Severn Trent Water tops FTSE 100 table for environmental, social and ethical performance

Severn Trent has been ranked first among the FTSE 100 on environmental, social and ethical performance in an underproduced by publisher Tortoise.

The Tortoise Responsibility100 Index “uses measures that deliver on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with each company’s score calculated from publicly available data across more than 200 sources. Tortoise said the scores comprise 17 targets spanning topics such as poverty and inequality to climate change and biodiversity.

The index, according to Tortoise, “examines how much FTSE 100 companies are doing to ensure a safe, fair and sustainable world, ranking them on their ability to ‘walk the talk’ – or doing what they say they would.”

Severn Trent’s ranking follows its recent publication of its Caring for our Environment report, which details the company’s environmental ambitions and commitments, including plans to plant over one million trees, reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030 and produce an extra 95 million litres of water to tackle the threat of water scarcity, using low-carbon methods.