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This excerpt taken from the BP 20-F filed Mar 4, 2008. Our
operations and the environment During 2007, we continued to use environmental management systems to seek improvements on a wide range of environmental issues. All our major sites, except one, are certified to the ISO 14001 international environmental management system standard. The Texas City refinery, after completing planned work to strengthen its environmental management systems, is planning to seek recertification in early 2009. Following its approval in November 2006, we began the implementation of the group practice called the Environmental Requirements for New Projects (ERNP). This practice is a full life-cycle environmental assessment process. It requires all new projects to undertake screening to determine the potential environmental sensitivities associated with the proposed projects. The highest level of environmental sensitivity in a new project requires more rigorous specific environmental management activities. By the end of 2007, more than 100 projects had begun implementation of ERNP including those in our alternative energy, upstream and downstream businesses. Since 2001, we have been focusing on measuring and improving the carbon intensity of our operations. After six years, we estimate that our operations have delivered some 7 million tones (Mte) of GHG reductions. Our 2007 operational GHG emissions were 63.5Mte of CO2 equivalent on a direct equity basis, nearly 1Mte lower than the reported figure of 64.4Mte in 2006. Many of our EU assets have been subject to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) since its launch in January 2005. The number of installations actively participating in the scheme increased at the end of 2007 when a temporary exclusion of exploration and production assets expired. After inclusion of these assets, around one-fifth of our reported 2007 global GHG emissions are now covered by the scheme. In 2007, no new decisions were taken by BP to explore or develop in World Conservation Union (IUCN) category I-IV areas. We constantly try to limit the environmental impact of our operations by seeking to use natural resources responsibly and reducing waste and emissions.
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