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Entergy Corporation 2013 INTEGRATED REPORT 46
ENVIRONMENTAL
Protecting Our Environment
Our Environmental Strategy
We developed a comprehensive environmental strategy in 2011 that addresses stakeholder
concerns, potential new regulatory requirements, environmental resource limitations and
financial considerations. In 2013, we participated in a collaborative industry study to assess
the materiality of various sustainability, safety and environmental priority issues. The issues
discussed in our Environment2020 strategy are consistent with those listed as priority issues
across the industry. Our Environment2020 strategy has six areas of focus:
• Continuously reduce Entergy’s environmental footprint.
• Assess and implement adaptation measures to mitigate physical risks to our operating area
posed by climate change.
• Proactively manage emerging compliance areas.
• Deploy energy-efficient technologies and enhance transmission and distribution networks
to assist customers in reducing energy use and cost.
• Advance Entergy’s utility portfolio transformation which will help to accelerate clean
generation.
• Engage employees and other stakeholders to advance Entergy’s vision for corporate
sustainability and environmental stewardship.
As a result of our efforts, we were named by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index to the World
Index and North America Index, and we were also named to the Carbon Disclosure Leadership
Index and the Carbon Performance Leadership Index.
OUR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES, SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES
In 2013, to support organizational changes implemented to improve focus and efficiency,
we split our Safety, Health and Environmental Management System into two systems – one
focused on workforce safety and health and one focused on environmental compliance. Our
management approach to executing our environmental strategy is based on our Environmental
Management System, which connects company objectives to all operating sites through
targets, assessments and risk mitigation recommendations appropriate to each asset.
External review is central to validation of the Environmental Management System.
Additionally, a review of environmental impacts is an integral component of any new product
or service business case, engineering design or maintenance plan and the approval process for
any mergers, acquisitions or other investments. Entergy develops a corporate point of view on
potential carbon emission costs at least annually for use in investment decision analysis.
“We were named by the
Dow Jones Sustainability
Index to the World Index
and North America Index,
and we were also named
to the Carbon Disclosure
Leadership Index and the
Carbon Performance
Leadership Index.”
547.2 606.5
904.4
659.7
CUMULATIVE CO2 EMISSIONS
Million tons
Cumulative
Emissions
2001–2013
“Business
As Usual”
Case
2001–2013
Cumulative
Goal
2001–2013
Cumulative
Goal
through
2020