First steps taken to determine sustainability themes

An important part of GRI is a thorough materiality analysis. In the process of this analysis, the company establishes its most relevant (sustainability) topics. What are the material topics that really matter and what are the related effects? In a materiality analysis, an organisation examines the agendas, opinions and priorities of internal and external stakeholders. This makes it clear which – sometimes as yet undiscovered – themes and problems will be important for business operations over the coming period, and which sustainability initiatives deserve (additional) attention.

Vebego management gave an initial indication of the topics on which we want to make our impact in 2021. During the 2021 Vebego Management Summit, two groups of twenty managers indicated which GRI themes they consider to be relevant to Vebego. Through ongoing and future analyses, we are going to supplement and refine this list with the insights of our other stakeholders: employees, customers and society. From 2023, our final themes will be connected to KPIs.