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Our material topics
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Our material topics
Our material topics
Our material topics
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Climate action and security of supply
Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges and one of our company’s most material issues.
Urgent, concerted action worldwide will be necessary to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees centigrade. It’s a big challenge for an energy company like us. The energy industry, which is among the biggest carbon emitters, will need to play an important role in the transition to a carbon neutral future.
Greenhouse gas emissions
Our decarbonization strategy: Empower Energy Evolution. In late January 2020, we announced our commitment to exit coal-fired power generation in Germany by 2038 at the latest. We took this big step further in March by committing to make our power generation portfolio in Europe carbon neutral by 2035. Both bold commitments are part of a fundamental strategic reorientation focusing on a secure and climate- friendlier energy supply.
21
% reduction in Scope 1 CO2
In 2019, our direct carbon emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels for power and heat generation (operational control approach) fell by 21% to 47 million metric tons (2018: 59.5 million metric tons).
474
g CO2/kWh carbon intensity in 2019
We set a Group-wide annual average carbon intensity threshold to remain below 500 grams of carbon dioxide per kWh for the period 2018 to 2020.
Innovations for a low-carbon future
Innovation and cutting-edge technologies are crucial to our ability to Empower Energy Evolution. They make our existing businesses more efficient, competitive, and sustainable. Uniper develops innovative, scalable business models in a variety of areas. Some of them – like a flexible power supply, utility-scale batteries, and other new storage technologies – demonstrably enhance the energy system’s ability to add more renewable energy sources while maintaining system stability. Although crucial to the success of the energy transition, they’re incremental in nature: they’ll help the energy transition do what it’s already doing even better. Other technologies like green hydrogen and carbon recycling have the potential to be truly game-changing. Because they can do something special: go a long way towards making emission- heavy but hard-to-decarbonize industries – particularly chemicals, and air, maritime, and heavy-road transport – much cleaner.
Our innovation strategy reflects the three pivotal trends that are transforming the energy industry: decarbonization, the decentralization of energy generation and supply, and digitalization.
12
Decarbonization projects are already underway
We’ve set a target of
conducting,
by 2022, at least 20 projects, the
main aim of which include decarbonization.
Our generation fleet for a secure energy supply
A secure and reliable supply of energy is essential for the functioning of society and a competitive economy. Uniper’s priority is to provide a secure, affordable, and reliable supply of power, gas, and heat to its customers, while simultaneously making this energy progressively climate-friendlier.
34.3
GW
We own and operate 34.3 GW of generating capacity in Europe and Russia. This fleet is highly efficient, flexible, and diversified.
Our generation fleet’s reliability
79.1%
Average asset availability
Uniper’s key performance indicator for supply reliability is average asset availability. Our power generation fleets in Europe and Russia had an average asset availability of 79.1% in 2019, which was roughly unchanged from 2018.
Focus areas

Climate action and security of supply
Greenhouse gas emissions and a secure and reliable energy supply are Uniper's most material topics. Find out how we are decarbonizing our energy system whilst ensuring that we can provide security of supply.
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Our people
We care about our people and that's why we're committed to maintaining the highest of health and safety standards. We have no tolerance for discrimination and promote inclusion across our workforce.
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Environmental Protection
We're focused on using resources efficiently and minimizing pollution to protect our natural environment. Limiting the environmental impact of our operations is a priority for Uniper.
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Human rights and compliance culture
Find out how Uniper manages human rights risks along the supply chain and how we prevent violations of the law throughout the various aspects of our business.
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Stakeholder engagement
Transparent engagement with our stakeholders is important to us because a relationship founded on trust is a prerequisite for positive action.
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Climate Action and Security of Supply
May 2020
The dilemma of investing in social and environmental remediation activities
Even if a negative impact is clearly visible on the ground, sometimes it is not easy to identify its specific source
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