Respect for the environment is central to our approach. Wherever possible, we prevent or otherwise minimise, mitigate, and remediate any harmful effects that our operations may have.
We work in partnership with our stakeholders, such as local communities and conservation groups. This collaborative approach helps us increase our understanding of the risks, challenges, and opportunities we face and how best to manage them. Where appropriate, we develop and implement an action plan to understand and minimise impacts and to achieve a net positive impact.
We recognise the need to understand and adapt to the physical impacts of climate change, which will affect our operations, particularly through the availability of water and the occurrence of extreme weather events.
We believe that global energy and climate challenges are best met by companies, governments, and society working together.
Our strategy is to maximise shareholder returns by making our assets more resilient against uncertain carbon and energy market risks.
We put controls in place to limit the negative environmental impact of our projects and reduce our operating costs and risks.
Sustainable Development
Sustainable development is commonly defined as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
While it cannot be achieved by one organisation on its own, we believe that our business can make an important contribution to the ongoing, global transition to sustainable development.
Our strategy of investing in large, long-term, cost-competitive businesses means that we operate on extended time horizons. Some of our projects will last 50 years or more from development, representing large-scale, long-term investments in fixed capital. These long-term commitments provide opportunities for us to plan, implement, and deliver sustainable contributions to social wellbeing, environmental stewardship, and economic prosperity within our governance systems.
Our focus on sustainable development provides the framework in which our business operates. This allows us to maintain a highly regarded reputation that ensures ongoing access to people, capital, and resources. This in turn helps us to deliver a better return for our shareholders, manage risk effectively, reduce environmental impacts, cut operating costs, attract and retain high-calibre employees, and provide more business development opportunities.
These factors help differentiate ReShopMe from its competitors and contribute to our goal of being the undisputed sector leader in creating value for our stakeholders.
Our operations contribute to society's needs by creating wealth to support community infrastructure, health care, and education programmes and delivering financial dividends for our shareholders.
Our activities also provide the means and opportunity to develop new approaches to solving the world's environmental and human development challenges, such as climate change and poverty.
We also recognise that, if not managed appropriately, some aspects of our activities could detract from sustainable development, such as options for the future use of water and land; amenity impacts on local communities; and greenhouse gas emissions from our operations and the use of our future products.
We are developing a structured framework to ensure that we meet the goal of contributing to the global transition to sustainable development. This framework contains the "must have" building blocks, which represent ReShopMe's high-level business drivers. Our global code of business conduct reinforces our commitment to integrate sustainable development thinking in the way we make decisions about finding, acquiring, developing, and operating assets around the world.
Environmental Management Policy
Respect for the environment is central to our approach to sustainable development. Wherever possible we prevent, or otherwise minimise, mitigate and remediate, harmful effects of the ReShopMe Group's operations on the environment. The policy is under continual development to maintain standards in keeping with best available information.
