Materiality A key step in developing this Corporate Citizenship Report is ensuring the content reflects ExxonMobil’s most material issues. According to IPIECA, the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues, material issues for sustainability reporting are those that, in the view of both the company’s management and its external stakeholders, have the potential to affect sustainability performance significantly. ExxonMobil has been conducting a materiality assessment to guide our reporting since 2006. For this 2015 report, we refreshed and built upon the process that was used to determine content for our 2014 report. We outline this materiality process below.
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Issue identification
2015 material issues
Using our list of potential material issues from 2014, we used the following sources to identify if there were any new issues to add or issues that may need to be reassessed: • Media review • Feedback sessions with external stakeholders • Benchmarking of peer company reports • Feedback sessions with ExxonMobil business line representatives • Review of new IPIECA reporting guidance
In 2015, two new issues emerged compared with last year: decommissioning and rehabilitation of the environment. While we have reported on these topics in the past, we have not addressed them in detail in recent years. Our materiality assessment results guided us to add them to the list of material topics in 2015.
Community and social impact • Community relations • External stakeholder engagement • Human rights • Indigenous peoples Local development and supply chain management • Economic impacts and development • Supply chain management Corporate governance • Board leadership • Ethics and integrity • Executive compensation • Political advocacy and contributions • Shareholder relations/returns • Transparency
Safety, health and the workplace • Emergency preparedness and response • Employee benefits • Employment practices • Personnel safety • Process safety • Product safety and responsibility • Product transportation safety • Retention and engagement • Training and development • Workplace security • Worksite health and wellness Managing climate change risks • Climate change policy and planning • Energy use/efficiency • Greenhouse gas emissions Environmental performance • Air quality • Biodiversity and ecosystem services • Decommissioning • Environmental compliance • Rehabilitation of the environment • Spill performance • Water
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Issue prioritization
We then prioritized the identified new issues or those that needed to be reassessed based on the following criteria: • Frequency that stakeholders raised the issue • Presence in the public domain • Occurrence under international standards and frameworks • Coverage by our industry and peers • Online and media coverage • Strategic importance to ExxonMobil • Future business opportunities and challenges
Business operations (included throughout report)
• Arctic operations • Canadian oil sands • Energy future • Management systems • Offshore drilling • Unconventional oil and gas operations
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