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​WE WILL BE SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS

WE ENSURE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE OPERATION ​



ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE

We assist company operations and processes with initiatives that generate environmental and social value by promoting environmentally responsible actions, including managing and offsetting impacts.  ​

 


We aim to conserve biodiversity and we contribute to minimizing impacts caused by climate by adequately managing risks and exploiting opportunities. 

We have a sound environmental management system that covers all our operations, and our commitments and actions on the subject of climate change extend throughout our supply chain.  


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Our Environmental Policy, aligned with Rio's Declaration on the Environment, the principles of the Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals,  includes explicit commitments relating to caring for biodiversity and climate change matters, promotes good practices that integrate environmental management into our risk processes, so that risks can be identified promptly and business solutions can be found.  

We measure, reduce, foresee, control, offset and restore the environmental impacts of our operations.

We incorporate caring for biodiversity as a criterion in the early planning and design stages of our projects, as well as during their construction, maintenance and operation, since it is relevant to conserving the natural riches of the countries where we operate, namely Colombia and Peru, and also to minimizing the impact of climate variations and improving the ability to absorb CO₂ emissions. 

We evaluate the current and potential environmental aspects and impacts of all our activities and we implement management and offsetting measures for all possible impacts that our activities could cause. 

We foster initiatives aimed at improving the overall management of resources such as water, energy and waste, and reducing these at source and in their classification. 

 


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TARGETS

 
 


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OUR MANAGEMENT


 
Only 61 per cent of all areas approved for new infrastructure expansion projects in the last three years were occupied, due to the fact that sections on approved rights of way were replanted, which meant that only 55 per cent of trees authorized for cutting were actually felled, and biodiversity interventions were reduced.



All areas intervened were restored and replanted: a total of 333.3 hectares.




Monitoring of endangered species such as the cotton-top marmoset in the Palmar el Tití DRMI in an area 6.58 km long in the area of influence of the Paiva-Caracolí gas pipeline project, resulting in a new group of marmosets being identified, together with six of their routes and a population density of 3.1 / km2 (prior to the project it was 2.1).

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Maintenance of the 2,342 vascular epiphyte species transferred from the new projects on the La Pastora, Loma Fresca and El Tamarín properties, resulting in a 95 per cent species survival figure.   




Offsetting of 697.63 hectares due to loss of biodiversity, tree felling, and species intervention, together with voluntary offsetting.



Training on environmental matters for 1,590 corporate workers.



Zero fines and sanctions for environmental default.     


Our total investment in studies, controls and offsetting actions was COP 7,406 million.​



OUR RECOGNITIONS


Global Compact Red Colombia recognized the Promigas Tropical Dry Forest program, a biodiversity conservation challenge, as a good Sustainable Development practice under SDG 15. 

We were also recognized as one of the 500 best projects in Latin America at the Green Latin America awards, in the Forests and Flora and Biodiversity and Flora categories; these awards recognize sustainable socioenvironmental responsibility plans and actions by governments, organizations, companies, micro-companies, communities and individuals in ten categories, including the two above, that are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. We took part with two projects in 2020:​ 

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ENVIRONMENTAL ECOEFFICIENCY

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REDUCING CONSUMPTION 



1. 2019 data for Transmetano adjusted for real consumption data, and an adjustment was made for Promioriente relating to billing cutoff date. 

2. 2018 data for CEO adjusted.

3. Includes from 2020 consumption by SPEC of seawater, which is used for heating and then returned into the sea. 




REDUCING CONSUMPTION





WASTE MANAGEMENT 

The waste management vision focuses on boosting the waste hierarchy principle by promoting the idea of preventing waste from being generated, fostering reuse and recycling, and favoring trackability. We have a comprehensive waste management plan which includes prevention and exploitation actions and selective separation for final disposal by authorized companies, and we have monthly indicators for quantifying our own waste and that generated by contractors.   


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BIODIVERSITY

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We are committed to protecting dry tropical forest in Colombia’s Caribbean region by using strategies to create new protected areas and by reinforcing existing ones and carrying out sustainable production projects that relieve the pressure on resources obtained from this important ecosystem.   

We have achieved the following results:

Creation of protected areas in the Civil Society Reserve near to and in connection with the Los Colorados Flora and Fauna Sanctuary: 108.91 hectares.

