Sustainability

The project’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was submitted to and approved by the relevant Mozambican Authority in 2014. Since then, we have diligently continued to conduct work on additional environmental, social, and health-related matters to determine the impacts and risks associated with the construction and operation of the Mozambique LNG Project and have taken the necessary measures to mitigate such impacts and risks.

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To align the project’s EIA with the IFC’s Performance Standards, we have conducted support studies and assessments, and designed appropriate management plans. Some studies built on those carried out during the original EIA, such as the biodiversity studies. Others focused on broader social issues, including community health and project-induced in-migration.

The Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) executive summary provides a comprehensive overview of these completed studies and their respective findings.

Taken together these studies enabled us to create our Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP).

Download the ESHIA executive summary

The Mozambique LNG Project’s Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) sets the framework for managing environmental, social and health impacts and risks during the project’s construction-phase. The ESMP includes programs and procedures which aim to avoid, minimize, offset or compensate for specific construction-phase impacts and risks across three categories: environmental, social, and monitoring.

As part of the ESMP, we conduct periodic monitoring and evaluations of the implementation of E&S management plans including:

• Biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Community stakeholder engagement
• CSO/NGO engagement
• Project-induced in-migration
• Social Investment Strategy
• Workforce and Industrial Relations
• Community health management
• Community-based security
• Resettlement
• Cultural heritage