Natural diversity in ecosystems provides many benefits to human life.

And yet
biological diversity, or biodiversity, faces threats in many places. Chevron
recognizes the importance of conserving biodiversity. In all our operations, we strive
to avoid or reduce the potential for significant damage to sensitive species, habitats
or ecosystems.
Biological diversity, or biodiversity, refers to the variety of life on Earth. As
defined by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, it includes
diversity of ecosystems, species and genes, and the ecological processes that
support them. Natural diversity in ecosystems provides essential economic benefits
and services to human societysuch as food, clothing, shelter, fuel and medicines
as well as ecological, recreational, cultural and aesthetic values, and thus plays an
important role in sustainable development. Biodiversity is under threat in many
areas of the world. Concern about global biodiversity loss has emerged as a
prominent and widespread public issue.
We recognize the importance of biodiversity conservation and support it through
our values, performance, and communication and engagement.
Values: Protecting the safety and health of people and the environment is a
Chevron core value. Therefore, we:
Strive to design our facilities and conduct our operations to avoid adverse
impacts to human health and to operate in an environmentally sound, reliable and
efficient manner.
Conduct our operations responsibly in all areas, including environments with
sensitive biological characteristics.
Performance: We strive to avoid or minimize significant risks and impacts our
projects and operations may pose to sensitive species, habitats and ecosystems.
This means that we:
Integrate biodiversity into our business decision-making and management
through our Operational Excellence (OE) management system.
Drive and assess our performance relating to biodiversity through key OE
expectations and processes, including Environmental Stewardship; Environmental,
Social and Health Impact Assessment; Risk Management, and HES Property Transfer.
Understand that humans and the natural environment are interdependent and
interact with each other in various ways. In managing our impacts, we consider
those interrelationships and the functions ecosystems perform in supporting
sustainable economic development.
Recognize that our activities could affect particularly sensitive or valuable
biodiversity inside or outside of legally designated protected areas. Therefore we:

Decide whether and how to operate in a protected or sensitive area, based on

consideration of the specific circumstances of the area and operation involved.
Operate in such areas only with government legal authorization, and where
we are confident we can comply with all regulatory requirements and use operating
practices appropriately protective of the area.
Use our OE processes to avoid or minimize potential risks of our operations to
sensitive biological resources and seek ways to make positive contributions to
biodiversity conservation in the area.
Communication and Engagement: We undertake activities to raise internal and
external awareness of the importance of conserving biodiversity and how the
company is addressing it. These include:

Communicating about our biodiversity-related activities to employees and

outside audiences, through communications such as our Corporate
Responsibility Report.
Engaging with government, local communities and others to understand and work
to address significant biodiversity issues in areas where we operate.
Participating in industry associations and other forums to share and promote best
practices for biodiversity conservation.
Seeking to understand and, where appropriate, participating in development of
external policy-making activities that affect our operations, such as those adopted
under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and national, regional and local
biodiversity policies and plans.
Working with a variety of external organizations to make positive contributions to
biodiversity conservation in areas where we operate and globally.
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life. This can refer to genetic variation,
species variation, or ecosystem variation[1] within an area, biome, or planet.
Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be highest near the equator, which seems to be the
result of the warm climate and high primary productivity.[3] Marine biodiversity
tends to be highest along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface
temperature is highest and in mid-latitudinal band in all oceans.[4] Biodiversity
generally tends to cluster in hotspots, and has been increasing through time[6][7]
but will be likely to slow in the future.

The earliest evidences for life on Earth are graphite found to be biogenic in 3.7
billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered in Western Greenland[13] and
microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western
Australia.[14][15] Since life began on Earth, five major mass extinctions and several
minor events have led to large and sudden drops in biodiversity. The Phanerozoic
eon (the last 540 million years) marked a rapid growth in biodiversity via the
Cambrian explosiona period during which the majority of multicellular phyla first
appeared.[16] The next 400 million years included repeated, massive biodiversity
losses classified as mass extinction events. In the Carboniferous, rainforest collapse
led to a great loss of plant and animal life.[17] The PermianTriassic extinction
event, 251 million years ago, was the worst; vertebrate recovery took 30 million
years.[18] The most recent, the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, occurred
65 million years ago and has often attracted more attention than others because it
resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.[19]

The period since the emergence of humans has displayed an ongoing biodiversity
reduction and an accompanying loss of genetic diversity. Named the Holocene
extinction, the reduction is caused primarily by human impacts, particularly habitat
destruction. Conversely, biodiversity impacts human health in a number of ways,
both positively and negatively.[20]

The United Nations designated 20112020 as the United Nations Decade on

Biodiversity.
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life.[1] This can refer to genetic variation,
species variation, or ecosystem variation[1] within an area, biome, or planet.
Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be highest near the equator,[2] which seems to be
the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity.[3] Marine biodiversity
tends to be highest along coasts in the Western Pacific, where sea surface
temperature is highest and in mid-latitudinal band in all oceans.[4] Biodiversity
generally tends to cluster in hotspots,[5] and has been increasing through time[6]
[7] but will be likely to slow in the future.[8]

The earliest evidences for life on Earth are graphite found to be biogenic in 3.7
billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered in Western Greenland[13] and
microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western
Australia.[14][15] Since life began on Earth, five major mass extinctions and several
minor events have led to large and sudden drops in biodiversity. The Phanerozoic

eon (the last 540 million years) marked a rapid growth in biodiversity via the
Cambrian explosiona period during which the majority of multicellular phyla first
appeared.[16] The next 400 million years included repeated, massive biodiversity
losses classified as mass extinction events. In the Carboniferous, rainforest collapse
led to a great loss of plant and animal life.[17] The PermianTriassic extinction
event, 251 million years ago, was the worst; vertebrate recovery took 30 million
years.[18] The most recent, the CretaceousPaleogene extinction event, occurred
65 million years ago and has often attracted more attention than others because it
resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs.[19]

The period since the emergence of humans has displayed an ongoing biodiversity
reduction and an accompanying loss of genetic diversity. Named the Holocene
extinction, the reduction is caused primarily by human impacts, particularly habitat
destruction. Conversely, biodiversity impacts human health in a number of ways,
both positively and negatively.[20]

The United Nations designated 20112020 as the United Nations Decade on

Biodiversity.