19.01.2017

Gasum’s new Corporate Responsibility Program and objectives – Towards a cleaner tomorrow

Gasum has updated its Corporate Responsibility Program and set new corporate responsibility objectives. In accordance with Gasum’s value proposition "Purposefully and responsibly moving towards new opportunities”, responsibility is a key value advanced though the Corporate Responsibility Program. The program promotes sustainability in line with the Gasum strategy. Progress made with the program is monitored, and key outcomes are communicated annually in our Corporate Responsibility Report.

The Corporate Responsibility Program supports the Gasum strategy by providing steering for responsibility work. The program summarizes our material issues relating to corporate responsibility under four themes and their underlying aspects. Gasum’s corporate responsibility objectives have been set on the basis of these. The themes and aspects are significant for our economic, social and environmental impacts or for our various stakeholders.

Gasum’s corporate responsibility themes and aspects as well as objectives are as follows:

Carbon-neutral future and innovations

• Emission-reducing solutions
• Expansion of the gas market
• Development of new business models and partnerships
• Competitiveness of gas

Objectives

• Targeting R&D to increase biobased production and improve energy efficiency
• Expanding the biogas market to the terawatt-hours range at the annual level in Finland by 2025
• Creating new business partnerships and utilizing new technologies

 Better society with our stakeholders

• Openness, transparency and active dialog
• Investments and taxes
• Personnel wellbeing and competencies

Objectives

• Investing in the Nordic countries and contributing towards strengthening the      national trade balance
• Developing our competencies in order to implement our strategy in a changing operating environment 

Forerunner in safety and supply security

• Promoting safe use of gas
• Corporate and personnel security
• Reliability of all services

Objectives

• Achieving zero injuries and accidents at work
• Achieving zero unforeseen delivery disruptions in gas supply

Understanding life-cycle impacts

• Supply chain efficiency and impacts
• Product use impacts
• Supplier responsibility

Objectives

• Promoting the transition to a low-carbon society
• Achieving through energy saving actions a reduction of 7.5% from the 2015 level in energy consumption by 2025
• Ensuring the realization of responsibility in the supply chain together with our suppliers

For more information please contact:
Juha Häkämies, Vice President, Strategy, Gasum
Phone +358 400 770577, firstname.surname@gasum.fi

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