Sustainability

American Tower’s commitment to ethical and sustainable operations is integral to our business and culture. Our obligations to employees, customers, vendors, stockholders and the communities where we operate extend beyond providing neutral-host infrastructure; we have the opportunity to address pressing global environmental challenges and improve lives by building a more connected world. Built on three pillars—Environment, Social and Governance—our sustainability program is a vital component to achieving our business strategy.

Our Strategy

With support and oversight from the Board of Directors and Company leadership, the sustainability imperative is embedded in our culture throughout all levels and regions of the organization. Further demonstrating American Tower’s commitment to sustainability, the Company has set measurable targets across all three pillars and along with like-minded global organizations is a signatory to or supports sustainability initiatives, including the United Nations (UN) Global Compact, UN Sustainable Development Goals, UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and Science Based Targets initiative.

Our Three Pillars

Environment

Minimizing our environmental impact is an essential element of our value proposition to our stakeholders and our commitment to sustainability.

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Social

We believe in the importance of providing resources and support as well as expanding access to opportunities for both our employees and the communities where we operate.

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Governance

We’re committed to doing business according to the highest ethical standards and managing risk to ensure we remain a partner of choice for our customers and the communities where we operate.

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Sustainability Report

Our Sustainability Report highlights our commitment to positively impact our employees, customers, stockholders, suppliers and surrounding communities, as well as our focus on establishing, measuring and achieving quantitative and qualitative sustainability goals. 

Read Our 2022 Sustainability Report

Read Our 2021 Sustainability Report

 

 

Sustainability Ratings

Sustainability rating agencies typically assess a Company’s exposure to environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk, their capacity to manage and mitigate such risks as well as their sustainability-related performance. American Tower participates in many reputable, international rating agency evaluations to provide greater detail on our sustainability efforts as well as to meet stakeholder transparency expectations.

The CDP is a non-profit organization that runs a global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts.

American Tower earned a B for its 2022 CDP response.

Ecovadis is a sustainability rating services agency that measures a company's sustainability management system through its policies, actions and results.

American Tower received a bronze sustainability rating from EcoVadis in 2022.

GRESB is an independent organization providing validated ESG performance data and peer benchmarks for investors and managers to improve business intelligence, industry engagement and decision-making.

American Tower received a score of 89 for its 2023 GRESB response.

The ISS Environmental and Social QualityScores measures and identifies risk in environmental and social areas of concern through analysis of company disclosures. The ISS Governance QualityScore is a data-driven scoring and screening solution designed to enable quality reviews of corporate governance.

American Tower’s most recent ISS QualityScores were 1, 2 and 1 for Environment, Social and Governance, respectively, which indicate low exposure to ESG risk.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. The MSCI ESG ratings aim to measure a company’s management of financially relevant ESG risks and opportunities.

American Tower received a leader score of AA for its 2022 MSCI ESG rating.

Sustainaltyics is a leading independent ESG and corporate governance research ratings and analytics firm. Scores are designed to help investors identify and understand financially material ESG risks at the security and portfolio level.

American Tower’s most recent Sustainalyics score is 10.9, which indicates low exposure to ESG risk.

For more information on our data center sustainability efforts, please see the Data Center Sustainability section of our 2022 Sustainability Report and visit the CoreSite website.

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