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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 account of the processes your organization employs to identify and assess material impacts, risks, dependencies, and opportunities related to biodiversity and ecosystems. Specifically, elucidate whether and how your organization has identified and assessed both actual and potential impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems at your own site locations, as well as within the upstream and downstream segments of your value chain. Include the assessment criteria applied in this evaluation.
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Question Id: E4.IRO-1_01
During the project development phase of all our offshore and onshore assets where we are responsible for development, we conduct early risk screenings and develop environmental impact assessments (EIAs) or equivalent plans to assess the potential impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems at the locations of potential new assets. This is then followed by the legally required impact assessment processes, providing data on the biodiversity and ecosystems present at the site location. Based on these findings, we can develop action plans to mitigate our impacts and outline restoration measures. Insights from the early risk screenings inform the biodiversity and ecosystem-related impacts, risks, dependencies, and opportunities identified and assessed in the DMA for sites in our own operations. This process highlights the importance of early assessments at the beginning of each of our projects to avoid and mitigate potential impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 85%