Corporate Governance Strategy | ESG

Key targets

All managers to have ESG in their objectives from 2025

All employees and contractors will receive mandatory ESG training by 2024. The breakdown is managers by 2022; colleagues by 2023; and contractors by 2024

Highlights

While we have always been a responsible carrier and taken ethics and our impact on the environment seriously, the launch of our ESG strategy saw a major leap forward – not only in our focus on ESG initiatives, but also in how we operate and the ways in which we communicate this.

Following the appointment of two newly-created senior roles, Chief Transformation Officer and Head of ESG, we formally launched our bold ESG strategy in October 2021 in Birmingham. This firmly positioned ESG as a major lever in our company-wide transformation programme, which began in 2020 and is ongoing with the launch of Evri. we also appointed a Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, further cementing our position as thought leaders in this area.

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Completion of Evri’s ESG report

Publication of new environmental, social and corporate governance web content

Dedicated ESG Steering Committee to develop and implement the strategy

Published our first Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) report

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The ESG Steering Committee

The Steering Committee reports key KPIs including carbon and ESG risk monthly to the Exec committee and quarterly to the Board. This is so ESG is considered in key strategy and business decisions. ESG Risks are also submitted to the Risk and Compliance committee for consideration.

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Pay gap reporting

We’re committed to eliminating systemic barriers that prevent people from developing to their full potential. We began reporting gender pay gap in 2017 and we’re continuing to implement initiatives to further close the gap. Gender Pay Gap and Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting can be found in our ESG report and in the links at the bottom of this page.

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Code of conduct refresh

We recently published a revised code of conduct. The document includes updated sections on our environmental impact, human rights and modern slavery, and equality, diversity and inclusion. Following executive sign-off, it was rolled out to stakeholders including employees and all relevant suppliers who work with us – 80% of our suppliers have agreed to this commitment. Clear, concise and available to all, the refreshed code underlines Evri’s commitment to being more transparent about how we operate and doing the right thing for everybody involved with the business.

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Evri joins the Indirect Spend Alliance (ISA)

Evri has joined the Indirect Spend Alliance (ISA), a working group of cross-industry peers that aims to identify areas of shared risk in the operations of indirect spend/service suppliers; design a more standardised approach to addressing hotspots; and support procurement professionals to embed best-practice. ISA is working to produce a collaborative, structured, and scalable approach to identification, assessment, and issue remediation for environmental and social risks in indirect spend categories.