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storing and reusing nonfresh water in order to handle it responsibly and make it useable for our operations.

Signs describing the species, its seeds and pictures showing mature trees will accompany the trees.

g e 5 The diversity of our business operations enables us to invest the cash flow gener- ated from other operations, including farming, mineral resources and our various joint ventures, into the entitlement and future development efforts of our resi- dential communities.

In order to protect particularly sensitive species, such as right whales, our Operating Lines require bridge watch leaders to be familiar with whale identification and reporting requirements prior to entering protected areas, especially those in the northern and southern Atlantic Ocean.

The reservoirs also enable us to optimize selling prices by generating and selling power during higher-priced peak periods.

When the 10-year plan is completed, the site will be a self- sustaining wetlands community with a four-acre, high-quality forested wetlands component.

The primary environmental concern related to ballasting and deballasting is the potential for the transfer of damaging non-indigenous or invasive species from one ecosystem to another.

Opportunity type: Products and services Primary climate-related opportunity driver: Development and/or expansion of low emission goods and services Type of financial impact driver : Increased revenue through demand for lower emissions products and services Company- specific description: Autonomous electric vehicles offer GM a significant business opportunity to combat climate change.

Organizational Responsibility We have a Senior Director of Sustainability, reporting to our Chief Operating Officer, who oversees performance across all aspects of sustainability.

We have been using liquefied natural gas for long-haul transportation in China on about 30% of cross-province routes.

WALFA supports over 300 indigenous jobs per year, conserves 174ConocoPhillips 2018 Sustainability ReportCreating Shared Value |▲ Back to Table of Contents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00oZmYKhyD8 rainforest vegetation, protects local wildlife and rock art sites and allows cultural aspects of land management to be passed down to younger generations.

Each person on planet Earth uses wood and products made from wood every day—in homes, other buildings, paper products, furnishings and tools.

AEP’s National Accounts team manages corporate relationships with many of our largest customers.

Much of our ownership is in large, contiguous blocks, which provides important wildlife habitat and water quality protection in an increasingly fragmented landscape.

But don't think of it as a massive windfall yet.

In 2017, 93 percent of the paper we used across the enterprise was sustainably sourced.

One of our greatest potential impacts on biodiversity is a risk that can be introduced through ballast water, which is seawater that is intentionally pumped into and carried in tanks to adjust a ship’s draft, buoyancy, trim, list, and stability under various operating conditions.

The agreement provides the District with assurance that sufficient water and sewer connection fees will be prepaid by Core Communities to service outstanding bonds of the District.

FROM AROUND THE WORLD France Employees Create a Buzz Employees from Cisco’s Paris office were concerned about the decline of bee populations and presented this topic at one of their monthly environmental meetings in 2009.

Traditional fabric mills use a great deal of water and chemicals during the dyeing and finishing process, and wastewater must be treated to ensure that both ecosystems and nearby communities are protected.

In 2014, Chevron collaborated with Conservation International to use motion-activated cameras to identify and track Javan leopards and other rare and Above: A hidden camera captures a rare black Javan leopard in the Mount Halimun Salak National Park in West Java, Indonesia.

As we further reduce our energy footprint in our owned and operated facilities, we continue to look for ways to best extend those efforts to our global operations and suppliers.

If not managed in a sustainable manner, some of these products— including those originating from forests and those derived from palm oil—may cause adverse social and environmental impacts.

Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 hurricane, passes directly over St. Martin and Anguilla, just north of Puerto Rico.

We compete against large and well-established national and global companies, as well as regional and local companies and lower cost manufacturers.

Plastic Bank’s token rewards and exchange platform incentivizes the collection of plastic, preventing it from entering the oceans.

As a result, the properties that have installed smart irrigation systems have reduced their use of irrigation water by 24% from the pre-installation baseline.

A cleAnup operAtion with A lonG-term rewArd Apache’s Midale Field in Canada, which was discovered 57 years ago, has become a test bed for ways to extend the life of oil fields while reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Compliance provides training on the Code of Conduct and Ethics as well as, among other, on corruption and bribery issues, aiming to raise awareness and cultivate a strong culture of values and integrity within the Group.

Recycling While some communities already recycle our paper and plastic cups, most don’t have the infrastructure in place to handle collection, hauling and processing due to a lack of demand for cup material by the recycling industry.

