Dear Stakeholders,
The presentation of our Sustainability Report is an opportunity for me to reach out and take stock of the events of the previous year, describing – albeit in just a few lines – the commitment to sustainability adopted by every one of us at the ASTM Group as part of our daily work.
Sustainability has firmly taken root in our organisation both in Italy and abroad, representing a catalyst for growth, transformation and competitiveness.
This is the seventh edition of our Sustainability Report and we are continuing to add topics each year: from climate action to technological innovation, from diversity and inclusion to human rights, from environmental protection to corporate governance systems.
ASTM is a global player in the infrastructure sector with operations in Europe, Brazil and United States.
We engage with a diverse range of stakeholders from across the world on a daily basis: employees and collaborators, suppliers, institutions, clients, motorway users and local communities.
And we feel a responsibility to each one of them to approach our business soundly and robustly. We are increasingly aware of the need to grow our responsibility to the community, and the actions we take to promote sustainable and inclusive development must meet the expectations of our stakeholders.
The economic and cultural evolution of modern society requires businesses that operate on the market to act not only as economic operators, but as a social institution. It is a new dimension, one that requires businesses to shoulder responsibility and drives us towards new horizons and increasingly ambitious targets. In response, we are investing in research to identify new technological solutions to improve transport and mobility, to develop increasingly green and sustainable infrastructure, and to play an active role in the modernisation of the countries in which we operate.
The pages that follow describe our activities and performance in 2022, with a view to representing the Group’s commitment to an increasingly conscious and socially responsible approach to management.
In this regard, I’d like to highlight just some of the key elements that encapsulate our commitment.
In particular, we continued our internal communication campaign aimed at engaging all of our employees on the topic of sustainability; we signed the Disability Agenda with the aim of promoting greater awareness of the issue and implementing concrete initiatives to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities; when defining our emission reduction targets approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), we identified new initiatives to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions; and finally, in 2022 ASTM was confirmed as a global leader in the fight against climate change by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in recognition of our actions to reduce emissions and mitigate climate risks.
These are just some of our achievements this year which, I hope, offer a clear representation of our way of doing business.
We want to create value. For the company and its shareholders, for employees and their families, for suppliers, for communities, for the regions in which we operate. To this end, we are constantly regenerating our approach to business, promoting an internal culture in which our actions are inspired by respect for people and the environment.
This is our aim. And it is this aim that we wish to be measured by, both with regard to ourselves and to our Stakeholders.
Umberto Tosoni
Chief Executive Officer