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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 comprehensive list of material sites within your operations, including those under your operational control, that have been identified as having material impacts, risks, or opportunities in relation to your strategy and business model. Specifically, disclose the locations where activities are negatively affecting biodiversity-sensitive areas, as outlined in paragraph 17(a).
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Question Id: E4.SBM-3_02
In addition to the operational sites, we had 12 assets under construction in 2024, which were identified as material sites that temporarily have activities negatively affecting biodiversity-sensitive areas. These sites are listed in the table on page 114 and include nine offshore wind and three solar PV projects. At the offshore construction sites, biodiversity impacts were primarily associated with monopile piling, which generates noise pollution, and cable laying, which disrupts benthic and intertidal habitats. Additionally, the increased vessel traffic during construction caused further disruption to the ecosystem through noise pollution. For the solar PV assets under construction, biodiversity impacts were primarily due to land clearing and cable laying, which caused temporary habitat disruption and species displacement. Additionally, the operation of machinery contributed to noise pollution. All these impacts are appropriately managed or mitigated through implementation of measures agreed through impact assessment and permitting processes.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 85%