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Ipieca is the global oil and gas association for advancing environmental and social performance across the energy transition. We have been championing good practice for 50 years.

Ipieca is the global oil and gas association dedicated to advancing environmental and social performance across the energy transition. It brings together members and stakeholders to lead in integrating sustainability by advancing climate action, environmental responsibility and social performance across oil, gas and renewables activities.

Ipieca was founded at the request of the United Nations Environment Programme in 1974. Through its non-lobby and collaborative approach Ipieca remains the industry’s principal channel of engagement with the UN.

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Sustainability focused
Ipieca is driving industry action on the energy transition and sustainable development agenda. We bring together the expertise of members and stakeholders to develop good practice and solutions to some of the biggest sustainability challenges facing the planet, providing global leadership on integrating sustainability, advancing climate action, environmental responsibility and social performance.
Non-lobby
Ipieca’s focus is on providing the technical knowledge, good practice and solutions to encourage continuous improvement in industry performance, as well as improving understanding of sustainability-related opportunities, challenges and policies for the industry. Our non-lobby status has enabled us to remain the industry’s principal channel of engagement with the United Nations, to build trusted relationships throughout the UN system, and develop impactful partnerships across the IGO, NGO and academic worlds.
Collaborative
Collaboration is at the heart of what Ipieca does. We convene technical experts from across our member companies with key stakeholders to explore emerging sustainable development topics and work together to develop good practice guidance across our strategic pillars of sustainability, climate, nature and people.
Full value chain
Ipieca is the only global sustainability association which covers both the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, providing environmental and social good practice which covers full project lifecycles including supply chain actors. Our scope now also supports alternative energy technologies.

50 years of Ipieca

Ipieca was founded in 1974 at the request of the UN Environment Programme to act as the UN-industry interface on environmental and climate issues. In the five decades that have followed, Ipieca has formed impactful partnerships with a wide range of UN, NGOs and academic organizations, and is now involved with the UN on all its strategic pillars: climate, nature, people and sustainability.

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What we do

Our current vision, mission and strategy provides a strong framework for delivering on our mandate to advance the oil and gas industry’s environmental and social performance and contribution to the energy transition in the context of sustainable development

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Key milestones

Working with its members and stakeholders from the United Nations, NGOs, civil society and academia, Ipieca has made a significant contribution to advancing environmental and social performance across the energy transition.

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How we are organized

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Who we work with

Ipieca was established following the launch of and request from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), for the oil and gas industry to form channels of communication with the programme.

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