We are committed to sustaining the environment by combating climate change and tackling air pollution.
Sustainability reportWe are committed to sustaining the environment by combating climate change and tackling air pollution. Aligning our sustainability efforts across our local organisations is a never-ending task, as new insights and learnings always illuminate new questions to be investigated.
There are several activities that we’re engaging in to sustain the environment.
Aligning our sustainability actions across our organisations is a key focus of our sustainability agenda. Our sustainability leaders play a key role in this. All sustainability leaders report directly to their local business unit and work closely with the Group’s sustainability manager.
Our aim is to lower our carbon footprint by reducing CO2 emissions throughout the value chain. We search for places where we can implement energy savings and the use of renewable energy. Additionally, we want to improve our carbon impact – the effect of our products or services on the carbon footprint of customers. We’d like to help them lower their emissions, by helping them make the switch from polluting fuels to cleaner solutions.
We add an Internal Carbon Price for carbon emissions to our investment proposals, to prepare for the future effects of carbon pricing schemes as a way of risk mitigation and a way to select cleaner investment opportunities.
Essential to our sustainable ambitions is setting measurable goals and creating systems to measure our performance over time. Our Sustainability Measurement Framework allows us to track, understand and improve our performance in sustainability. It includes a dashboard that helps business units to compare their individual performance against their targets, before drilling down into the fine details of their impact along the whole value chain.
Making figures tangible
CO2 emissions can be hard to grasp conceptually. Most of us understand what 10 meter means or 10 seconds, but what is 10 tonnes of CO2?
In explaining our impact we aim to make the figures we communicate tangible by comparing it to things that resonate.
involves lowering our direct and indirect emissions throughout the entire value chain
1 8 5 4 4 5 1 7 t CO2 emitted
involves offsetting our emissions by considering the effect of our products or services on our customers’ carbon footprint
2 7 7 8 6 4 t CO2 saved
We strive to engage every employee to contribute to our sustainability performance, turning their individual behaviour into collective impactFrank Rietdijk — Group Sustainability Manager at SHV Energy
We are proud of how our employees help us drive sustainability throughout the group, both in their everyday behaviours and with the high standards they hold us to.
Every day, they work to 'advance energy together', providing customers with cleaner, more sustainable options, and innovating and developing the energy products of the future.
