Orsted
ESRS disclosure: ESRS E4 \ DR E4-1 \ Paragraph AR 1 b
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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 description of whether and how your company's biodiversity and ecosystems-related policies are aligned with the matters specified in ESRS E4 AR 4.
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Question Id: E4-2_01
In 2024, we updated our 'Biodiversity policy', which applies to all sites owned and operated by Ørsted, including sites in or near biodiversity-sensitive areas. The policy addresses the direct impacts from our operations on biodiversity, ecosystem protection, and sustainable ocean practices. The scope of the policy covers all of Ørsted’s renewable energy assets, both offshore and onshore, and includes our initial steps towards addressing biodiversity in our value chain and the associated dependencies. More specifically, we engage with some of our tier 1 suppliers on their progress on working with biodiversity, similar to our approach with decarbonisation. Our biodiversity policy does not currently cover the impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems from e.g. raw material extraction in our upstream value chain. However, we are committed to working with our suppliers through our 'Supply chain sustainability programme' on mitigating their impacts on biodiversity, where we are currently engaging with our tier 1 suppliers.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 80%