Environmental performance indicators

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Part 2: Standard Disclosures

Environmental Performance Indicators

The environmental dimension of sustainability concerns an organization’s impacts on living and non-living natural systems, including ecosystems, land, air, and water.  The structure of environmental indicators covers input (material, energy, water) and output (emissions, effluents, waste) related performance. In addition they cover performance related to biodiversity, environmental compliance, and other relevant information such as environmental expenditure, and the impacts of products and services.

Disclosure on Management Approach
Provide a concise disclosure on the following items with reference to the following aspects:

1. Materials
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Biodiversity
5. Emissions, Effluents, and Waste
6. Products and Services
7. Transport

Policy
State any brief, organization-wide policy (or policies) that define the organization’s overall commitment on the areas listed above or state where this can be found in the public domain (e.g. web link).

Responsibility
Identify the most senior position with operational responsibility for Environment areas or explain how operational responsibility is divided at the senior level for Environment areas.

Management
Identify key elements of management approach, including certifications for Environment related systems obtained from outside parties. Indicate percentage of operations covered by certifications.

Goals & Performance
List organization-wide goals set regarding performance against the Environment topics listed above.  

Report performance against goals. Use company-specific indicators as needed in addition to the GRI performance indicators.

Awards
Identify relevant awards related to performance on Environment issues that the organization has received from external parties.

Fines
Indicate the total amount and number of Environment related civil and criminal fines and other penalties (including imprisonment) assessed against the organization or its directors and officers when in their organizational capacity.  Explain what response has been taken to resolve any issue for which significant fines were paid or for which organization’s directors or officers were imprisoned.

Context
Disclose other relevant information required for stakeholders using the report to understand organizational performance, including:

• Key successes and shortcomings;
• Major organizational risks and opportunities related environment issues; and
• Major changes in the reporting period to systems or structures to improve performance

Environmental Performance Indicators

Aspect: Materials
EN 1. Weight of materials used (core
EN2. Percentage of materials used that are recycled (core)

Aspect: Energy
EN3. Direct energy consumption broken down by primary energy source (core)
EN4. Indirect energy consumption broken down by primary source (core)
EN5. Percentage of total energy consumption met by renewable resources (additional)
EN6. Total energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements  (additional)EN7. Initiatives to provide energy-efficient products and services (additional)
EN8. Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption (additional)

Aspect: Water
EN9. Total water withdrawal by source (core)
EN10. Water sources and related habitats significantly affected by withdrawal of water (additional)
EN11. Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused (additional)

Aspect: Biodiversity
EN12. Location and size of land owned, leased, or managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas (core)
EN13. Description of significant impacts of activities on protected areas (core)
EN14. Area of habitats protected or restored (additional)
EN15. Programs for managing impacts on biodiversity (additional)
EN16. Number of IUCN Red List species with habitats in areas affected by operations broken down by level of extinction risk (additional)

Aspect: Emissions, Effluents, and Waste
EN17. Greenhouse gas emissions (core)
EN18. Emissions of ozone-depleting substances (core)
EN19. NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions by weight (core)
EN20. Total amount of waste by type and destination (core)
EN21. Total water discharge and quality (core)
EN22. Total number and volume of significant spills (core)
EN23. Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions (core)
EN24. Weight of transported, imported, or exported waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention Annex I, II, III and VIII (additional)
EN25. Water sources and related habitats significantly affected by discharges of water and runoff (additional)

Aspect: Products and Services
EN26.Initiatives to manage the environmental impacts of products and services and extent of impact reduction (core)
EN27.Percentage of products sold that is reclaimed at the end of the products’ useful life by product category (core)

Aspect: Compliance
EN28.Incidents of, and fines or non-monetary sanctions for, non-compliance with applicable environmental regulations (core)

Aspect: Transport
EN29.Significant environmental impacts of transportation used for logistical purposes (additional)

Aspect: Overall
EN30.Total environmental protection expenditures by type (additional)

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