SSE’s Biodiversity Report 2019 is being published in the middle of the global coronavirus crisis.
Most of the work to complete the report was undertaken before the coronavirus outbreak in the UK and Ireland. SSE is committed to playing its full part in supporting the response to coronavirus, without losing sight of the fact that the climate and natural environment emergencies remain, and must be dealt with to safeguard well-being for the long term.
The purpose of the report is to disclose the most significant developments, from the SSE Group, in relation to biodiversity and the natural environment. The significance of this report, amongst the suite of sustainability-related reports, is increasing as stakeholders are seeking evidence of SSE’s impact on the natural world and because the scale of the biodiversity loss emergency globally is ever-more apparent. It is now well understood that the emergency of biodiversity loss is as important as, and intrinsically interwoven with, the climate emergency.
SSE’s Group Environment Strategy outlines the actions being implemented to manage the business impact on the natural environment and biodiversity from its operations. The strategy sets goals, linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, to:
- tackle climate change;
- be responsible in our use of resources; and
- protect and enhance the natural environment in the places we operate.
SSE will continue to provide updates on the implementation of its Group Environment Strategy and further information on the climate action and resource use in its Sustainability Report.