Sustainability Plan

Enel Group’s strategic priorities for sustainability are included in the long-term 2010-2019 Business Plan, which lays out the Company’s path of economic growth within a strategic framework of governance implementation, climate change mitigation and environmental protection, social development and transparent relations with stakeholders.

Based on the “Guidelines”, the Divisions draw up sustainability performance indicators, which are consolidated within the Parent Company and included in the Business Plan. In order to achieve ever-growing transparency and to obtain complete information, Enel monitors about 270 synthetic indicators (almost 900 when considering all the details), which are accounted for within this Report.

The guidelines of the Sustainability Plan are based on the Business Plan:

• Maintaining and confirming its leading position in markets where Enel is already present;
• Organic strengthening in the field of renewable energy;
• Consolidation, integration and operating excellence
• Pursuing its own strategy in the field of innovative research, thanks to significant investment in research and development

The Sustainability Plan was drawn up by applying the three principles of the AA1000APS (Accountability Principles Standard) issued in 2008 by AccountAbility (http://www.accountability.org/),  an international research institute for sustainability issues:

• inclusiveness means facilitating stakeholder participation in the development and achievement of a responsible and strategic response to sustainability;
• materiality means determining the importance and significance of an issue for an organization and its stakeholders;
• responsiveness is an organization’s response to the legitimate expectations of its stakeholders regarding its performance.

Stakeholder involvement has been one of the basic elements of the Group’s Sustainability Plan. Indeed, Enel has since long enacted a number of instruments and initiatives apt to collect and analyse the requirements of stakeholders and all these needs have been integrated into the Group’s strategic policies in order to define  broad commitment contexts that are significant (“material”) for each interest group.

For each objective and the related lines of action presented in the Sustainability Plan, in 2010 Enel launched a series of projects and initiatives that are reported in the related sections of this Report.

last update 20/07/2011