According to a 2021 survey, over 80 percent of investors believed it was important for oil and gas companies to establish emissions reduction targets. 57 percent of the respondents agreed with the importance to include net-zero targets for scope 1 and 2 emissions. By comparison, 59 percent believed that scope 3 emissions were important. This indicates a consensus among the investors to include emissions reduction targets in the oil and gas companies internal operations, energy consumption, and upstream and downstream value chain segments.
Investors opinion on oil and gas companies and their inclusion of emissions reduction targets worldwide as of 2021
Characteristic
Unimportant
Somewhat unimportant
Neutral
Somewhat important
Very important
Do you believe it is important to establish targets for long-term emissions reduction?
4%
8%
6%
35%
46%
Do you believe it is important have a net-zero target for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions?
8%
14%
21%
33%
24%
Do you believe it is important to address Scope 3 emissions in forward targets and long-term strategy?
Scope 1 and 2 emissions reflects internal operations, and the energy consumed to run such operations, respectively. Scope 3 includes the upstream and downstream value chain.
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