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Decarbonisation Action 2030 – The Journey to Net Zero 2024 Edition

ENN Energy first released “Decarbonisation Action 2030 – Journey to Net Zero” in 2021, proposing a long-term goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 without relying on the purchase of green certificates and other offsets. The publication of the 2024 edition of “Decarbonisation Action 2030 – The Journey to Net Zero” (the “Decarbonisation Action 2024”) fulfils the Company’s commitment to reviewing its decarbonisation action plan every three years, examining the progress and achievements, and adjusting key targets to ensure the smooth advancement of its low-carbon transition.

Low-carbon transition driven by innovation in four key scenarios: Nature Gas, IE, Value Added Business and Low-Carbon Office

As a pioneer in the low-carbon transition, ENN Energy strives to promote the green development of industry and society through continuous innovation of its technology and business model. Based on customers’ actual needs, the Company provides whole-chain, customised energy solutions across four key scenarios: natural gas, IE, value added business and low-carbon office.

▲ The Panorama of Decarbonisation Action 2030 – 2024 Edition

In the Natural Gas scenario, the Company is constantly improving its methane emission control initiatives and exploring innovative technologies to further enhance the energy efficiency of natural gas. Meanwhile, the Company is actively exploring the application prospects of natural-gas-based hydrogen projects. This includes collaborating with customers to build the first hydrogen blending station at a project operation site, achieving the simultaneous development of natural gas and hydrogen. In the IE scenario, the Company is actively advancing the construction of low-carbon factories and industrial parks while providing cleaner energy to facilitate the low-carbon transition in industrial energy use. The Company also leverages its extensive experience in building services management to provide customised building energy-saving solutions. Additionally, the Company is expanding its clean energy solutions with a focus on photovoltaics and biomass energy. This includes customising a distributed photovoltaic and storage project, as well as introducing low-carbon business models such as direct combustion of biomass for energy supply and biomass conversion to biogas. In the Value Added Business scenario, the Company leverages digital technologies to intelligently upgrade basic gas services and actively promotes energy-saving gas appliances to help residential users improve their energy use efficiency. In the Low-Carbon Office scenario, the Company implements a low-carbon operation across four dimensions, including cleaner energy utilisation, optimised energy management in office buildings, low-carbon transportation, and the construction of a low-carbon office system.

Smooth progress on low-carbon transition targets, with several targets achieved ahead of schedule

Over the past three years, the targets set in the Decarbonisation Action 2021 progressed smoothly, with some targets being achieved ahead of schedule. By the end of 2023, ENN Energy made significant strides in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and optimising its energy structure, including:

• By continuously optimising methane control management, and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, the GHG emission intensity of the city-gas business was reduced by 28.5% compared to 2019, surpassing the target of a 20% reduction by 2030 and achieving this significantly ahead of schedule.
• The GHG emission intensity per unit of energy generated in the integrated energy (IE) business decreased by 36.5% compared to 2019 through continuous exploration and promotion of renewable energy and diversification for a cleaner energy mix. The Company is making progress toward the target of a 48% reduction by 2030.
• By improving the energy efficiency of office buildings and implementing energy conservation measures, the energy consumption per unit area of office buildings was reduced by 11% compared to 2021, exceeding the target of a 10% reduction by 2025 and achieving this ahead of schedule.
• As of 30 June 2024, the annual biomass consumption reached 1.87 million tonnes, up 273.5% from 0.5 million tonnes in 2021. The Company is making progress toward the target of 3.27 million tonnes by 2030.
• In December 2023, the Company released its first Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Report, which disclosed its progress in terms of governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets by referencing the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework.
• The updated investment and financing requirements and performance management methods for key green industry projects were included in the 2024 ENN Energy Green Finance Framework, which obtained an independent second-party opinion and certification provided by S&P Global in 2024.

Updates to net-zero roadmap and low-carbon transition targets

Based on its business operations, ENN Energy references leading domestic and international low-carbon transition standards and frameworks to set environmental and corporate low-carbon transition targets, while outlining a clear net-zero roadmap that provides guidance for its energy conservation and emission reduction efforts.

