World Economic Forum metrics

This index table summarises the relevant disclosures aligned to the Metrics for Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism by the World Economic Forum (WEF). ACWA Power does not yet report against every metric within this reporting framework, but we work continuously to enhance our data disclosure.

Category Metrics Location
PEOPLE
Dignity and equality
  • Percentage of employees per employee category, per age group, gender and other indicators of diversity (e.g., ethnicity)
Sustainability review / Employees
  • Number of discrimination and harassment incidents, status of the incidents and actions taken and the total amount of monetary losses as a result of legal proceedings associated with (1) law violations and (2) employment discrimination
There were no incidents of discrimination in 2024
Health and wellbeing
  • The number and rate of fatalities as a result of work‑related injury; high‑consequence work‑related injuries (excluding fatalities); recordable work‑related injuries, main types of work‑related injury; and the number of hours worked
Sustainability review / Health and safety
  • An explanation of how the organisation facilitates workers’ access to non‑occupational medical and healthcare services and the scope of access provided for employees and workers
Sustainability review / Health and safety
  • The number and rate of fatalities as a result of work‑related ill‑health; recordable work‑related ill‑health injuries, main types of work‑related injury; and the main types of work‑related ill‑health for all employees and workers
Sustainability review / Health and safety
Skills for the future
  • Average hours of training per person that the organisation’s employees have undertaken during the reporting period, by gender and employee category (total number of trainings provided to employees divided by the number of employees)
Sustainability review / Employees
  • Effectiveness of the training and development through increased revenue, productivity gains, employee engagement and/or internal hire rates
Sustainability review / Employees
PLANET
Air pollution
  • Nitrogen oxides (NOX), sulphur oxides (SOX), particulate matter and other significant air emissions
Sustainability review / Air quality
  • Fully implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate‑related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). If necessary, disclose a timeline of at most three years for full implementation

Sustainability review / Climate change

TCFD (Task Force on Climate‑Related Financial Disclosures) index

  • Define and report progress against time‑bound science‑based GHG emissions targets that are in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement
Sustainability review / Emissions
Fresh water availability
  • Report for operations where material, mega litres of water withdrawn, mega litres of water consumed and the percentage of each in regions with high or extremely high baseline water stress according to WRI Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas Tool
Sustainability review / Water management
  • The valued societal impact of freshwater consumption and withdrawal

ACWA Power is the largest private water desalination company in the world, producing freshwater for consumption. Some of the societal effects can be found in the sections:

Strategic review / Water desalination

Sustainability review / Water management

Solid waste
  • Report wherever material along the value chain, the valued societal impact of solid waste disposal, including plastics and other waste streams
Sustainability review / Waste management and circular economy
PROSPERITY
Community and social vitality
  • Community investment is included within the economic contribution metric (part of EVG&D)
Sustainability review / Local communities
  • Total tax paid and, if reported, additional tax remitted, by country for significant locations

Board of Directors' report / Statutory Amounts Paid and Payable

Financial statements / Note 21

Employment and wealth generation
  • Total number and rate of new employee hires during the reporting period, by age group, gender, other indicators of diversity and region
Sustainability review / Employees
  • Total number and rate of employee turnover during the reporting period, by age group, gender, other indicators of diversity and region
Sustainability review / Employees
  • Extent of development of significant infrastructure investments and services supported

History of ACWA Power / 2024 highlights ‑ Our portfolio

At a glance / What we do

Strategic review / Water desalination

Sustainability review / Emissions

Sustainability review / Water management

  • Examples of significant identified indirect economic impacts of the organisation, including positive and negative impacts

Sustainability review / Sustainability strategy

Sustainability review / Local communities

  • Significance of the indirect economic impacts in the context of external benchmarks and stakeholder priorities (e.g. national and international standards, protocols, policy agendas)

Sustainability review / Sustainability approach

Sustainability review / Sustainability strategy

Wealth creation and employment
  • Total capital expenditures (CapEx) – depreciation supported by narrative to describe the company’s investment strategy

Strategic review / Investment case

Performance review / Financial review

  • Share buy‑backs + dividend payments supported by narrative to describe the company’s strategy for returns of capital to shareholders

Performance review / Financial review

Board of Directors' report / Dividend policy

GOVERNANCE
Ethical behaviour
  • Discussion of initiatives and stakeholder engagement to improve the broader operating environment and culture, in order to combat corruption
Sustainability review / Corporate governance and compliance

A description of internal and external mechanisms for

  • Seeking advice about ethical and lawful behaviour and organizational integrity
  • Reporting concerns about unethical or lawful behaviour and organisational integrity
Sustainability review / Corporate governance and compliance
Governing purpose
  • The company’s stated purpose, as the expression of the means by which a business proposes solutions to economic, environmental, and social issues. Corporate purpose should create value for all stakeholders, including shareholders

At a glance / Who we are

At a glance / What we do

Strategic review / Business model

Strategic review / Strategy

Strategic review / Water desalination

Sustainability review / Sustainability strategy

  • How the company’s stated purpose is embedded in company strategies, policies, and goals

Strategic review / Strategy

Sustainability review / Sustainability strategy

Sustainability review / Corporate governance and compliance

Quality of governing body
  • Composition of the highest governance body and its committees by: competencies relating to economic, environmental, and social topics; executive or non‑executive; independence; tenure on the governance body; number of each individual’s other significant positions and commitments, and the nature of the commitments; gender; membership of under‑represented social groups; stakeholder representation

Sustainability review / Sustainability governance

Board of Directors' report / The Board of Directors' structure and responsibilities

  • How performance criteria in the remuneration policies relate to the highest governance body’s and senior executives’ objectives for economic, environmental and social topics, as connected to the company’s stated purpose, strategy, and long‑term value
Board of Directors' report / Remuneration
  • Remuneration policies for the highest governance body and senior executives
Board of Directors' report / Remuneration
Risk and opportunity oversight
  • Company risk factor and opportunity disclosures that clearly identify the principal material risks and opportunities facing the company specifically (as opposed to generic sector risks), the company appetite in respect of these risks, how these risks and opportunities have moved over time and the response to those changes. These opportunities and risks should integrate material economic, environmental, and social issues, including climate change and data stewardship

Risk management

Sustainability review / Climate change

  • How the highest governance body considers economic, environmental, and social issues when overseeing major capital allocation decisions, such as expenditures, acquisitions and divestures

Sustainability review / Sustainability strategy

Sustainability review / Sustainability governance

Stakeholder engagement
  • A list of the topics that are material to key stakeholders and the company, how the topics were identified, and how the stakeholders were engaged
Sustainability review / Stakeholder engagement