We have a fundamental responsibility to work with host countries in helping to manage these challenges in a way that reduces risks and maximises value creation both for the host countries and for our shareholders.
This is not only an ethical imperative but also necessary to ensure long-term profitability and successful execution in complex environments.
We are therefore committed to contributing to sustainable development on the basis of our core activities in the countries in which we work through various means.
- Making decisions based on how they affect our interests and those of the societies around us. We identify needs, expectations, development opportunities and mitigating actions based on thoroughgoing processes of stakeholder dialogue and risk and impact assessments.
- Ensuring transparency, combating corruption, and respecting human rights and labour standards. We pursue openness and fight corruption by publishing our revenues and investments as well as the taxes we pay. We respect human rights and labour standards by ensuring that these are well protected both in our corporate policies and procedures and in our operations.
- Generating positive spin-offs from our core activities to help meet the aspirations of the societies in which we operate. Our policy is to create local content wherever we have an active presence. We are proactive in recruiting locally, promoting and developing local sourcing, and supporting the build-up of skills in the local community and among our suppliers and contractors in order to create lasting capacity.
