Accidental releases
Chevron’s environment strategy includes preventing and mitigating the consequences of accidental releases.
Environmental care
Helping protect the
environment.
Chevron’s environmental approach covers responsible design, development, operations and retirement of assets.
01 Our approach
Responsible design.
Environmental risk management.
Chevron says it helps protect the environment by stewarding water use, integrating biodiversity into decision-making, reducing waste and managing air emissions.
Chevron’s Operational Excellence Management System and Environment Risk Management Process are used to identify, assess, mitigate and manage environmental risks across the lifecycle of an asset.
OEMSoperational excellence management system
ERMPenvironment risk management process
2021year ERMP was deployed
02 Environmental priorities
Water stewardship
Chevron focuses on efficient and responsible water use, reuse, recycling and conservation.
Biodiversity
Chevron works with communities, agencies, industry groups, academia and conservation organizations to help protect and enhance biodiversity.
Air and waste
Chevron’s stated priorities include managing air emissions, waste and wastewater and conserving energy.
Environment risk management
Managing risk across the asset lifecycle.
Chevron describes ERMP as a fit-for-purpose framework for projects and ongoing operations. It is designed to consider environmental risks, including community health and social risks, and to help strengthen safeguards and apply lessons learned.
Explore Chevron’s approach ↗03 Mitigation hierarchy
01
Avoid
Avoid potential biodiversity impacts where possible.
02
Reduce
Reduce potential impacts when avoidance is not possible.
03
Restore
Restore affected environments as part of the mitigation hierarchy.
04
Offset
Offset potential residual impacts where appropriate.
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