Sembcorp’s reporting approach has evolved to focus on our material issues. A snapshot of Sembcorp’s quantitative sustainability performance data is presented here. Our management approach to our material issues is discussed separately under each focus area.
Sembcorp is an international company with operations across 16 countries in six continents. Our three key businesses comprise Utilities, Marine and Urban Development. As our Marine business is separately listed in Singapore and reports its activities separately, it is excluded from this report. In 2012, we have expanded our scope of reporting to include subsidiaries in South Africa, the Caribbean, Panama and Chile.
For Health, Safety and Environmental information, we provide performance data for our Utilities businesses for which Sembcorp has majority ownership as at December 31, 2012. This excludes our energy and water operations in Oman which were not fully operational before May 2012 as well as our operations in India. In India, data is excluded as our power facility is currently under construction while our medical waste incineration subsidiary is still in the process of developing data management systems. For Human Resource information, performance data covers all Sembcorp subsidiaries, excluding our energy and water operations in Oman and India. All data pertains to January 1 to December 31, 2012. Where data is unavailable or has been excluded, this has been clearly stated.
Due to our expanded scope from 2010 through to 2012, we report trend data based on data that is available for all three years. This is referred to in this report as “common scope”. Common scope includes Utilities businesses for which Sembcorp has had majority control from 2010 to 2012 in Singapore, China, the UAE and UK. This excludes the operations of Sembcorp Utilities (Netherlands), formerly known as Cascal, which were acquired in 2010. This scope provides at least 70% coverage of the parameters disclosed. Our additional scope refers to data from the operations of Sembcorp Utilities (Netherlands). Trend data is reflected in the Sustainability Performance Snapshot and in performance data charts under individual focus area.
Sembcorp adopts Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 3.1 guidelines. Our GRI Content Index is available here. Our report is checked against GRI 3.1 framework for Application Level B. We aim to work towards external assurance of the report.
All data measurements are in line with GRI 3.1 recommendations for our chosen indicators. All business units obtain greenhouse gas conversion from Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol), except for our operation in Teesside, UK, which uses Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) emission factors.
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