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Sustainability at GAIL

Sustainability at Gail

Sustainability is embedded into our business strategy, driving our evolution into an integrated energy company and driving long-term value creation while ensuring positive environmental and social impact. Our evolving operations focus on transparent supply chains, responsible sourcing, and stakeholder-driven materiality assessments to align with global ESG standards.

Climate Action & Net Zero Roadmap

Aligned with India’s Net Zero vision, GAIL targets:

  • 100% reduction in Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2035
  • 35% reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2040

A comprehensive decarbonization roadmap, supported by innovation, clean energy adoption, and operational efficiency, drives this transition — reinforcing GAIL’s leadership in building a sustainable energy future.

Sustainability Policy

Our Sustainability Policy aligns with our Net Zero vision, focusing on reducing Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions, while addressing broader sustainability priorities. This policy serves as a comprehensive framework for setting measurable targets, performance monitoring, impact evaluation, and ensuring compliance with national regulations and global sustainability standards, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

GAIL Sustainability Development Policy:https://www.gailonline.com/SBPolicy.html.

Sustainability Governance

At GAIL, we believe that strong governance structure, formed on the pillars of integrity, ethics, respect, safety, innovation and stakeholder’s welfare enables us to grow in a sustainable manner and fulfil our mission of “enhancing quality of life through green energy and beyond.” Our strong governance structure along with our sustainability policy enable us integrating environmental and social accountability into the core of our growth strategy.

GAIL has a three-member Sustainable Development Committee (SDC) on its Board of Directors. As of 31st March 2022, the committee, is chaired by the GAIL’s Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) and comprises of Director (Projects), Director (Business Development), as members. The role of committee includes deliberation on the organization’s sustainability agenda as well as examines the company’s climate change strategy, emergency response on strategy and HSE performance. The SDC also guide us on how to implement sustainability strategy across the business, manage goal setting, reporting processes, strengthen relations with external stakeholders and ensure the overall accountability across the organization. Our sustainability governance aims to ensure group’s commitments to different stakeholder groups, including customers, consumers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, decision- makers and representatives of the community. The SDC met four times in FY 2021-22. The SDC is informed by the Sustainable Development Steering Committee (SDSC), which backs up the Sustainability Policy directives and is responsible for carrying out the company’s sustainability goals as well as risk and performance management.

Sustainable Development Steering Committee

At GAIL, the Sustainable Development Steering Committee (SDSC), is a multidisciplinary committee comprises of the departmental heads (HoDs) of multiple departments including HoDs of C&P, HR, SD, F&A, Risk, CSR, CC, CST, Mktg-PC, Mktg-Gas and HSE. The SDSC is tasked with assisting the Sustainable Development Committee (SDC) in fulfilling its responsibilities, which include forming the strategy, operational model and reporting frameworks concerning sustainability and climate change.

The committee also ensures compliance with the policy through direct supervision of all sustainability initiatives and responsible for executing the company’s sustainability goals as well as risk and performance management. We are extremely concerned about the environmental impact of our operations and managing the same take precedence. Efforts are constantly made to reduce or neutralize the impact of greenhouse gases and to achieve zero waste disposal.

Various units at the organization are actively assessing the risk posed by climate change. We have separate groups that coordinate risk management throughout the firm. While HSE is coordinating for all risks pertaining to environmental and safety issues, the CSR group is coordinating for all risks pertaining to social impact related issues. These groups ensure that all existing and anticipated environmental, economic and social risks are addressed. The risks are recognized, evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively, analysed and effectively managed by implementing mitigation plans.

Sustainability Activities

Strategic Partnerships & Research Collaborations

Recognizing the importance of innovation and collaboration, GAIL has forged key partnerships to accelerate its decarbonization efforts:

  • MoU with IIT Bombay (CoEOGE) for a study on Petrochemical & Refinery Decarbonization, focusing on Technology Evaluation & Life Cycle Assessment.
  • CCUS Sectoral Study with FIPI to explore advanced carbon management solutions.

Renewable & Alternative Energy Investments

  • CBG Expansion: Partnering with TruAlt Bioenergy Limited to establish 10 CBG
  • MSW-to-Energy: EoI for Joint Venture partners to develop CBG plants from municipal waste.

Monitoring of Sustainability Projects:

GAIL enhances sustainability through real-time data analytics and global assessment frameworks, ensuring resource efficiency and ESG excellence.

Advanced Sustainability Dashboards

  • Live Performance Tracking of Significant Energy Users (SEUs) like Steam Turbines, Compressors, Gas Crackers, and Boilers for efficiency optimization.
  • Sustainability Performance Monitoring via e-Sustainability & BRSR Modules, tracking energy, water, and waste management KPIs.

GreenCo Assessment & Sustainable Operations

  • GreenCo Certification evaluates energy efficiency, GHG reduction, and circular economy initiatives across operations.
  • Stakeholder Training & Best Practices adoption to enhance sustainability leadership.

GAIL’s data-driven approach ensures a low-carbon, resource-efficient, and sustainable future

Performance Highlight

Linkages with Sustainability Reporting

Link: Sustainability Report 2023-24 https://www.gailonline.com/SBReports.html

Monitoring of Sustainability Projects

Dashboards

Understanding the importance of real-time monitoring for efficient management of resources, we have developed number of dashboards using our in-house capabilities. These dashboards enable us to conduct real- time monitoring of various significant energy users (SEUs), such as Gas Turbines, Heavy Duty Steam Turbines, Centrifugal Compressors, Gas Cracking Furnaces, Boilers, Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs), other process heaters, Extruder units.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Community Member

Being a founding member of GRI South Asia Consortium since 2013, GAIL has been engaging with the GRI in various aspects to make its sustainability reporting practices more relevant and transparent.

GreenCo Assessment of the sites

As part of our efforts to reduce our energy consumption, we are constantly implementing various energy efficiency initiatives across our sites. To further streamline these efforts, GAIL has commenced the process of implementing the GreenCo Rating across its several sites.

GreenCo Rating implementation gives firms with leadership and direction on how to make their products, services and processes more environmentally friendly by evaluating the enterprises on the environmental friendliness of their activities using a life cycle approach. During FY 2021-22, GAIL’s Pata plant achieved the distinction of becoming the first GAIL unit to be awarded the “GreenCo Gold” rating by CII Sohrabji Green Business Centre. Further, GAIL Gandhar unit and Vizag-Secunderabad LPG Pipeline (VSPL) received the “GreenCo Silver” rating.