CONTRIBUTION to UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS LUKOIL’S Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 1
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CONTRIBUTION TO UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS LUKOIL’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 1 CONTENTS 2 4 6 8 About Sustainable Sustainable Development Goal 4. Sustainable Development Goal 5. Sustainable Development Goal 6. Development Goals Quality education Gender equality Clean water and sanitation 10 12 14 16 Sustainable Development Goal 8. Sustainable Development Goal 9. Sustainable Development Goal 12. Sustainable Development Goal 7. Decent work and economic Industry, innovation Responsible consumption Affordable and clean energy growth and infrastructure and production 18 20 22 24 Sustainable Development Goal 13. Sustainable Development Goal 14. Sustainable Development Goal 15. Sustainable Development Goal 17. Climate action Life below water Life on land Partnership for the Goals 2 LUKOIL’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 3 Dear friends, The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the UN in 2015, ABOUT SUSTAINABLE is a sort of navigator for modern business. The document identifies the most pressing challenges associated with changes in the technological and economic DEVELOPMENT GOALS landscape, as well as mechanisms aimed at countering negative trends and forming scenarios for the future. Our approach to sustainable development LUKOIL supports this strategic platform and aims at making its contribution to is based on the alignment of the Company’s the achievement of the UN goals by integrating them in corporate planning and interests and plans with the UN basic performance measurement practices. In 2018 alone, the Company invested more principles, universal values, global trends than RUB 200 billion in programs and projects aimed at solving issues in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. and national and regional development priorities. Taking into account the strategic LUKOIL has always been and remains a reliable and responsible supplier of benchmarks of LUKOIL Group, we identified energy resources needed by society. For this purpose, the Company actively 11 UN Sustainable Development Goals and develops modern technologies, disseminates the best corporate practices, 15 targets as priorities. These goals and conducts a dialog with the interested parties. We intend to continue to provide people with energy, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals and targets are harmoniously combined with principles. the operational programs implemented by LUKOIL Group’s production facilities. For this This booklet provides a brief overview of our activities and the results that we reason, we believe that their implementation have achieved for each of the UN Global Goals owing to the coordinated work of is important to determine LUKOIL Group’s LUKOIL’s professional teams. contribution to the achievement of the UN President of PJSC LUKOIL global Sustainable Development Goals. Vagit Alekperov 4 LUKOIL’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 5 PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES Educational space, new skills Scholarships and grants and forms of education Since 2000 we have been supporting high- We support universities and potential students and teachers of specialized secondary education institutions universities by providing personalized scholarships of the oil and gas sector, and grants. Scholarships are also awarded to developing their scientific graduates of sponsored orphanages: for them potential and resource base: it is almost the only opportunity to get higher or research centers, laboratories secondary specialized education. and departments were opened, equipment was purchased, Employee training and development programs new textbooks were published. Corporate face-to-face and distance learning For example, LUKOIL assisted programs provide LUKOIL employees with in creating the Department of opportunities to continue their education, expand Renewable Energy Sources at the range of their competencies, and remain in the I.M. Gubkin Russian State demand in the labor market. We value employees University of Oil and Gas. with the potential for innovation, and we hold scientific and practical conferences and contests that help identify leaders. THIS WAY, OUR ACTIVITIES RESULT CONTRIBUTE TO THE FOLLOWING TARGET UNDER GOAL 4: WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? ✓ LUKOIL cooperates on Quality education and lifelong learning Target 4.4. By 2030, substantially a long-term basis with increase the number of youth and opportunities are essential for the economic According to projections 14 universities in Russia. adults who have relevant skills, and social development of countries. Thanks to by experts, 34 industries education, people have opportunities for self- will undergo significant ✓ More than 100 training including technical and vocational realization and achievement of a higher level of changes: new professions programs are available for skills, for employment, decent jobs, and well-being, better adapt to external changes. will arise and old ones will LUKOIL employees. entrepreneurship. disappear. The average Education helps overcome barriers to achieve ✓ Environmental education the Sustainable Development Goals by expanding person will change jobs an average of 12 times during projects are supported every knowledge and competencies, changing social his or her career. year as part of the Social and attitudes and behaviors in people’s professional Cultural Projects Competition and personal lives. in the Environment category. OUR POSITION By supporting schools and universities, additional employment and strengthening education programs for children and young human potential in the regions people, including children with disabilities and where LUKOIL’s organizations orphans, we are laying the foundation for decent operate. 6 LUKOIL’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 7 PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES Social support Support for women entrepreneurs Support to working women in We have been supporting the More than Buying fulfilling family responsibilities, project (Russia) for more than 10 years. This is including in the areas of a unique joint initiative between LUKOIL and education and early childhood the Foundation for Regional Social Programmes care, is an effective factor in OUR FUTURE. Its purpose is to support social promoting gender equality. As entrepreneurs, who are given the opportunity to part of the social partnership, sell their products at LUKOIL filling stations. Most funds are allocated for participants are women from various regions of the provision of social benefits Russia. and guarantees, integrating the available public services. More than Buying project is the widest network LUKOIL grants parents additional for sale of social entrepreneurs’ goods in Russia. days of leave, pays an allowance to the mother or father who is on leave to care for a child up to 3 years, organizes recreational activities for children. THIS WAY, OUR ACTIVITIES RESULT CONTRIBUTE TO THE FOLLOWING TARGET UNDER GOAL 5: WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? ✓ The share of women in Target 5.5. Ensure women’s full and In the era of digital technologies, the value the Company’s staff is about effective participation and equal of human capital is increasing, so it is important 143 countries have 40%; this personnel opportunities for leadership at all levels of to create conditions for the effective realization included in their structure has remained decision-making in political, economic and of opportunities for both women and men. This constitutions provisions on stable over the past 10 years public life. equal rights for women and contributes to economic growth and a fuller (2009–2018). realization of human rights, reduction men. ✓ The share of women in of discrimination, and development of a culture of gender social relations in society. management positions is about 40%. OUR POSITION We share ILO standards related to ensuring Working in countries with decent and productive work for women and men different cultural and social in conditions of equality of opportunity, social traditions, we adopt a unified guarantees, and respect for human dignity. We approach that excludes provide career development opportunities for discrimination in the area of both men and women, and we respect employees’ employment, training and social desire to achieve family and work balance. support. 8 LUKOIL’s contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 9 PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES Environmental Safety Social and Cultural Projects Competition Program, Clean Water Sub- program “Environment” is one of the categories of the Social and Cultural Projects Competition annually held LUKOIL invested heavily by LUKOIL production facilities in Russia. Funding in the construction and is granted to projects of local environmental and reconstruction of water municipal organizations aimed, among other treatment systems and things, at the rehabilitation of water bodies. purification facilities, which ensured optimal use of fresh Charity projects in low-water countries water and reliable wastewater LUKOIL operates in countries with hot climates treatment. A global program which experience a deficit of water: Iraq, Tajikistan, for reconstruction of treatment Egypt and Kazakhstan. In order to help the local facilities at all production population, our organizations arrange for supply facilities of the Company was of drinking water to children’s and medical implemented. institutions. THIS WAY, OUR ACTIVITIES WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? RESULT CONTRIBUTE TO THE FOLLOWING TWO TARGETS UNDER GOAL 6: Water is the basis of life and