The transformation of the energy system, alongside the digital revolution, entails changing and evolving the way works are performed and how goods and services are supplied. It also means suppliers are essential partners to achieve sustainable progress across our operating footprint.
Suppliers are our partners in the journey to sustainable growth. We work with them to maximize the economic, productive, social and environmental benefits of the transition. We strive to create sustainable, innovative, and circular processes that also enable us to better quantify, and thus mitigate, the total impacts they generate, aware of the need to minimize pressure on critical materials and components through technological innovation and continuous recycling and to support our partners’ resilience and repurposing.
All of this underpinned by loyalty, transparency and collaboration. We ask in addition to guaranteeing the necessary quality standard. The latter include working conditions, health and safety, adequate hours worked, rejection of forced or child labor, respect for personal dignity, nondiscrimination and inclusion of diversity, freedom of association and collective bargaining, and respect for privacy by design and by default. All of the above, within a clear code of conduct framework that includes, to name a few, our Human Rights Policy, Code of Ethics, Zero Tolerance of Corruption Plan and our global compliance programs.