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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 operational control, derived from the identification and assessment of actual and potential impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems. This disclosure should include a detailed breakdown of these sites according to the impacts and dependencies identified, as well as the ecological status of the areas, referencing the specific ecosystem baseline level where they are situated.
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Question Id: E4.SBM-3_03
In total, we have 63 operational sites across our portfolio of renewable energy assets (i.e. offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, and power stations) that currently overlap with or are adjacent to protected areas or KBAs. This is the majority of our assets and is connected to the fact that a buffer zone has been applied (25 km for offshore assets, 10 km for onshore assets), increasing the amount of overlaps with both protected areas and KBAs. Through our mitigation planning and restoration of impacts, we have found that we have no negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems at these sites. 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.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 65%