Board Committees: Responsibilities and ESG Integration
Primary Role: Oversees risk management, internal controls, financial statements and reporting assurance.
ESG Focus: Reviews climate and ESG-related risks as part of the enterprise risk register. Oversees the robustness of ESG data controls, supported by independent third-party assurance. Monitors reputational, regulatory and operational ESG risks.
Primary Role: Provides oversight on major capital allocation decisions and investment planning.
ESG Focus: Co-owner of the Responsible Investment Policy, which includes:
Primary Role: Ensures the Board’s composition and skills are aligned with long-term strategic needs.
ESG Focus: Evaluates Board diversity, ESG fluency and succession readiness for sustainability-linked capabilities.
Primary Role: Aligns reward frameworks with strategic goals and shareholder expectations.
ESG Focus: Oversees integration of sustainability KPIs into performance reviews and long-term reward structures, including decarbonisation and ESG delivery metrics.
Primary Role: Guides long-term sustainability strategy and target-setting; reviews progress on decarbonisation, climate resilience and stakeholder trust.
ESG Focus: Oversees major sustainability-related policies such as the Responsible Investment Policy. Sets thematic priorities that cascade through the organisation.
From Oversight to Execution
Link’s executive decision-making body, responsible for ensuring alignment across the organisation’s key initiatives and driving business priorities forward.
Evaluates investment proposals with embedded ESG and climate risk assessments. Climate exposure, flood or heat stress, carbon intensity and resilience investments are reviewed before approvals. ESG is integrated into the financial, reputational and long-term viability lens.
Supports long-horizon risk reviews, including scenario analysis and location-specific exposure to physical or transition risks. While not focused exclusively on ESG, sustainability risks are a formal consideration in the committee’s scope.
Chaired jointly by the Managing Director of Projects and the Managing Director of Sustainability and Risk Governance, this cross-functional committee oversees:
It ensures that sustainability delivery is embedded in daily decision-making, not siloed in a specialist function.