Route2 Sustainability

Materiality Defined: Route2 defines materiality for both corporates and investors by reference to the current and future financial and non financial impact from exposure to a set of 40 fundamental sustainability themes. This understanding is applied throughout a company's value chain. ESG Integrated: Route2's output is designed to integrate into our client's core business process and systems whether that be risk and investment management, strategic and financial planning or stakeholder engagement and communications. Action Focused: Route2 aims to deliver actionable insight to the corporate or investor by providing objective analysis backed up by the business case for change. Rationale: Route2’s investment thesis is that sustainable businesses will increasingly outperform, driven by a number of internal and external pressures. Exposure to these pressures will be different according to geography and industry sector; therefore a deeper understanding of the business and its full value chain is necessary to manage the transition to sustainable operations, profitably. Route2’s answer to the ‘exposure challenge’ is: 1. Valuing current and forecasted economic impacts (costs & benefits) at the corporate, individual and society levels, throughout the value chain; and 2. Developing user-friendly analytical tools to integrate the impacts with business systems/processes