SGS Attains A- Leadership Score in CDP 2023 Assessment, Demonstrating Environmental Excellence

SGS Attains A- Leadership Score in CDP 2023 Assessment, Demonstrating Environmental Excellence

(IN BRIEF) SGS has once again achieved an outstanding A- Leadership score in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 2023 assessment, positioning itself among the top 17% of companies in the specialized professional services sector. This recognition underscores SGS’s commitment to environmental stewardship, as evidenced by its disclosure of actions on climate change, deforestation, and water security, along with the implementation of best practices. Notably, SGS surpasses both the European regional average and the sector average, particularly excelling in areas such as emissions reduction, governance, risk management, and business strategy. Javier López Gómez, Global Head of Corporate Sustainability at SGS, emphasized the company’s dedication to sustainability and its ongoing efforts to further reduce emissions across all scopes.

(PRESS RELEASE) GENEVA, 19-Feb-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — SGS has once again secured an impressive A- Leadership score in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) 2023 assessment. This recognition is reserved for organizations that actively showcase environmental leadership by disclosing actions on climate change, deforestation, and water security, and implement current best practices.

With this score, SGS stands proudly among the top 17% of companies within the specialized professional services sector that have achieved Leadership status. This achievement significantly surpasses the European regional average of B and the specialized professional services sector average of C.

Among the categories assessed by CDP, we have achieved a Leadership score in scope 1 and 2 emissions, governance, risk management processes, targets, business strategy, financial planning and scenario analysis.

Javier López Gómez, Global Head of Corporate Sustainability at SGS, said: “Achieving this Leadership score reaffirms our identity as a fundamentally non-polluting company. We are already successfully addressing our scope 1 and 2 emissions, and now we’ll keep moving forward, working on a material improvement in our scope 3 emissions.”

About SGS

We are SGS – the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality and integrity. Our 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more interconnected world.

Media Contacts:

Investors Relation:
Ariel Bauer
Group Vice President, Investor Relations, Communications & Sustainability

Media Relation:
Magali Dauwalder
Global Head of Corporate Affairs

SOURCE: SGS