Our standards and policies
Selected commitments, policies and frameworks
We have a number of codes, policies and assurance processes that define how we aim to operate in socially and environmentally responsible ways. These include:
- Shell General Business Principles
- Shell Code of Conduct
- Shell Ethics and Compliance Manual
- Shell Code of Ethics for Executive Directors and Senior Financial Officers
- Shell Supplier Principles
- Shell Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Social Performance Commitment and Policy
- Shell Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Social Performance Control Framework
- Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Social Performance assurance
- Shell’s human rights approach
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
- Shell’s ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business
- Environmental framework
- Biodiversity commitments
- Purchasing Policy Statement: Sustainable Sourcing of Biocomponents
- Corporate political engagement (PDF)
- Shell’s principles for producing tight/shale oil and gas
- We also support a number of external voluntary codes.
Reporting standards and frameworks
Our reporting is informed by a number of standards such as the Ipieca Sustainability Reporting Guidance and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). In addition, we map our disclosures against the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Standard, the World Economic Forum’s Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics (core) and are a founding member of and a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact. In our Annual Report, we set out our climate-related financial disclosures consistent with all of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures’ Recommendations and Recommended Disclosures. Guidance we take into account includes:
