’s Agenda 21 guidelines, set at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and laid out global priorities for addressing major environmental, social and economic issues. This framework allowed us flexibility to select what it made sense to measure in each business and what metrics we would use: a construction business will need to have different sustainability measures than an environmental service or design business. Since then, some of our businesses have made real progress with their individual programmes. For instance, our UK construction services business has implemented a sustainable wood sourcing policy and our Vancouver office came top in a recent business survey after it implemented energy efficiency measures. Overall, however, we recognise that we have to do more to ensure the standard rises across the company. This is not always easy when businesses have other pressing concerns, like tough markets. We have explained below how we have tried to address this issue in this year’s programme and report. |
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2004 - Driving it through the business
Full details of this year’s sustainability performance can be found under 2004 Performance. We have made progress against last year in some areas, while in others we have introduced or still need to introduce more meaningful measures or simply need to do better. We led the construction sector in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes during 2004/5. This year’s report has also been shaped by an important piece of stakeholder research, which we conducted during 2004. You can read a brief summary of the main findings under Stakeholder research. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Linzie Forrester at linzie.forrester@amec.com. |
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