This has included carrying out the water supply implementation project on the La Esperanza, Nuevo Méjico, Media Luna and Raicero properties in San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolívar, consisting of adapting 35 pools, thereby benefiting 39 families directly and a further 15 indirectly. 19 families also received materials for collecting rainwater and storing water in the home on their property, principally in the form of tanks or by building or adapting ponds, with zinc sheets for the roof and collection channels.          

Purchase of private properties within the protected area in order to contribute to draining them and then handing them over to the Los Colorados Flora and Fauna Sanctuary: 117.63 hectares.

Restoration of areas using native species on the Tití Project Foundation premises: 11.8 hectares.

We planted 9,197 trees in 2020, to offset those affected by the various gas pipeline construction and maintenance activities. 4,444 of these were planted on 4 hectares of land, to create habitats for vascular and non-vascular epiphyte species on the La Pastora property, which belongs to the San Antonio Indigenous Community in Sincelejo, Sucre.

With a view to contributing to knowledge about diversity and based on the offsetting actions we have been taking, we highlight the following:

We contributed content to the book entitled ‘Socio-ecosystemic Connectivities in the Los Colorados Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, which was published by Parques Nacionales, USAID, and the Environmental Heritage Foundation. 

We added to the national open biodiversity data network (SIN-Colombia) the recording of 58,116 fauna and flora individuals, representing 964 species, that were identified in Bolívar, Sucre, Córdoba and Atlántico provinces.



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We respect biodiversity and we are committed to conserving it. We apply the mitigation hierarchy in the following way:  



​We work in conjunction with the National Entrepreneurs Association (ANDI), Environmental Heritage, the Dry Ecosystems of Colombia Foundation and the Tití Foundation to protect ecosystems in our area of influence.​

Temporary impacts associated with habitat transformation have occurred in the course of our activities, due to intervention in ecosystems, the felling of trees during gas pipeline construction work, maintenance activities, or the presence of infrastructure such as stations and the regasification plant. Native species are affected, and we try to reverse this by offsetting and by replanting the areas in question.  
​For purposes of carrying out projects in Colombia that seek to increase the number of hectares protected under the country’s national system, we have forged alliances with Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN) and FAO, this latter an entity that we have signed a memorandum of understanding with for joining forces to protect the tropical dry forest ecosystem. We are party to the Biodiversity and Development Strategy for the Caribbean Region of Colombia, as are Parques Nacionales Naturales and the National Entrepreneurs Association (ANDI), which latter leads the initiative, and also to the Von Humboldt Institute for Biological Resources Research, USAID - Natural Riches Program and FAO - Biocaribe Program. 


Our affiliated company GdO is linked to the Más Bosques BanCO2 initiative, together with the Valle del Cauca Regional Autonomous Corporation (CVC), which guarantees conservation in areas around the towns of Tuluá, Sevilla, Ginebra and Dagua in Valle del Cauca province. And SPEC planted 20 hectares of red mangrove at the mouth of the Matunilla channel, in Bolivar province.​



Area restoration and other actions in 2020

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Relocation of species of epiphyte, in order to conserve the genetic variability of vascular species on the La Pastora property (in Sucre province), and of marmosets (civil society reserve being created in Bolívar province, and Loma Fresca, in Bolívar province). Maintenance of these species that were transferred from the Paiva-Caracolí, Jobo-Majagua and Mamonal-Paiva gas pipeline projects is carried out in all these places.  

Creation of a habitat for vascular and non-vascular epiphyte species: 13,799 trees were planted in 2019 and 2020 on 10 hectares of land.

Monitoring was carried out in 2020 of the cotton-top marmoset species in the Tití DMI and in the area of influence of the Paiva-Caracolí gas pipeline. 

The most relevant species include: clover (Platymiscium pinnatum), guaiacum (Bulnesia arborea), mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), ebony (Caesalpinia ébano), cocuelo blanco (Lecythis tuyrana), cedar (Cedrela odorata), and 22 species of epiphyte (11 in the minor concern endangered category). 

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Around 40 endangered species have been identified, and specific environmental management measures have been implemented for them, such as:


 

Owned, rented or administered operation centers located in or next to protected areas or areas of great value because of their diversity outside protected areas.




OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT

Our affiliated companies in Colombia have carbon footprint certification, and Quavii, in Peru, is in the inventory implementation phase for obtaining such certification. We consolidate the companies that we control.  ​

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