The content of this document constitutes a Sustainability Policy report in itself. It provides stakeholders with detailed information on the policy’s support instruments to enforce compliance; the Sustainability Strategy, formulated in the Strategic Sustainability Plan; and specific sustainability and CR practices, which are mentioned in the corresponding sections.
COMMITTEE
The Sustainability Committee is chaired by the Sustainability Director and is composed of representatives from the business areas (Toll Roads, Airports, Construction, Energy Infrastructures and Mobility) and the corporate areas (Human Resources, General Secretariat, Occupational Health and Safety, Risks, Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategy and Investor Relations). On an annual basis, the Chairman of the Committee reports to the Board of Directors.
The Sustainability Committee is the link between the business areas and the corporation and Senior Management, reporting on the progress and results, and proposing actions to the Management Committee, as well as transmitting the approval of proposals and results to the rest of the company.
The main objective of this committee is to define the Strategic Sustainability Plan and ensure its monitoring. Its functions can be summarized as follows:
- Design, update and, if necessary, improve the Sustainability Strategy.
- Supervise and evaluate the company’s performance in the area of sustainability based on established indicators and action plans.
- Propose working groups on specific issues.
- Share best practices from each of the areas on sustainability issues.
- Provide information for sustainability reporting (both internal and external).
- Analyze and assess sustainability trends, new business risks and opportunities.
STRATEGIC PLAN
The Strategic Plan is the indispensable tool to ensure that CR and sustainability are effective in fulfilling its mission and contributes to business development, the generation of trust among its stakeholders and the fulfillment of the objectives in the medium and long term.
The Sustainability Committee has promoted the new Plan, Sustainability Strategy 2030, drawn up taking into account the main global macro-trends, the regulatory and normative environment (United Nations Agenda 2030, Climate Change and the European Green Deal), the main economic and financial frameworks (Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosures. TCFD), Taxonomy and the European Next Generation Plan), social challenges (new urban agenda, new mobility habits, post-COVID-19 effects such as teleworking and the rise of e-commerce), technological factors (energy transition and digitalization), environmental factors (climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss and public health), ESG investor requirements, major reporting frameworks (Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the TCFD, as well as CR trend reports from various prestigious institutions. In addition, the Plan has been certified by AENOR for its contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
It has specific areas of action and objectives for each year, aligned with the business strategy, the Horizon 24 plan, and covers Ferrovial’s value chain, from customers to suppliers. The initiatives are grouped around six global main trends that will end up irrevocably conditioning the business of any company and that Ferrovial intends to address through this plan, and are the following:
- Climate Change Strategy 2030, Decarbonization Plan.
- Water footprint.
- Natural capital.
- Circular economy.
- Sustainable mobility.
- Community investment and social impact.
- Innovation aligned with sustainability.
- Good governance and business ethics.
- Human resources.
- Health and safety.
- Alliances.
Every year, the degree of compliance with the proposed SDG contribution targets is monitored. The annual performance path is met for all targets, and for those that have not been achieved, appropriate remediation plans are established. The Governance and Ethics area, despite obtaining anti-corruption training percentages of over 80% of employees, had set a target of 100%. In order to achieve this target, the appropriate remediation courses have been deployed.
The total results of the degree of compliance for 2021 are shown in the following graph:
