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Our environmental impact

Biodiversity and ecosystems

Air and soil pollution

Principle: We strive to go beyond 'avoiding' or 'minimising' our impacts and find ways to 'restore' and 'enhance' biodiversity and ecosystems.

Principle: We monitor and control emissions of pollutants from our generation and pellet production activities. We take measures to prevent, monitor, and remediate spills that could lead to soil contamination.

Nature, including biodiversity and ecosystems plays a foundational role in maintaining the health, productivity, and stability of the many natural systems, and societies cannot survive, let alone thrive, without the natural world's ecosystem services. However, scientists' assessment of nature is bleak and the call to action to safeguard the natural world urgent: wildlife populations have declined 73% in the past 50 years according to the WWF.

At Drax, being “nature positive” means going beyond avoiding or minimising our impacts. We seek to preserve and restore biodiversity and ecosystems in the areas we operate, and the regions from which we source.

This is subject to UK, US and Canadian laws. Compliance is overseen internally by our Operational and HSE teams and externally by the local regulatory agencies.

Our operations are required to comply with the laws and regulations on emissions and substances to protect human health and the environment.

What you need to do:

• Be aware of and comply with the relevant regulations. Preventative measures should be in place to prevent pollution, and in the event of an incident, effective remediation undertaken promptly
• Always look for ways to continuously improve our performance, including learning from any near miss events

What you need to do:

• Recognise the importance of nature in your business activities
• Minimise impacts on nature and look for ways to contribute to nature restoration and for opportunities to partner with stakeholders working on nature conservation