Environmental priorities
The Company’s environmental priorities include:
• Gradually reducing pollutant emissions and discharges, and expanding the scope and volume of waste recycling, improving waste management;
• Ensuring sustainable use of natural resources;
• Reconfiguring production capacities, upgrading the Group’s operations with new cutting-edge equipment, introducing the best available technologies;
• Conserving biodiversity across its footprint;
• Reflecting climate change aspects in long-term business plans;
• Organizing sea freighting in compliance with the national regulations and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships;
• Switching the environmental management system (EMS) to a risk-oriented approach to environmental management in compliance with ISO 14001:2015.
Key steps to minimizing environmental impact:
For the purpose of preserving the fragile Arctic ecosystem, the Company’s long-term strategy provides for production facility upgrades using the best available technologies to achieve the required environmental performance targets, improving energy efficiency, and implementing measures encouraging reduced and sustainable use of natural resources. Read more at https://www.nornickel.com/sustainability/environment/
