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BEST SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATIONS
1 Enel ‘Enel does a phenomenal job on ESG. It is particularly focused on the renewables and showing how the firm is making the effort to become more sustainable. The IR team is clearly very well organized’ – Italy, sell side ‘Enel is good on the sustainability front and is ahead of the curve’ – Italy, sell side 2 Intesa Sanpaolo ‘Intesa is involved with sustainability rankings, in touch with a number of associations and has plans in place to help the community and the environment’ – Italy, sell side 3 ING Group ‘ING is the gold standard when it comes to sustainability. It’s the best in the sector for overall strategy and the credibility of its KPIs’ – UK, buy side 4 Iberdrola ‘Iberdrola is best in terms of being a pioneer in the sustainability field and publishing non-financial data’ – Spain, buy side
5 Nestlé ‘Regarding sustainability, Nestlé has made big efforts with a detailed plan to hit net-zero emissions. It is the leader in the sector for this’ – France, buy side ‘Nestlé always makes sustainability part of the quarterly calls. There is a dedicated slide for it that picks up the topic and provides hard facts’ – Switzerland, sell side 6 Novartis ‘Novartis does a lot in terms of sustainability and its governance is clearly improving’ – UK, sell side 7 Allianz ‘Comprehensive, relevant detail from Allianz on sustainability’ – UK, sell side
8 Novo Nordisk ‘We get excellent information from Novo Nordisk. I have been particularly impressed by its communications on sustainability’ – UK, buy side 9 Schneider Electric ‘The chief executive at Schneider Electric is engaged in ESG, and communicates well’ – France, buy side 10 EDP – Energias de Portugal ‘As investors are becoming more interested in sustainability issues, EDP is now very focused on the subject, producing an annual sustainability report’ – Portugal, sell side
