Biodiversity
Petrobras’ commitments to biodiversity are featured in its key corporate documents and are detailed in more specific materials, such as the HSE policy, guidelines and standards. The Excellence in Health, Safety and Environment Strategic Project, created to ensure the achievement of international standards of excellence in the management of HSE issues associated with the company’s business, emphasizes biodiversity-related initiatives: mapping of protected, sensitive and vulnerable areas; implementation of a system to assess impacts on biodiversity; and the diagnosis and recovery plan for areas degraded by Petrobras’ operations. Each initiative has associated actions and targets to be developed and achieved by 2015.
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2011 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Technical working groups with the participation of internal experts were created to address specific topics. Among the results attained by the work of these groups in 2011, the limelight is on the setting of parameters and criteria for collecting data on protected, sensitive and vulnerable areas; the revision of the new venture management standard, with the inclusion of criteria related to biodiversity in each phase of planning for these projects; and the definition of criteria for the classification of accidents with impact on the environment caused by chemical spills. Information systematization, a major challenge for biodiversity management, led the company to develop the GeoPortal HSEE