Performance

Delivering against our goals

Achieving our mission, requires excellent systems, processes, and data to enable us to better understand our impacts, to monitor and measure our performance, and to refine and improve how we deliver against our goals.

This focus area aims to improve data and processes to enable improved performance against our goals, and it connects our ambition with our impacts at a global level.

To monitor, measure, and enhance progress against our commitments, we will refresh our approach to sustainability data and our supporting processes. Our detailed Sustainability Action Plan will be supported by these new data approaches and processes, ensuring we can more accurately track and share our progress, and adjust our actions where necessary. In addition to regular updates and action plans, we will report on our progress in our Annual Report and ensure that our reporting processes continue to align with global practices for sustainability reporting.

We have a strong track record as leaders in sustainability, as the first networks company in the world to set a science based target to cut our emissions. As we move into this next phase of our sustainability journey, we are committed to continuing to be leaders, both through strong delivery against our ambitions, and through alignment with global best practice.

Our Priorities

Improve data and processes

We will streamline our sustainability data platforms and introduce new processes and resources to drive sustainability action. This will include improvements to our sustainability reporting, as well as the processes we use to assess the sustainability impacts of our large capital projects.

World leading sustainability

Planetary boundaries are the processes vital to how Earth functions, and therefore vital to life on earth. They describe the limits of what the Earth can endure, including in relation to climate change, freshwater depletion, and impacts on biodiversity.

First developed in 2009, the science behind the idea of planetary boundaries has developed significantly, with data showing what a “planetary boundaries budget” could look like for different geographies, and for individual businesses. We will partner with experts to quantify a fair budget for SSEN Transmission, and to assess our performance against this budget, and ultimately our impacts on planetary boundaries.