Aramco's sustainability framework, which includes minimizing its environmental impact, sets out the areas that hold the greatest potential for their business to make long-term positive impacts, and includes connecting their biodiversity aspirations to relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The UN SDGs, Global Biodiversity Framework and Ipieca's guidance have informed Aramco's new Biodiversity Protection Corporate Policy and standard operating procedure, in which all new projects are required to deliver a net positive impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
SDG Roadmap impact opportunities
Biodiversity, land and water stewardship
Ipieca has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to develop a shared understanding of the implications of the UN SDGs for the oil and gas industry and how the industry can most effectively contribute.
This Ipieca-IOGP guidance is designed to help HSE/SD professionals to develop biodiversity action plans (BAPs) for their activities and projects.
The BES Fundamentals guidance document which brings together information essential to informing BES strategy development and decision making at the corporate level ...
Ocean for Life strategy
PTTEP's 'Ocean for Life' strategy, driven by its offshore operations, aims to achieve a net-positive impact on ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services value for all offshore operations (from base year 2019), increase community income by 50%, and establish 16,000 conservation networks by 2030.
Onshore water management app
Murphy Oil continues to evolve and enhance the water management software application that was first developed for its Tupper Montney asset in 2019. Today, the app supports its entire onshore water operations in the US and Canada with real-time monitoring, reporting and alerts.