Understanding, identifying and prioritising issues that could significantly impact our value creation abilities is a key step in our strategy planning process. At JSW Steel, we undertook a formal materiality assessment exercise in FY 2018-19 and a benchmarked alignment in FY 2019-20.
A fresh materiality assessment was executed during FY 2020-21 to explore the issues considered to be most relevant by our management and stakeholders, which were then factored into our strategic priorities.
01 Fair business practices and regulatory compliance
02 Market presence and customer focus
03 Vendor management and development
04 Contribution to local economy
05 Diversified product portfolio
06 Data privacy and security
07 Corporate governance, transparency and disclosures
08 Investment in clean technology and environmentally friendly products
09 Digitalisation and automation
10 Business ethics
11 Human rights
12 Water resources
13 Waste
14 Biodiversity
15 Waste Water
16 Technology, product and process innovation
17 Cultural heritage
18 Social sustainability
19 Economic performance
20 New growth opportunities
21 Resilient business model
22 Air emission
23 Energy
24 Employee health, safety and well being
25 Resources
26 Sustainable mining
27 Supply chain sustainability
28 Climate change
29 Local considerations & indigenous people
The top right quadrant (high-high) of the matrix contains topics which are of high priority from both the business and stakeholder perspectives, and the following table contains the material topics categorised into six capitals (in alphabetical order). The outcome of the materiality assessment serves to confirm that the sustainability topics currently identified by JSW Steel continue to remain relevant and material for us from the point of view of stakeholder perceptions, impact on business objectives and risk, industry priorities and the external sustainability reporting landscape. The topics that have emerged as material are also reflective of the critical ways in which we create value for the business and for stakeholders across varied forms of capitals.
We have been actively working across these areas to deliver lasting value. Approach, strategy, performance and outlook for each high priority topics is covered through the length of this report.
Material Topics Identified | Capital | Read more |
---|---|---|
Air emission | Read More | |
Biodiversity | Read More | |
Business ethics | Read More | |
Climate change | Read More | |
Corporate governance, transparency and disclosures | Read More | |
Cultural Heritage | Read More | |
Economic performance | Read More | |
Employee health, safety and well being | Read More | |
Energy | Read More | |
Human rights | Read More |
Material Topics Identified | Capital | Read more |
---|---|---|
Local Considerations & Indigenous People | Read More | |
Resources | Read More | |
Social Sustainability | Read More | |
Supply chain sustainability | Read More | |
Sustainable Mining | Read More | |
Technology, product and process innovation | Read More | |
Waste | Read More | |
Wastewater | Read More | |
Water resources | Read More |
Our materiality approach takes into account the double materiality principle, which considers how certain topics are important for the environmental and social aspects, which also have financial consequences with time. The below representation encapsulates such issues for JSW Steel.