Our purpose
As a Group it is our core purpose to accelerate our customers’ drive towards net zero emissions, and to improve road safety and the automation of vehicle applications.
ESG is an intrinsic part of our purpose
- Fundamentally aligned to ESG through our mission to deliver ongoing improvements in road safety, including the reduction of road-based injuries and fatalities
- Further opportunity to support our sustainability objectives by assisting in the deployment of electric vehicles
- ABD Solutions offers opportunity for retrofit and recycling, improvements in mining safety and agricultural efficiency
Greater than half
of road traffic deaths are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists Road traffic
Road traffic injuries
are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years
Road traffic crashes
cost most countries 3% of their gross domestic product
Key facts
1.35m
annual road deaths globally
93%
of road deaths occur in low and middle-income countries
20–50m
road-based injuries per year
- We have achieved ISO 14001 accreditation for our Environmental Management System, covering our UK and German operations
- We have Group-wide data collection for waste generation, to create a baseline year for targets
- Once again, we recorded no fatalities or reportable or lost time incidents in the year, maintaining our high safety standards
- All Anthony Best Dynamics Limited’s premises now use renewable energy sources to power their operations
- We maintained high levels of employee engagement with surveys and other initiatives such as an electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a mid-year salary increase to staff in recognition of the cost of living crisis
- Continue to build on our medium-term plan of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030
- Determine our baseline emissions and enhance our Scope 3 emissions disclosure
- Enhance and further develop our corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes adopting a more global approach
- Continue to develop the programme of initiatives aimed at embedding ESG in the diversification strategy of ABD Solutions
- Develop and publish a Group Environmental Policy
- Further enhance ESG data and our disclosure to help us identify the right targets, so we can continue to measure, improve and report on our ESG performance
- Assess our climate-related risks to enable reporting in line with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures once these regulations become applicable to the Group
- Communicate our ESG priorities across the Group, building engagement with all our employees