The Group has earned the highest score attainable by the international organisation Carbon Disclosure Project from amongst the companies that joined this year.
This index includes the top 125 companies in the Iberian Peninsula that have the best corporate strategy to tackle climate change.
Grupo DIA has been presented with the Best Newcomer Award Spain 2015, granted by the international organisation Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), for having obtained the highest score from amongst all the companies that have joined the index this year, which specialises in measuring the strategy and actions of large corporations in matters of sustainability and climate change.
Carbon Disclosure Project is an independent non-profit organisation that holds the world’s largest database of corporate information on climate change, containing over 800 socially responsible investors that collectively manage assets worth over 90,000 million euros worldwide.
CDP carries out an annual survey on the largest listed companies, in order to compile information on identified risks and opportunities in relation to climate change, as well as assessing the level of transparency of a company in environmental matters and its level of efficiency in managing the risks arising from the impacts of its business.