IUCN-Shell collaborative partnership agreement
Current activities
- Secondments between Shell and IUCN
- Participation in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Oil & Gas Sector Supplement
- Developing cross-sector industry standards for sustainable development in the Arctic
- Arctic regional management approaches project (pdf summary)
- Decommissioning oil & gas platforms in the North Sea (summary)
- Improving the understanding and use of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
- Pilot project on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) (pdf summary)
Completed activities
- Scoping project on removing barriers to the implementation of more sustainable biofuels
- Shell Biodiversity Action Plan review
- Pilot project exploring the feasibility of an IUCN Business Academy for Conservation
Post-pilot activities:
Shell-IUCN Biofuels Agreement
- Harmonizing sustainability standards for biofuels
- Developing sustainability standards for biofuels
- Mitigating against the risk of indirect land-use change (iLUC)
- Developing a guiding process for site selection and planning
- Incorporating sustainability issues in a biofuels joint venture
