Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) has become increasingly vital in recent years as stakeholders, investors, customers, and regulatory bodies place larger emphasis on sustainability and corporate responsibility. Due-diligent and transparent ESG reporting is critical to Drax’s purpose to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future, as well as ensuring stakeholder confidence in the credibility of the entire energy transition.
Our Group-wide Sustainable Development Framework establishes that while delivering positive economic returns, the way we conduct business should provide positive outcomes for climate, nature, and people. We oversee this by underpinning our business with a robust ESG framework, in addition to being informed by laws, regulations and standards applicable to our business.
We report annually our progress against ESG criteria within our annual report and present updated ESG data and metrics in our ESG Performance Report. To ensure accuracy and transparency to our investors and stakeholders on our performance we undergo verification and external auditing.