Italgas among the excellences of Dow Jones Sustainability Index Europe and Dow Jones Sustainability Index World: first among Gas Utilities

Milan, 9 December 2023 – Italgas came first globally among Gas Utilities for the excellent performances achieved in the field of sustainability. This is the result made official by S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment 2023 that confirmed the Company’s inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index Europe and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World, for the third and fifth consecutive year respectively.

The two indexes, managed by S&P Global, include companies that excelled globally in their approach to sustainability. More in details, in the latest Assessment Italgas achieved a score of 89 points out of 100 (score date: 24 November 2023), above the other 42¹ companies in the gas utility sector. 

The result achieved confirms the goodness of the Group’s choice to integrate more and more the Strategic Plan with the Sustainability Value Creation Plan on a path that sees a continuously growing commitment of the Group to improving all aspects related to sustainability, from the flight to climate change, to value creation for the stakeholders and the local communities.

A commitment well represented in the Sustainability Value Creation Plan 2023-2029, “Builders of the future - The journey continues” and in the second TCFD Report “2022-2023 Driving innovation for energy transition” that will be made available to stakeholders on Italgas’ corporate website next 18^th of December.

The confirmation of inclusion in the DSJI Europe and World follows similar strong results achieved by Italgas in 2023, such as the inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index Series, the confirmation of the ESG Corporate Rating of A- Prime rating by ISS and of the AA rating by MSCI ESG Ratings, and the improvement of the ESG score by Moody’s ESG Solutions.

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¹Companies in the Gas Utilities Industry assessed by S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment so far in 2023