BG Group reporting structure
Conduct
Describes how we conduct our business relationships in accordance with our Business Principles, and how we integrate CR into business processes. Here you will find our approach to corporate governance and stakeholder dialogue. We also cover whistleblowing in this section.Our People
Explains our employment practices, training and development programmes and methods for employee engagement. The section also describes how we strive to keep our people healthy, safe and secure.Society
Examines how we manage relations with communities impacted by our operations. It sets out our approach to managing the effect of our presence on local communities, sustainable development, social investment and human rights, and how we work to share the benefits of our presence.Environment
Explains how we manage our environmental risks and aim to maximise the environmental benefits of natural gas over other fossil fuels. Includes information on climate change, air quality and biodiversity and other issues such as hydrocarbon spills, controlled hydrocarbon discharges, waste management and resource use.Back to top
In this report, we set out our performance in areas of greatest interest to our stakeholders across our Business Principles, in a way that allows stakeholders to measure that performance against clear and specific targets.
In Our approach to Corporate Responsibility (CR) we explain, what it means to us and how we seek to ensure that we operate responsibly.
This report focuses on the issues that our stakeholders consider to be of most importance. It also addresses BG Group's own internal assessment of how these CR issues relate to the measures and risks considered material to BG Group. More information on how we identify stakeholder priorities and the risks we consider key to our business can be found in Materiality and Scope.
These issues are assessed across BG Group's businesses in Exploration and Production (E&P), Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Transmission and Distribution (T&D) and Power Generation.
The four central sections of the report – conduct, our people, society and environment – are structured around the Business Principles specific to that section. This approach highlights our performance against the measures we set ourselves, and reflects our belief that CR means putting our Business Principles into practice.
Each section includes a question from one of our stakeholders, together with our answer. Questions were submitted by our stakeholders, including Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) analysts, independent institutions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and from the questions submitted we selected those most relevant for this report. Those not selected will be answered on our website. For details on how to submit a question for our 2008 report, please see Stakeholder Questions.
Within Summary of Performance we lay out our targets for 2008, based on our Business Principles. We also present our 2007 targets and the extent to which they were achieved. We will continue to report our progress against these targets annually. The data tables within Social and environment data provide a statistical measure of our performance in 2007.
BG Group is a signatory of the UN Global Compact (UNGC). In the UN Global Compact you will find an index demonstrating our adherence to the UNGC's ten principles in our work. This index cross-refers to relevant Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) indicators.
This Report has been subjected to an Independent Assurance review by Ernst & Young. Points identified for improvement in the last year's Report can be found in the Independent Assurance statement, together with our progress in addressing them. We have also included a number of Ernst & Young remarks throughout this Report.
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