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Environment and Social Responsibility
Environmental Protection
Events in the Year
of Ecological Culture
were held in more
than 3,500 cities,
towns and settlements
in the regions where
Gazprom Group
operates, both in
Russia and abroad.
Gazprom is committed to sustainable development, which is inseparable from care about
the environment. The Company has built an environmental management system compliant
with ISO 14001:2004.
Responsibility for environmental protection is essential for a continued and successful business
growth, and a key element of Gazprom Group’s business strategy. Being a major user of natural
resources in Russia, Gazprom makes every effort to ensure strict compliance with Russian and
international environmental protection laws, and goes beyond that by taking voluntary environmental
commitments.
2014 was the Year of Ecological Culture at OAO Gazprom, launched to show the Group’s
commitment to sustainable development and support the Year of Culture in Russia.
56 of the Group’s subsidiaries took part in the events held as part of the Year of Ecological Culture.
More than 20,000 events were held, including 428 events involving NGOs. The total number
of participants reached 362,700 persons.
Selected results of OAO Gazprom’s Year of Ecological Culture
— 62,000+ of Gazprom Group’s employees received environmental training.
— 974 tours and press tours of the Group’s facilities held for members of the mass media, students and pupils.
— 641 environmental contests held for children and young people.
In regions:
— 11,600 ha of land cleared of rubbish and improved;
— 11,700 tonnes of rubbish collected and removed;
— 484 water bodies rehabilitated;
— 170,000+ trees and shrubs, and 77,000+ flower-beds and flower gardens planted;
— 42 specially protected natural areas of federal or regional significance provided with support.
Environmental management system
OAO Gazprom’s Environmental Policy was approved by the Board of Directors in October 2011
and recommended for adoption to Gazprom Group’s companies. The implementation of the
Environmental Policy is managed by OAO Gazprom’s Coordinating Committee for Environmental
Protection and Energy Efficiency, exercising control over, and providing integrated assessment
of, the Company’s environmental activities.
The Environmental Management System (EMS) is a key tool to implement OAO Gazprom’s
Environmental Policy, integrating environmental protection management bodies of the parent
company and 36 wholly-owned subsidiaries that are engaged in exploration, production, transportation,
storage and processing of hydrocarbons are involved in investment activities to develop
the Unified Gas Supply System.
OAO Gazprom’s EMS was certified to ISO 14001:2004 in 2011. A recertification audit completed
in October 2014 by DNV GL, a global independent certification body, confirmed the system’s
compliance with the standard’s requirements.
New Corporate Environmental Targets were set for 2014 to 2016 under OAO Gazprom’s EMS.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014