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ESRS disclosure: ESRS E4 \ DR E4-1 \ Paragraph AR 1 d
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- Provide a detailed account of your company's operations and elucidate the measures being undertaken to address material impacts within your upstream and downstream value chain, as identified in your materiality assessment, in accordance with ESRS 2 IRO-1. This should be included as part of your disclosure on anticipated financial effects from material biodiversity and ecosystem-related risks and opportunities, and should align with your transition plan and consideration of biodiversity and ecosystems in your strategy and business model.
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Question Id: E4-1_09
Material IRO description:
- Natural resources exploitation and land-use and freshwater-use change from mining. Negative impact (upstream value chain).
- Ecotoxicity from mining. Negative impact (upstream value chain).
- Land-use and sea-use change from coal and gas extraction. Negative impact (upstream value chain).
How do we manage the IRO?
- We have completed a mapping to help us understand potential negative impacts on biodiversity that we may have in our value chain. We continue to explore ways to identify and mitigate impacts across our value chain, including our first attempt at mapping impacts from high impact commodities (HICs) in our upstream value chain.
- We have completed a mapping to help us understand potential negative impacts on biodiversity that we may have in our value chain. We continue to explore ways to identify and mitigate impacts across our value chain, including our first attempt at mapping impacts from high impact commodities (HICs) in our upstream value chain.
- We are working towards managing our biodiversity-related negative impacts in our value chain. In 2024, we closed our last coal-fired CHP plant, eliminating the impact from coal from 2025.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 65%
- Provide a detailed account of how your organization contributes to addressing biodiversity and ecosystem impact drivers. Include potential mitigation actions aligned with the mitigation hierarchy, and specify any main path-dependencies and locked-in assets and resources, such as plants or raw materials, that are associated with changes in biodiversity and ecosystems. This information should be part of your transition plan and consideration of biodiversity and ecosystems within your strategy and business model, as required under Disclosure Requirement E4-6 regarding anticipated financial effects from material biodiversity and ecosystem-related risks and opportunities.
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Question Id: E4-1_11
Our business model is to develop, construct, operate, and own renewable assets, and we are committed to doing this in an environmentally and socially sustainable way. However, we recognise that expanding our operations also implies a greater pressure on natural ecosystems. Therefore, protecting and restoring these ecosystems must be part of the solution, and we remain fully committed to effectively manage our impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. Biodiversity management is an integral part of our business model and decision-making processes throughout the full life cycle of our projects. This ranges from early-stage site selection and planning, over project design, construction, operations, and eventually to decommissioning.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 65%