▲ ENN Energy’s Net-Zero Roadmap – 2024 Edition

Since some targets have been achieved ahead of schedule in Decarbonisation Action 2021, the Company has set more ambitious new targets, demonstrating its determination to advance on the path to low-carbon transition. Meanwhile, the Company will optimise the emission reduction measures in various business scenarios to ensure the achievement of its long-term goals. These measures include:

• Using 2019 as the baseline year, the target for GHG emission intensity of the city-gas business has been updated from a 20% reduction by 2030 to a 50% reduction. To achieve this, the Company will continue to optimise the identification of methane emission sources to achieve full coverage of Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) laser methane monitoring system in all city-gate stations and expand the application of unmanned city-gas stations to significantly reduce the energy consumption.
• The GHG emission intensity reduction target for the IE business has surpassed the halfway mark. The Company will continue to increase the supply of renewable energy, establish an energy supply model that integrates multiple clean energy sources, and intensify the exploration of the application of renewable energy and zero-carbon energy such as photovoltaic, biomass, geothermal, air, and hydrogen energy relying on the IE micro-grid, and develop customised comprehensive energy solutions for customers based on their specific needs.
• The Company remains dedicated to addressing the needs of residential users. Building upon its commitment to ensuring gas safety, the Company will continue to leverage digital solutions to deliver comprehensive services that enhance the quality of life for households, assisting in the creation of green homes.
• Using 2021 as the baseline year, the target for energy consumption per unit area of office buildings has been updated from a 10% reduction by 2025 to a 20% reduction by 2030. To achieve this, the Company will continue to replace traditional lighting fixtures with energy-saving ones in self-sustaining office buildings, actively promote paperless office, deploy energy management systems in self-sustaining office buildings, and establish an internal E-Carbon Pass System to incentivise employees to reduce GHG emissions.
• The proportion of photovoltaic power consumed in self-owned office buildings has been updated from 5% by 2025 to 10% by 2030. To achieve this, the Company will continue to leverage its strong technological advantages of IE business to increase the developable photovoltaic area in office spaces.

Through the release of the Decarbonisation Action 2024, ENN Energy reaffirms its mission to “achieve the coordinated development of its own carbon reduction and the green upgrading of business, contributing to high-quality social development”. Moving forward, the Company will further integrate sustainability into its business practices and deeply explore market demands for green energy consumption driven by customer needs. By leveraging technology, it will continuously innovate products and services to promote intelligent upgrades in the industry. The Company will work hand in hand with upstream and downstream partners to support the realisation of China’s “Dual Carbon” goals.

Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Report

In December 2023, ENN Energy released its first climate-related financial disclosure report. This report aims to demonstrate the Company's attention to climate change issues and its determination to actively address climate-related risks and seize climate-related opportunities, in response to the requirements and expectations of regulators, the capital markets, and stakeholders for climate-related financial disclosure.

In this released climate-related financial disclosure report, ENN Energy provided a detailed overview of the impact of its Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Metrics and Targets on the Company's operations and business model by referring to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) framework.

Governance
The Board of Directors of ENN Energy continues to improve its climate change governance structure in response to the global climate challenge. ENN Energy is committed to effectively promoting the implementation of climate strategy, reducing the impact of climate-related risks on the Company's development and operations through organisational safeguards, and seizing development opportunities from energy globalisation and low-carbon transition.

Strategy
ENN Energy has committed to a green and low-carbon transition as part of its significant strategy plan. The Company has developed a comprehensive strategy to implement six major emission reduction actions in the areas of (1) city gas methane management, (2) low-carbon trade and transportation, (3) energy structure transformation of the integrated energy business, (4) system energy efficiency improvement, (5) green technology application, and (6) green office. ENN Energy also establishes short and medium-term carbon reduction targets for 2030 and the long-term carbon neutrality target for 2050. The Company conducts a review and adjustment of these targets every three years to ensure their science, rational, and effectiveness.

