At Wilson Sons, we are committed to incorporating sustainability into our business, making definitive the reduction of impacts and generation of opportunities, which are increasingly beneficial to society and the environment.
The sustainable growth with value generation in the long term is based on the Global Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations (UN). Therefore, in 2009, Wilson Sons made the public commitment to implement the ten Principles of the Global Compact in its business strategies, actively contributing to the advances related to the environment and sustainable development. To learn more about the Communication on Progress of Wilson Sons as a signatory to the Global Compact, visit www.pactoglobal.org.br.
Reaffirming its commitment to the agenda, the company has defined an action model that aims to generate and protect business value, connecting sustainability management to its strategic objectives, linked to the adoption of best practices of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). This corporate sustainability model was consolidated from the definition of social and environmental issues, priorities for the construction of strategic guidelines.
At Wilson Sons, the materiality matrix was built through the analysis of different sources interested in the social and environmental issues inherent to the company's sustainability and following the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Thus, the global market contexts were analyzed, as well as the ESG reference practices, in addition to trends and future themes for the maritime sector. Through interviews with the top and middle executive leadership of the company, investors, scholars of the logistics and transportation segment, suppliers and customers, the perceptions and concerns about the priority issues of sustainability for Wilson Sons were consolidated.
In 2019, we carried out the first update of our materiality matrix, initially defined in 2015. The selection of material topics, which started from the review of the internal and external contexts of Wilson Sons, marks the official reports of the company. In 2023, in addition to a new update of the materiality matrix, the review considers the principle of dual materiality.
Thus, the materiality matrix of the company (2019 version) determines the priority themes and social and environmental issues to reduce impacts and create business opportunities increasingly beneficial to society and the environment.
