(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Atlantia earned an “A-” rating from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an international organization that evaluates the ability of about 19,000 companies to activate virtuous strategies in terms of combating climate change and protecting natural resources. The rating of the holding company has therefore significantly improved, compared to the previous “B”, on a scale where “D-” represents the minimum score and “A” the maximum.
The recent upgrade is added to the CDP rating upgrade – the company recalls in a note inclusion of Atlantia in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2023, one of the largest global databases on corporate sustainability covering over 7,800 companies in 61 sectors and including only the top 9% of companies globally. The company is also a new entry in the ranking compiled by Morningstar Sustainalyticswho placed it in the Top Rated ESG Companies List 2023, analyzing over 15,000 companies in 41 sectors.
These are results that certify Atlantia’s commitment and track record in implementing strategies and initiatives that combine social and economic growth with the protection of environmental resources: already last October, the international rating agency Moody’s ESG, specializing in the evaluation of environmental, social and governance aspects, it had assigned the holding company the maximum level of rating, placing it in the 1% range of the best companies evaluated globally, out of a total of around 5,000 companies monitored.
Atlantia in 2022 was a pioneer for Italy also with respect to transparent planning of initiatives to combat climate change, submitting its decarbonization plan to the vote of the shareholders (so-called “Say on Climate”approved with 98% of the votes), which aims to zero direct CO2 emissions by 2040.
From 1 March, Atlantia will also join the World Economic Forum, starting a collaboration on the front of the forms of mobility of tomorrow. This is an initiative aimed at promoting the creation of mobility models that are able to cope with the sustained demographic growth to 2050 with safe, sustainable and inclusive mobility models. On this front too, Atlantia is at the forefront, having invested, for example, through its subsidiary Rome airports in the development of the first Italian vertiport, where the first pilot flight of an electric vertical take-off (eVTOL) aircraft has already been carried out, which is expected to enter into commercial service in 2024.