Environmental
protection

We are constantly expanding renewable energy sources, improving production efficiency, implementing energy efficiency programmes, and reducing the negative impact on the environment and climate. The Group announced its intention to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050 and to reduce GHG emissions by at least 35% by 2030 (Scopes 1 and 2 vs the 2018 baseline).

Ensuring energy efficiency is one of the Company's strategic goals. En+ Group implements various energy efficiency measures that reduce the amount of greenhouse gases from its production activities, as well as energy and process fuel costs. We intensively improve the ways to generate electricity, optimise power generation, and make our aluminium production more efficient to address our carbon footprint and other issues related to the environment and climate change.

En+ Group recognises that its operations have an impact on air quality, hence strives to minimise and mitigate its atmospheric emissions by implementing the following initiatives and measures.

In line with its responsible approach to the issues of air quality in the regions of operation, En+ Group has been involved in the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan as part of the Ecology national project and the Clean Air federal programme since 2018. The programme is aimed at minimising total emissions in Russia’s 12 industrial centres and, as a result, achieving at least a 20% emission volume reduction by 2024 relative to the 2017 base year in these cities.

Since one of the main environmental goals of En+ Group is to minimise its negative impacts on water resources, En+ Group is taking the following steps to ensure sustainable water management:

·         water quality monitoring

·         increasing the water recycling

·         increasing the quantity and quality of wastewater treatment processes

·         decreasing the volume of fresh water used in operations

·         decreasing the volume of wastewater produced and the concentration of hazardous substances contained therein.

En+ Group is striving to mitigate its impact of waste generation and to enhance waste management by taking the following measures:

•             conducting the R&D activities on waste recycling and implementing the results

•             implementing the advanced disposal facilities to ensure the long-term and reliable storage and/or burial

•             raising the awareness about waste management throughout the Group

•             reducing the amount of bauxite and nepheline residue generated by the Metals segment and ash and slag waste generated by the Power segment.

En+ Group operates in line with approved the rehabilitation plans that consider potential risks applicable to a specific facility, the amount of work and resources required.

The works include the following aspects:

·         reclamation of the disturbed terrain and soil upon the completion of open-cut mining

·         restoration of the waste disposal facilities, such as ash dumps and landfills

·         recultivation of the contaminated lands and disturbed terrain.

With operations across Siberia and alongside the Angara and Yenisei Rivers – unique natural regions with vast biological resources, En+ Group recognises biodiversity preservation as a core topic in its sustainable development approach. In order to maintain a high level of environmental management in the field of biodiversity in 2021, En+ Group has developed and endorsed an general and highly specialised policy for the conservation of biological diversity. The Biodiversity Policy is binding both for the Metals and Power segments and emphasises the key principles and attitudes towards biodiversity, and describes Group’s approach managing biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services.