In partnership with universities, government agencies and other companies, we have been exploring various ways to use algae to remove nutrients, such as phosphorus, that are harmful to the Bay’s ecosystem.

Sustainable infrastructure projects that involve the generation, transmission or sale of electricity such as renewable energy projects may be “qualifying facilities” that are exempt from regulation as public utilities by the “FERC under the Federal Power Act, (the “FPA”) while certain other such projects may be subject to rate regulation by the FERC under the FPA.

For ongoing operations, we assess risks and usage of water and energy and implement improvements whether they be minor process changes or significant capital projects.

The UN FAO projects that irrigated food production will increase by more than 50 percent by 2050, but the amount of water withdrawn by agriculture can increase by only 10 percent - provided that practices are improved and yields increase.1 And according to the EPA, the frequency, intensity, and duration of drought events are increasing in many areas of the U.S.

Community engagement, including aboriginal and employee involvement via training, planting days, and other field activities, is a key part of program implementation.

Notably, the average tree conserved through this carbon offset program is responsible for sequestering up to 7.5 metric tons of CO2 over its lifetime.

We also compete across consumer finance, wealth management and insurance with platforms affiliated with major internet companies and business ecosystems in China, such as Ant Financial, JD Finance and Ping An One Connect.

Ozone Depleting Emissions – as CFC-11 Equivalents M et ri c To ns p er Y ea r 250 200 150 100 50 0 20152014201320122011201020092008200720062005 2016 2017 2018 6 Ninety-seven percent of ozone-depleting emissions have been eliminated since 2005 as gases identified by the Montreal Protocol have been phased out.

• Added 50 MW of biomass cogeneration at an existing paper mill site.

For example, F-GHGs used to clean panels in the production of LCD displays have global warming potentials as much as 22,800 times greater than CO 2 and remain in the atmosphere for up to 3,200 years.18 Abatement activities can prevent the release of F-GHGs during the cleaning process.

In FY13, as part of the EICC Learning & Capability Building Work Group, Cisco led the refresh of industry training materials on health and safety and contributed to the development of training for commodity managers, due to be completed in FY14. Supply Chain We are embedding responsible supply chain practices into routine business processes to make sustainability a key criterion in our assessment of, and ongoing relationships with, our suppliers.

Rising sea levels could, in the future, affect the value of any coastal assets that the Group owns or develops.

These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to the predictability and volatility of, and customer expectations about, agriculture, fertilizer, raw material, energy and transportation markets that are subject to competitive and other pressures and economic and credit market conditions; the build-up of inventories in the distribution channels for crop nutrients; changes in foreign currency and exchange rates; international trade risks; changes in government policy; changes in environmental and other governmental regulation, including greenhouse gas regulation, and implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s numeric water quality standards for the discharge of nutrients into Florida lakes and streams; further developments in the lawsuit involving the federal wetlands permit for the extension of the Company’s South Fort Meade, Florida, mine into Hardee County, including orders, rulings, injunctions or other actions by the court or actions by the plaintiffs, the Army Corps of Engineers or others in relation to the lawsuit, or any actions the Company may identify and implement in an effort to mitigate the effects of the lawsuit; other difficulties or delays in receiving, or increased costs, or revocation, of, necessary governmental permits or approvals; further developments in the lawsuit involving the tolling agreement at the Company’s Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, potash mine, including settlement or orders, rulings, injunctions or other actions by the court, the plaintiff or others in relation to the lawsuit; the effectiveness of our processes for managing our strategic priorities; adverse weather conditions affecting operations in Central Florida or the Gulf Coast of the United States, including potential hurricanes or excess rainfall; actual costs of various items differing from management’s current estimates, including among others asset retirement, environmental remediation, reclamation or other environmental regulation, or Canadian resource taxes and royalties; accidents and other disruptions involving Mosaic’s operations, including brine inflows at its Esterhazy, Saskatchewan potash mine and other potential mine fires, floods, explosions, seismic events or releases of hazardous or volatile chemicals, as well as other risks and uncertainties reported from time to time in The Mosaic Company’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As I've mentioned, their operations are heavily skewed to coating and finishing, not paper manufacturing.

We also participated in the healthcare working group of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), which helped inform SASB’s Biotechnology Sustainability Accounting Standard.

