Sustainability governance
Our governance framework ensures that our sustainability strategy is fully integrated across all areas of the business.
A robust governance framework embeds our sustainability strategy across all areas of the business, ensuring accountability and supporting its long-term success
It provides clear oversight, defined responsibilities and accountability for the delivery of our commitments. It also helps us identify, monitor and mitigate ESG-related risks across our operations.
Sustainability governance structure
- See more about the Board of directors and committees in our Annual Report and Accounts 2026
The Board of directors
The Board oversees sustainability strategy implementation and progress against commitments. It drives accountability through sustainability metrics, including non-financial remuneration measures. Receiving quarterly updates, it oversees climate-related risks and opportunities and reviews or approves actions.
Audit and Risk Committee
Through the ARC, the Board oversees the Group risk management framework, approves risk appetite and reviews principal, emerging and ESG-related risks. Risk governance is embedded across Group, OpCo and functional levels, ensuring ownership of risks and their interaction.
Sustainability Committee
The Committee reviews, challenges and oversees approval and delivery of the sustainability strategy, including targets, stakeholder value and progress against commitments. With the Remuneration and Nomination Committees, it supervises culture, diversity, inclusion and employee engagement, and monitors community, environmental and safety performance. Chaired by the CEO, with the CFO as a member and ExCo attendees, it meets quarterly.
Executive Committee
ExCo supports the CEO in delivering strategy, allocating resources and managing operations. It monitors implementation of sustainability programmes across 14 OpCos and executes Group strategy through workstreams and targets.
Head of sustainability
Reporting to the CEO, the head of sustainability works with ExCo to embed the sustainability strategy, coordinate workstreams, support data and analysis, monitor progress and deliver sustainability reporting.
ESG policy governance framework
Our ESG policies provide the framework for managing sustainability risks and opportunities and embedding responsible practices. Developed by functions, working with legal and compliance, they align to regulation and recognised standards. Oversight sits with the Sustainability Committee and the Board. All policies are regularly reviewed and supported by internal controls and regular management reporting.