Repsol YPF continues developing efforts to improve its procedures and practices in corporative responsibility.
Since 2006 Repsol YPF has been listed on the select sustainability indexes DJSI World (Dow Jones Sustainability Index World) and the European DJSI STOXX (Dow Jones Sustainability Index STOXX).
www.sustainability-indexes.com
The company is also part of the FTSE4Good Index which, along with the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, is one of the most prestigious corporate responsibility indexes in the world. In 2008 was launched FTSE4Good Ibex of which Repsol YPF comprises.
www.ftse.com/Indices/FTSE4Good_Index_Series
Repsol YPF is listed on the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI), an initiative promoted by the Carbon Disclosure Project which includes some of the main institutional investors in the world. In 2007, for the second year running, Repsol YPF was awarded the highest sector rating for its approach and management of climate change.
www.cdproject.net
The company was recognised by the Women's Institute of the Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs for its collaboration in promoting gender equality as part of the Institute's Optima Programme.
www.tt.mtas.es/optima/contenido/index.html
In 2003 Repsol YPF joined the United Nations Global Compact, an initiative which encourages companies to include among their strategies and operations ten principles relating to human rights, employment conditions, the environment and combating corruption. The company also forms part of the Global Compact’s local networks in Spain (ASEPAM), Argentina (the Argentinean Global Compact Promotion Group) and Bolivia.
www.unglobalcompact.org
www.pactomundial.org
www.pactoglobal.org.ar
Repsol YPF is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a body that brings together over 180 international companies to promote business leadership and progress towards sustainable development through corporate responsibility. The company also forms part of the Council’s Spanish regional network through the Fundación Entorno – BCSD
www.wbcsd.org
www.fundacionentorno.org
The company is a founding member of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which aims to encourage transparency among companies within the extraction sector and the governments of host countries, with the purpose of reducing the poverty and promoting the socioeconomic development of the countries with extractive resources.
www.eitransparency.org
Repsol YPF is a partner in Proteus, an initiative implemented in 2002 by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Its mission is to create a simple, advanced and decentralised system for storing, managing and reporting on protected areas. The initiative is based on best practices and allows for simple integration of other sources of information and user opinions.
proteus.unep-wcmc.org
Repsol YPF is a member of the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), an organisation created in 1974 to develop and promote efficient, practical and financially and socially acceptable solutions to the environmental and social issues surrounding the oil industry. The company actively participates in this Association's various working groups.
www.ipieca.org
The company is part of the Regional Association of Oil and Natural Gas Companies in Latin America and the Caribbean (ARPEL), where ideas, experience and knowledge are exchanged. The Association is made up of 25 companies from the natural gas and oil distribution sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the company is actively involved in its various working groups.
www.arpel.org
Repsol YPF is a founding member of the Corporate Reputation Forum, created in 2002 to analyse and promote corporate reputation trends, tools and models as part of business management. This forum for exchange is a reference point for development in this field and was presided over by Repsol YPF in 2007. This year, the most significant project has been the communication campaign for the promotion of the Millennium Development Goals, 2015: Un mundo mejor para Joana.
www.reputacioncorporativa.org
www.2015unmundomejorparajoana.com
Repsol YPF forms part of the safety, environmental, quality and standards committees of the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP), actively participating in the Association’s various working groups.
www.ogp.org.uk
Last updated: 14 May 2008