Risk Management
ENN Energy considers effective risk and compliance management to be critical to the Company's development and has continued to improve its enterprise risk management system.

ENN Energy has identified nine types of risks: policy and price; compliance; operation; reputation; legal; health, safety and environment (HSE); market; finance; and climate change. Among these, climate-related risks, which might have significant impacts on the Company's business scope, has been integrated into the overall risk management process of ENN Energy.

In 2023, ENN Energy identified a total of 40 climate-related risks and opportunities, including 10 physical risks, 14 transition risks, and 16 opportunities. Based on this identification, each risk was deeply considered and scored in terms of likelihood and severity through expert assessment and workshops with ENN Energy. A shortlist of most crucial climate-related risks and opportunities was then developed based on their possibility and materiality to the Company, of which comprising five risks and two opportunities. An in-depth financial quantitative assessment (Value-at-Stake analysis, VaS) was conducted for the shortlisted risks and opportunities.

Future Outlook
Climate change has become a common challenge for humanity and current global climate policies and actions are far from achieving the goals set in the Paris Agreement of limiting the global warming to 2°C or 1.5°C. The recently concluded 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) after the Paris Agreement came into effect and reached the milestone 'UAE Consensus'. The global stocktake showed clearly that the global climate progress is not prompt enough, ambition and determination must be strengthened in the critical years ahead.

Looking forward to the future, ENN Energy will continuously enhance its capabilities in climate governance, and follow the trend of the times, and seize the huge opportunities arising from the energy transition to provide our customers with clean and low-carbon energy, work with upstream and downstream partners to contribute to achieve China's "dual carbon" goal. ENN Energy will respond to climate-related risks in a highly strategic and forward-looking manner. The Company will actively seek green innovative solutions, continue to implement decarbonisation actions and explore new areas of business growth opportunities, and continuously monitor and manage climate-related risks to prevent the potential financial impact of climate change and the negative impact on business operations promptly. ENN Energy will also seize the market opportunities arising from the low-carbon transition.

ENN Energy will shoulder the mission of energy companies in response to the global climate challenge and work together with stakeholders to build a low-carbon, green, and sustainable future for the earth and humanity.

Biodiversity Conservation

ENN Energy is responding to the national biodiversity conservation strategy and adhering to the sustainable development. It has clarified the medium- and long-term decarbonisation action goals, and integrated biodiversity conservation concepts and measures into corporate strategies and daily operations.

On May 22, 2022, the 29th International Day for Biodiversity Conservation, ENN Energy released its first Biodiversity Conservation Report , which systematically discloses the Company's practices and achievements in terms of biodiversity conservation. The report disclosed measures taken by the Company for protecting the ecology through five dimensions, land use change, climate change, pollution, overexploitation and species invasion.

Green Finance

The ENN Energy Holdings Limited ("ENN Energy")  has established a Green Finance Framework ("Framework") that sets out how it proposes to use the amount equal to net proceeds to finance or refinance on green projects that in line with the company development strategy, so as to support the company to achieve long-term sustainable development.

ENN Energy Green Finance Framework aligns with the 2018 Green Bond Principles ("GBP 2018") of the International Capital Market Association, and the 2020 Green Loan Principles ("GLP 2020") developed by the EMEA Loan Market Association, Asia Pacific Loan Market Association and Loan Syndications & Trading Association.

Vigeo Eiris, an independent international provider of ESG research, has provided an independent Second-Party Opinion on ENN Energy's Green Finance Framework, and has expressed a "reasonable assurance" (their highest level of assurance) on the company's commitments and on the contribution of the Framework to sustainability, with the opinion that the Framework is aligned with the four core components of the GBP 2018 & GLP 2020, namely Use of Proceeds, Process for Project Evaluation and Selection, Management of Proceeds and Reporting.

Besides, Besides, Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) has provided an independent Second-Party Opinion and certified the Framework under the Green Finance Certification Scheme.