Vestas Wind Systems
ESRS disclosure: E4.IRO-1_01
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- 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
Our biodiversity and ecosystems-related impacts, risks, and opportunities (IROs) are identified through an impact assessment developed in collaboration with third-party experts, utilizing third-party platforms and by consulting internal subject matter experts. The assessment covers our entire value chain. During 2025, we aim to collect more robust data to further refine and support the materiality conclusions.
The impact assessment of our own operations is split into two categories: impacts arising from factories (e.g., land occupation and pollution from paint), and impacts arising from other own operations activities, e.g., service and construction of on- and offshore wind farms and the related emissions from transportation. For our own operations, we consider land use, climate change, air pollution, and water use impacts. The impact on our downstream value chain is an assessment of how wind turbine parks might affect biodiversity and ecosystems during operation.
The analysis of transition and physical biodiversity risks (including systemic risks) is conducted using third-party software solutions, also allowing assessment of biodiversity risks across multiple future looking scenarios and time horizons, and by leveraging internal and external subject matter expertise. See section E1 IRO-1 on page 65 for more information on the scenarios used in the analysis. No specific assessment criteria were applied in the analysis as a consequence of our material biodiversity impact.
Report Date: 4Q2024Relevance: 85%