Introduction
Understanding the ESG picture on a company is a complex exercise. As a tentative first step on gathering data and understanding our own impact we have created a simple ESG scorecard for companies, including ourselves, around 15 datapoints. Five in each of E, S and G.
finnCap ESG Scorecard
Our simple ESG scorecard for companies is based around key datapoints that are quantitative, unambiguous, uncontroversial, easily obtained and – hopefully – meaningful. And we apply those data points to our own perfomance.
How we rank
Environmental |
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Energy consumption (MWh/£m) |
16.8 |
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions (tonnes/£m) |
11 |
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Water Consumption (m3/£m) |
24.5 |
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Waste Production (tonnes/£m) |
n/r |
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Environmental & Sustainability Policies |
Jan 2021 update |
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Social |
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Employee turnover (%) |
12% |
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Tax paid (as % of PBT) |
35% (3rd March 2020) |
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Discrimination policies (view our policy) |
Yes |
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Community policies (view our policy) |
Yes |
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Ethics Policies (view our policy) |
Yes |
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Governance |
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Female representation on the board |
28% |
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Independent board members |
28% |
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CEO cash compensation (vs UK median earnings) |
21.9x |
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CEO & Chairperson role split? |
Yes |
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Adheres to relevant Corporate Governance code? |
Yes |
Company Tracker by World Wide Generation (WWG)
To help improve and measure our social, economic and environmental impact mapped to the Sustainable Development Goals, finnCap uses the digital sustainability monitoring and measurement app, Company Tracker on the G17Eco platform provided by World Wide Generation (WWG) to assess our performance against key policies, standards and frameworks.
Below is a sample view of the WWG dashboard.
The future is about sustainable growth
Our ESG report, ESG Focus, which can be downloaded by registering for our research portal, we put the UK smaller companies market under the ESG microscope, giving useful insight into how institutional investors are thinking about these issues as well as providing a simple, practical approach to assessing companies with our finnCap Scorecard.
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