Ipieca guidance to support a net-zero future that cares for nature and leaves no one behind | Ipieca

Ipieca’s suite of good practice and tools support companies to produce the energy the world needs with lower emissions, while enhancing people’s lives and caring for nature. We also support the sustainable scale up of energy transition solutions, advancing environmental and social performance across the energy transition.

Reducing emissions

Ipieca-IOGP-World Bank’s GGFR Flaring management guidance

The Ipieca-IOGP-GFMR Flaring management guidance outlines new developments in flaring management and reduction, and examines industry experiences with eliminating flaring, new technologies, business models, operational improvements and regulatory policy.

Ipieca-IOGP-OGCI Recommended practices for methane emissions detection and quantification technologies - upstream

Responding to the continuous advancement of technology, Ipieca, IOGP, OGCI, and the Energy Institute have released an update of this guidance and online tool to help operators select and deploy methane detection and quantification technologies.

Energy efficiency

Ipieca-IOGP Compendium of energy and GHG efficient technologies and practices

This online compendium provides an introduction to energy efficiency measures for upstream and downstream oil and gas facilities, and aims to raise awareness and uptake of such technologies and practices across the industry.

Carbon capture and storage

Ipieca-SPE Gaia-IOGP-OGCI Carbon capture and storage webinar series

This webinar series shares knowledge and good practice around the scaling up of CCS technology, including key issues, environmental responsibility, financial incentives and liability concerns.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen: enabling the energy transition and the pathways to net-zero emissions

Provides an overview of hydrogen technology and areas of application, with a range of industry case studies.

Cleaner fuels and products

Ipieca-UNEP Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles Lower-sulphur fuels, road transport strategies and air quality improvements

Guidance on lower-sulphur fuels, managing road transport emissions and improving air quality.

Exploring low-emissions pathways for transport

Details the range of technologies and solutions which can support the transport sector to lower its emissions and impact on air quality.

Carbon-compensated products

The role of carbon-compensated products in the energy transition

This briefing builds a shared understanding of carbon-compensated products, their role in supporting net-zero ambitions and the energy transition, and explores good practice in using them.

Adaptation and resilience

Adaptation and resilience workshop series reports

These provide a summary of the Ipieca workshop series on climate change adaptation and resilience, covering:

Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Indigenous Peoples and the oil and gas industry: context, issues and emerging good practice

Provides an overview of Indigenous Peoples and the policy and regulatory context relevant to the sector's interaction with them, a summary of some of the specific issues for oil and gas companies to consider when operating in areas with Indigenous Peoples. The document concludes with a summary of emerging good practice.

Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) toolbox

Includes international instruments, mapping tools, key guidance literature and FPIC factsheets.

Community development agreements guidance

Helps oil and gas companies decide whether a community development agreement is appropriate and helps them understand the actions that need to be taken to successfully negotiate and implement a community development agreements.

Offshore impacts to fisheries: practitioner guidance for social baselines

Contains information on key indicators, data collection tools and techniques, tips and a suite of case-studies from Ipieca members. It is designed to support practitioners in developing robust social baselines.

Meaningful engagement

Supports companies and practitioners to make engagements meaningful experiences for all stakeholders involved, providing guidance on broader, inclusive and ongoing two-way processes.

Human rights due diligence guidance

Assists oil and gas companies in integrating human rights due diligence guidance processes into existing company processes.

Nature-based solutions

Ipieca-OGCI Natural climate solutions: high carbon stock ecosystems management

Supports the Paris Agreement goals by setting out the key principles to help energy companies conserve, enhance and restore the high carbon stock ecosystems where they operate.

Managing biodiversity and ecosystem services across the energy transition: mainstreaming the mitigation hierarchy

Outlines the key messages on biodiversity and ecosystem services good practices for the industry, and explores how industry and governments can support and work with each other to mainstream biodiversity across the energy transition.

Water stewardship

Presents users with a streamlined water stewardship action scheme that synthesises water frameworks and disclosure standards for the energy sector as well as water challenges for oil and gas, renewables and transition technologies such as CCS and hydrogen.

Scaling up renewables sustainably

Raw materials for the energy transition webinar series

Ipieca held a three-part webinar series to deepen understanding around the environmental and social challenges and solutions to the increased demand for the raw materials required for the energy transition.

Good practices in supply chain management and carbon footprint of wind and solar energy technologies: literature review

A review of existing good practices for environmental and social risks across the supply chain and carbon footprint management across the project life cycle of onshore and offshore wind and solar PV technologies.

Environmental and social good practice for the energy transition: a compendium of Ipieca good practices

The compendium provides an overview of Ipieca guidance and tools on environmental and social performance which have cross-sector applicability, detailing which alternative energy technologies will benefit most from its use.