During the year Nalco (water treatment chemicals, US) was added as a new holding while the holding in Kurita (water treatment technology, Japan) was reduced.

The FDIC’s current system represents a change, required by the Dodd-Frank Act, from its prior practice of basing the assessment on an institution’s aggregate deposits.

In alignment with our Caring core value, we launched a new global program in 2015 called Employee Safety Responsibility, Ownership and Behavior (ROB).

In partnership with the Oregon Department of Forestry and other agencies, we are conducting an integrated, multi-disciplinary study on the effects of forest management on fish and the aquatic ecosystems of the watershed.

Following a favorable appellate judicial ruling in January 2009, we reversed these amounts as oil and gas revenues in the first quarter of 2009 and began accounting for the additional oil and gas revenues associated with the previously disputed royalty net revenue interest and we are no longer accruing any additional royalty reserves (Note 6).

Approximately 75 percent of our Eagle Ford water supply came from non-fresh sources in 2013.

Sincerely,  Reduce energy consumption, improve waste and water management at our properties and offices.

Through this project, we will be working with regional and local stakeholders to address water risks and ensure water security in this basin by prioritizing solutions that consider both the river basin and apparel facility conditions.

Our SOVE also includes an environmental standard that says we expect vendors to operate in compliance with environmental laws and minimize their impact on their surroundings and global resources.

Less than potato & WaSte When we cut our potatoes to make French fries and other products, white starch is washed into the water system.

In late 2011, Kimberly-Clark partnered with the U.S. National Wildlife Federation (NWF) to restore longleaf pine on private land in Alabama.

Alabama is more of a pulpwood market, and Mississippi's more of a sawlog market.

We help ensure their success by raising awareness about key issues, from conflict minerals and compliance to employee health and safety.

It also has a 100-year global warming potential between 4.7 and 7, a staggering 99 percent improvement over 245fa.

303-2 Management of water dischargerelated impacts GRI 303: WATER AND EFFLUENTS 303-3 Water withdrawal Not applicable due to the type of Group financial activity.

In 2020, we ran a joint Risk pro Week for the first time involving the UK, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and the Corporate Centre in Spain, cultivating employees' appreciation for risk management in everyday functions with informative materials, messages, videos and webinars.

Continued emissions reductions We continue to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions through extensive energy efficiency efforts in our buildings and network, optimization of our vehicle fleet and through large-scale renewable energy purchases.

We implement many types of water efficient installations at our properties, including smart water systems, motion sensor and aerator faucets, low-flow toilets, retention ponds, rain sensors, turf block, and drought resistant landscaping.

Commencing with the investment in us by the Starwood Fund in September 2010, our business was converted into a Delaware limited liability company, TRI Pointe Homes, LLC, and evolved into primarily building, marketing and selling homes for our own account.

We have ELT champions for key issues in sustainability: overall implementation, stakeholder engagement, human rights, climate change, water and biodiversity.

This commitment to inclusion extends to supporting and participating in positive action programmes outside of the Group aimed at cultivating future leaders, including ‘An Inspirational Journey’ and FTSE-100 crosscompany mentoring programmes.

Traditional fabric mills use a great deal of water and chemicals during the dyeing and finishing process, and wastewater must be treated to ensure that both ecosystems and nearby communities are protected.

For example, at our Tanami operation in Australia, we employ the local aboriginal Warlpiri Rangers for land management work – such as weed control, fire management and biodiversity – at our mine site.

Richard Moss, Vice President and Managing Director, Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund U.S.

We have been members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2006 and have a Healthy Future 2015 goal to buy all of our ingredients derived from palm oil from certified sustainable sources by year-end 2015.

One local resident who has reaped the benefits of having participated in the training program, Sri Yuni Setyawati, graduated from the school of Marine Engineering at Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology in November 2013.

The plant uses a combination of turkey droppings, wood chips, seed hulls, shed feathers and spilled feed to power the 55 MW biomass plant that began operating in mid-2007.

The Group also continued its support for a project promoting ecological sanitation techniques around Puzhehei Lake in Yunnan province, China, a previous award winner with significant long-term potential.

We have incurred increased operational costs as a result of the introduction of public health measures and other regulations affecting our properties, as well as additional health and safety measures adopted by us and our operators related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including increases in labor, personal protective equipment and sanitation.

