Environmental Indicators and Targets
Indicators
It is important that, as part of any mechanism to manage environmental impacts there are systems in place for monitoring improvement and for supplying information to facilitate review. We have a number of such mechanisms in place to ensure that we can see what impacts our actions are having and to be able to look for improvements.
We collect the following information as part of our CSR reporting programme. These are monitored at each of the ports and reported centrally for quarterly review by ABP's CSR Commttee.
- CO2 emissions
- Electricity usage
- Water consumption
- Third party managed waste
- ABP generated waste
- Dredged material
- Designated conservation sites
We also collect information on:
- Environmental Incidents/Near Misses – very important for learning lessons which can be implemented as good practice.
- Good Environmental Actions – recording those actions not driven by our CSR targets or legislation, but of real value to report and encourage across all the business units.
Objectives & Targets
The environmental indicators are used to set the environmental objectives published annually in ABP's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. These objectives can be viewed in our CSR reports.
We set both broad environmental management targets as well as more detailed 'theme' specific targets. This is a reflection of the fact that there are environmental objectives that we need to achieve for the Company overall, as well as more focused, objectives specific to certain environmental issues, e.g. AIr Quality.