Indicadores ambientais do desenvolvimento da indústria do aço: avaliação ESG – “Environmental, Social and Governance”

Abstract

The term ESG, Environment, Social and Governance, has gained considerable relevance nowadays and has become a constant component in the reports and speeches of the main companies and entities around the world. Multiple factors, such as climate change, shortage of resources and social inequalities, start to demand from organizations a more humane and sustainable thinking. The steel industry supplies the most important engineering and construction material in the world, while its production reaches a huge supply chain. In this context, it is important that this sector understands its environmental and social impacts and works towards achieving environmental responsibility, social responsibility and good corporate governance practices. The current scenario of the steel sector in the world is favorable to changes in favor of sustainable development, which opens the door for the steel industry in Brazil to react positively to this global movement. Recent activities in this sector in the country already demonstrate the concern of organizations in the search of a sustainable development focused on actions in the three domains of the ESG agenda. In this sense, this work has as main objective to raise main environmental, social and governance indicators to assess at what level the steel industry in Brazil is facing the ESG agenda and compare how They are working in this scenario. For that purpose, studies were carried out in the sustainability reports of this organizations in Brasil that provided data for a comparative and qualitative analysis Where it was possible to observe a favorable reaction to the ESG agenda of the companies.