At a landscape scale, this diversity of ownership, age class, and forest structure provide a wide range of habitat diversity for native species.

Big River and Salmon Creek Forests – This project reforms forest management practices on land purchased from a logging company by a consortium of conservation groups, and manages the land to ensure increasing carbon sequestration.

Once a site has been selected for certification, we evaluate its associated impacts, including corporate functional areas; associated products, activities, or services at that location; and the environmental impacts associated with the generation or use of materials, impacts on air and water, and depletion of natural resources.

Union Pacific used an estimated 1.14 billion gallons of water, a reduction from 1.25 billion in 2016.

Two of our directors (our chairman of the board, Ray Stata, and our CEO, Jerald Fishman) are not “independent” because they are, or have been, employed by ADI within the past three years.

By purchasing these certified coffees, we hope to not only meet our customers’ needs but also to help protect the environment and farmers’ livelihoods in coffee- growing regions.

CDP holds the largest global collection of self-reported climate change, water and forest-risk data in an effort to transform the way the world does business to prevent dangerous climate change and protect natural resources.

In 2018, we diverted 375,000 metric tons of waste from landfills.

The compensation of HighMount’s reservoir engineers is not dependent on the quantity of reserves booked.

The company has fi ve reportable segments: (a) property operations, which are principally commercial offi ce properties, residential development and home building operations, located primarily in major North American and Brazilian cities; (b) power generation operations, which are predominantly hydroelectric power generating facilities on river systems in North America and Brazil; (c) timberlands which are predominantly high quality private timberlands in North America and in Brazil; (d) infrastructure operations, which are predominantly electrical transmission and distribution systems located in northern Ontario and Chile; and (e) specialty funds, which include the company’s bridge lending, real estate fi nance and restructuring funds along with the company’s public securities operations and are managed for the company and for institutional partners.

At Western Union alone, we estimate that this reduced our Company’s paper usage by approximately 2,754 reams in 2012 – up from 2,480 reams in 2011 – and we believe that this would be a beneficial industry-wide shift.

This refers to materials that are shipped offsite for treatment, recycling, incineration, and landfill; and excludes electronic waste.

Our offshore operations provide energy while conserving ecosystems and supporting the livelihoods of fishermen.

Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS) is the business unit of Dow that provides sustainable liquid purification and separation solutions, and it has been a vocal proponent of the circular economy model that emphasizes the need to safely reduce, reuse and reclaim the world’s limited water resources, sustained by advances in science and technology.

With the first crops of strawberries now being harvested and sold back to Kawana, our customers are quite literally enjoying the fruits of our labour.

We have land in Uruguay certified to the Forest Stewardship Council standard and the Uruguayan National Standard, which is endorsed under the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification.

In the quarter, around 25% of our new customers came from the WeChat mini-program and the JD flagship store.

In addition, longer-term natural catastrophe trends may be changing and new types of catastrophe losses may be developing due to climate change, a phenomenon that has been associated with extreme weather events linked to rising temperatures, and includes effects on global weather patterns, greenhouse gases, sea, land and air temperatures, sea levels, rain, hail and snow.

Sustainability Oiltanking GmbH, our coshareholder and operating partner for the Oystercatcher terminals, has long placed significant focus on sustainability.

In 2011, we grew our use of wind and solar power by more than 700 megawatts, and we signed several new contracts for wind energy at a very low cost, making it competitive with some fossil fuel generation.

Since joining Albion Ventures in 2007, Marco has been involved in hotel, cinema, pub, residential property and garden centre investments and is, more recently, responsible for a number of renewable energy investments.

We are experts at managing sustainable forests, and we understand how to use this remarkable resource to create superior solutions to address society's needs.

Biodiesel can be made from vegetable oils, recycled restaurant oils or animal fat.

• Other specialty reinsurance: coverage provided to ceding company clients for personal and commercial auto (other than excess auto liability), mortgage, surety, accident and health, workers’ compensation catastrophe, agriculture, marine and aviation.

Examples of this can be found in the Sustainability report on pages 44 to 49.

We provide details on specific economic, environmental, and social risks in our annual 10-K and quarterly 10-Q filings, CDP Climate Change response, CDP Water response, and CDP Forest response.