ESG Insights and Actionable Sustainability Strategies for Businesses
Download our new report on top ESG trends shaping businesses today. Plus, discover 65 essential ESG actions your energy provider should be taking to drive sustainability for your business.
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Top ESG Trends Shaping Businesses Today, and Insights for Action
The challenge with corporate sustainability strategy is no longer about whether or not to set Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals but, rather, how to achieve them.
In this report, you’ll find:
- The top areas in which businesses are focusing their sustainable impact strategies, informed by stakeholder needs and ambitions.
- How businesses are shifting from one-off approaches toward building comprehensive sustainability strategies to overcome top challenges — including limited time, resources, and expertise — to reach their goals.
- One impactful yet underutilized strategy to help your business achieve comprehensive sustainability goals faster and at scale.
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65 ESG and corporate social responsibility examples to guide conversations with your energy provider.
Businesses can and should expect more from their energy provider when it comes to delivering positive sustainability impact in the communities where they work. For energy consumers, only 40% are confident their energy provider will create future value for the community. A business’ energy provider can help you meet your consumer and stakeholder demands for increased sustainability action.
AES is proud to deliver impact in our communities beyond just providing renewable energy. Here are 65 ways that AES achieves holistic sustainability across all areas in environmental, social, and governance that you can use to guide conversations with your energy provider and demonstrate your commitment to creating long-term value for both your business and the community
1. Decarbonizing their own portfolio
We are strategically removing coal from our portfolio while increasing renewables. Renewables make up 53% of our generation portfolio, including solar, hydro, wind and energy storage.
2. Climate risk and resilience
AES became the first publicly-traded US utility to publish a Climate Scenario Report per TCFD guidelines and third-party scenarios for physical risk and transition risk from climate change in 2018. We have since updated our risk analysis, highlighting AES' strategy to lead sector decarbonization. Using IEA and IPCC scenarios, AES stress-tested our portfolio's resilience against climate risks, aiming to meet energy needs with innovative solutions.
3. More innovative and impactful clean energy solutions
Google and AES partnered together to develop a world-leading 24/7 carbon-free energy solution to supply Google’s data centers with time-matched carbon-free energy through a custom mix of solar, wind, hydropower and battery-based energy storage resources.
4. Helping businesses be more energy efficient
Through Clean Energy Navigator, AES’ energy management portal, customers can access personalized information to increase energy efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and reduce time spent analyzing their bill.
5. Promoting a circular economy
In partnership with SOLARCYLCE, we are sending damaged or retired solar panels to SOLARCYCLE’s advanced recycling facility in Odessa, Texas, where they will be responsibly recycled and repurposed. A similar initiative was launched in El Salvador in partnership with Geocycle to transform solar panel components into new raw materials.
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Get the full list of 65 examples