Acea’s strategic planning takes account of both its industrial dimension and sustainability aspects, facilitating “integrated thinking”.
Acea’s strategy is to combine sustainability and business into a single major objective: to encourage our Group’s responsible growth. For this purpose, our industrial vision must consider our stakeholders’ expectations, with a view to creating a shared value.
Our Group serves the people and the local communities. This role makes us aware of both our responsibility towards our stakeholders and the economic, social and environmental impacts that we generate.
Acea’s strategic planning takes account of both its industrial dimension and sustainability aspects, facilitating “integrated thinking”.
Over the years, we have synergistically defined and revised the Business Plan and the Sustainability Plan so as to enhance our capacity to create value not only for the business, but also for the local communities, society and the environment.
The Business Plan and Sustainability Plan project us towards more and more challenging goals, consolidating the integrated vision between business and sustainability that drives us to be a sustainable and competitive Group, which respects local communities and generates shared value.
In the new 2020-2024 Business Plan sustainability constitutes a structural factor behind the Group’s business and operational management decisions. We have provided for investments totalling 2.1 billion Euro related to specific sustainability targets, such as the protection and management of water resources, the contribution to the development of electric mobility and the fight against climate change. By way of this Plan, we intend to actively participate in the achievement of 6 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Sustainability Plan is the strategic tool whereby we express our undertaking to develop a more and more sustainable business in terms of action areas, macro objectives, targets and results. The Plan comprises two levels:
Acea successfully issues its first Green Bonds
To give an additional boast to sustainability, Acea has successfully issued its first Green Bonds. The issuance is in line with the financial strategy included in the Group’s 2020-2024 Business Plan: proceeds will be used to fund sustainability projects such as those involving water resource protection, electricity distribution network resilience, energy efficiency, electric mobility, circular economy, and increasing energy produced by renewable sources.
