Process of defining the Report content
This year’s report is based on the Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Reporting Framework and Guidelines (GRI G4, core level), together with the Oil and Gas Sector Supplement. This represents a change in Grupa LOTOS’s approach to reporting − the previous report was based on the GRI G3.1 guidelines at application level A+ (so all GRI indicators were reported, including 43 profile indicators and 98 subjects). Currently, in accordance with the GRI G4 framework, we report only significant topics ( 39 profile indicators and 42 subjects).
In the process of defining the content of the 2015 Integrated Annual Report of the LOTOS Group, we consulted many key stakeholder groups, internal and external, and thoroughly analysed the external sources. This helped draw up the final list of GRI aspects to be included in this Integrated Report.
In accordance with GRI guidelines, the process had three steps:
1. Identification − determination of key topics in corporate social responsibility and business. Internal documents and materials of the LOTOS Group were analysed, including in particular reports from opinion surveys conducted among employees.
We also reviewed many external publications and media information about our company. We took into account the trends and guidelines of international standards for corporate social responsibility and non-financial reporting and made an in-depth analysis of the challenges, opportunities and risks facing the industry and its players. We analysed:
- GRI Sustainability topics for sectors
- Sustainability Yearbook 2016
- Findings of CSR survey carried out among local communities and entrepreneurs
- Comparison of fuel companies.
2. Prioritization − in a dialogue with internal stakeholders, the materiality of key aspects for the organization was identified.
3. Validation − during validation workshops with management staff, we defined the final list of material aspects to be included in the 2015 report. 49 persons representing 11 companies participated in the workshops. The following matrix shows the significance of these issues divided into aspects (economic, social and environmental) and simultaneously leads directly to the chapter describing our approach and activities coonected with the subject. The size of the tile indicates whether a subject has been defined as an important or very important.
Materiality Analysis
Development of local supply chains, employment at local level
The organization’s stance on shrinking natural resources (oil and gas)
Anti-corruption
Corporate governance − ethics
Energy security
Support to research and science development
Impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services (water and land)
Public policy − relations with public administration
Key investment projects − innovation potential
Ensuring highly-qualified staff, acquiring and retaining talents
Ensuring highly-qualified staff, acquiring and retaining talents
HR policy, future of employment
Dialogue with staff
Diversity and equal opportunities, non-discrimination
Key investment projects in the exploration and production and refining segments
Customer relations
Climate change strategy (opportunities and risks)
Our value creation model
The value creation model presented in the report was developed as a result of internal consultations and workshops with the management. One of the objectives of the workshops was to identify the value drivers at the LOTOS Group under the six capitals defined by IIRC, and to determine what benefits to the LOTOS Group and its stakeholders can be derived from the adopted business model. Moreover, last year, we decided to supplement our business model with indicators which allow us to reliably measure our impact on the environment. The choice of indicators was subject to internal consultations. We want to use the experience gained this year while developing the model in the future, presenting our impacts in the most transparent and measurable manner possible.
Benefits to both the LOTOS Group and its stakeholders are presented on the basis of six capitals. We are aware that some of the benefits are generated as part of more than one capital. For the sake of transparency of our model, we have decided to present such benefits only once and attribute them to the capital to which they are most specific.
