Our standards and policies
Selected policies, standards and frameworks
We have a number of codes, policies, standards and frameworks 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 Performance Framework
- Shell Supplier Principles
- Shell Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Social Performance Commitment and Policy
- Shell Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Social Performance Control Framework (to be replaced by the Safety, Environment and Asset Management (SEAM) Standards from mid-2024)
- Health, Safety, Security, Environment & Social Performance assurance
- Shell’s Approach to Human Rights
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
- Shell’s ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business
- Purchasing Policy Statement: Sustainable Sourcing of Biocomponents
- Corporate Political Engagement
- 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. In addition, we map our disclosures against the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Standard 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. Organisations whose guidance we take into account include:
