2024-04-24 23:52:37
The copper producing company reached position 47 in this classification that highlights the 100 leading national companies in environmental, social and governance responsibility.
Year after year, Merco’s ESG Ranking highlights the 100 leading national companies in environmental, social and governance responsibilitywhere in the 2023 edition, recently released, highlighting the progress obtained by Anglo American.
Specifically, the mining company advanced 37 placesgoing from position 84 in 2022 to number 47 this year, ranking as one of the companies with the greatest progress on the entire list.
In the same way, Anglo American positioned itself as the private mining company with the highest score in Merco’s ESG Ranking, also being second in the Mining category, only behind the state-owned company Codelco.
“We are very happy with this result. It is the result of the constant work we have been doing, in line with our purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives,” said Anglo American Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability, Juan Pablo Schaeffer.
He added that “today, as the world faces its greatest challenge, which is climate change, We have proposed to promote collaboration with different actorsthe creation of spaces of dialogue and listeninge drive innovations that have a positive impact for everyone.”
Merco’s ESG ranking
Merco (Corporate Reputation Business Monitor) is the reference corporate monitor in Latin America that has been evaluating the reputation of companies since 2000, based on a multistakeholder methodology made of six evaluations and more than twenty sources of information.
The latest report is based on 44,024 surveys carried out between April 2023 and March 2024including among those surveyed managers, financial analysts, representatives of NGOs, representatives of unions, consumer associations, academics, authorities and workers, among others.
At a general level, the list was headed by BCI, followed by Natura, Banco de Chile, Nestlé, Mercado Libre, Banco Santander, Colún, Sodimac, Metro de Santiago and ACHS.