
GENFLOW BIOSCIENCES PLC
DIRECTORS’ REPORT
15
TCFD Pillar Recommended Disclosure Genflow Response
Risk Management
• Identifying and assessing
climate-related risks
• Managing climate-related
risks
• Integration into overall risk
management
Given the small scale of its current operations,
Genflow has the ability to embed climate-related
risk management systems into its overall internal
control systems from the start of its journey, thus
almost eliminating the occurrence of transition risk.
As operations scale up, the identification,
assessment and effective management of climate-
related risks and opportunities will be actively
discussed during Board and management
meetings.
Metrics and Targets
• Climate-related metrics
• Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope
3 emissions.
• Climate-related targets
As the Group’s operations scale up, it will continue
to monitor its energy use and its status as a low
energy user. The Group will seek to collect,
structure, and effectively disclose related
performance data for the material, climate-related
risks and opportunities identified where relevant.
The Board will also look to adopt the Sustainability
Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
recommended disclosures once it is operating on a
larger scale.
Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting
The Company used less than 40,000kWh of energy in the United Kingdom during 2024 and, therefore, does not report on
energy consumption and emissions under the Companies (Directors’ Report) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Energy and
Carbon Report) Regulations 2018.
Social
The Board is committed to creating a positive, inclusive and welcoming work environment for its employees, workers, job
applicants and academic and business partners. The Group ensures that people receive equal treatment, regardless of
gender, gender-identity, age, disability, religion, belief, political views, sexual orientation, marital status, nationality or race,
physical or mental health.
The Directors believe that diversity is fundamental to the Group and to the success of developing innovative therapeutic
treatments. The Board is committed to creating a diverse environment, where the rights and differences of everyone, directly
or indirectly operating within the Group, are valued.
Health and safety
The Company operates a comprehensive health and safety programme which will seek to ensure the wellbeing and security
of its employees once it begins to recruit. The Board will at all times work to ensure that the Group complies with the highest
standards of ethical and safety standards. In addition, the Group uses hazardous, or potentially hazardous, chemical and
biological materials during its research and development programmes. These materials are necessary for the core research
activities undertaken by the Group. The Group is committed to ensuring that hazardous chemicals and biological materials
are acquired, stored, transferred, modified, handled, and disposed of in a way that minimises any potential adverse effects to
human health and to the environment. Their use is based on both an understanding of the hazards they present and on the
corresponding controls aimed at managing the risk of exposure. The Group complies with the local and national guidelines in
all matters of health and safety.
For scientific and regulatory reasons, animal studies remain a crucial part of the Group’s work to deliver safe and effective
therapies, which benefit animal and patients’ health and the wellbeing of our society. At present it is not possible, either due
to lack of suitable alternatives, or because animal studies are required by regulatory authorities, for the Group to eliminate
the need for animal studies in its work. The Group recognises the ethical responsibility to treat all animals respectfully, while
striving to minimise their pain or distress, and to avoid it completely when possible. To this end, the Group strictly complies
with all applicable international and local legislation and regulatory guidelines and, furthermore, is committed to following the
high standards of internationally recognised practices on the humane treatment of animals. The Group upholds and embraces
the “3Rs” of animal research, namely:
• the replacement of animals when possible and/or acceptable;
• the reduction of the numbers of experiments and of animals required by each experiment; and
• the minimisation of pain and distress, by means of refinement of animal studies procedures.