{"id":29692,"date":"2022-12-20T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=29692"},"modified":"2022-12-20T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T09:37:43","slug":"eph-receives-an-esg-risk-rating-of-21-3-confirming-its-position-in-the-medium-risk-category-17th-in-multi-utilities-sector","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/eph-receives-an-esg-risk-rating-of-21-3-confirming-its-position-in-the-medium-risk-category-17th-in-multi-utilities-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"EPH receives an ESG Risk Rating of&nbsp;21.3, confirming its&nbsp;position in&nbsp;the&nbsp;medium-risk category, 17th in&nbsp;Multi-utilities Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d) is proud to announce that as of&nbsp;December 2022 it has received an ESG Risk Rating of&nbsp;21.3 from Morningstar Sustainalytics, a&nbsp;leading provider of&nbsp;environmental, social and&nbsp;governance research, ratings and&nbsp;data assessing companies\u2019 resilience to environmental, social and&nbsp;governance risks. This result represents an improvement in&nbsp;the&nbsp;score from 22.0 received last year (the&nbsp;lower score, the&nbsp;better) and&nbsp;confirms EPH\u2019s position in&nbsp;the&nbsp;medium-risk category. EPH secured 17th position out of&nbsp;over 80 companies from the&nbsp;multi-utilities sector. The&nbsp;results reflect EPH\u2019s strong management of&nbsp;ESG risks and&nbsp;its&nbsp;implementation of&nbsp;suitable policies, programs, and&nbsp;initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the&nbsp;issued rating update, <strong>Pavel Horsk\u00fd, member of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Board of&nbsp;Directors of&nbsp;EPH<\/strong>, stated that <em>\u201cWe are very delighted about this result which we view as a&nbsp;sign that EPH is on the&nbsp;right track in&nbsp;its&nbsp;sustainability efforts. ESG will remain at the&nbsp;heart of&nbsp;our strategy and&nbsp;EPH will continue to drive the&nbsp;energy transition which is socially just and&nbsp;considers unique needs of&nbsp;regions where we operate. Our long-term plans are centered around replacement of&nbsp;remaining coal plants with zero or low-emission alternatives, ultimately enabling a&nbsp;smooth transition to a&nbsp;carbon-neutral energy system\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sustainalytics rating report is available here: <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/esg-ratings\/\">https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/esg-ratings\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Further information on our ESG efforts can be found in&nbsp;EPH sustainability reports: <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/sustainability-reports\/\">https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/sustainability-reports\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a92022 Morningstar Sustainalytics. All rights reserved. This publication contains information developed by Sustainalytics (www.sustainalytics.com). Such information and&nbsp;data are proprietary of&nbsp;Sustainalytics and\/or its&nbsp;third party suppliers (Third Party Data) and&nbsp;are provided for informational purposes only. They do not constitute an endorsement of&nbsp;any product or project, nor an investment advice and&nbsp;are not warranted to be complete, timely, accurate or suitable for a&nbsp;particular purpose. Their use is subject to conditions available at https:\/\/www.sustainalytics.com\/legal-disclaimers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energetick\u00fd a&nbsp;pr\u016fmyslov\u00fd holding, a.s. (\u201cEPH\u201d) is proud to announce that as of&nbsp;December 2022 it has received an ESG Risk Rating of&nbsp;21.3 from Morningstar Sustainalytics, a&nbsp;leading provider of&nbsp;environmental, social and&nbsp;governance research, ratings and&nbsp;data assessing companies\u2019 resilience to environmental, social and&nbsp;governance risks. This result represents an improvement in&nbsp;the&nbsp;score from 22.0 received last year (the&nbsp;lower score, the&nbsp;better) and&nbsp;confirms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[98],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/29692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=29692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}