Red Flag 25. Greenhouse gas-intensive activities, products and services that contribute to negative impacts on people’s rights

THIS RED FLAG MAY APPEAR (INTER ALIA) IN A COMPANY’S VALUE CHAIN.

The extraction, refining, distribution, sale and/or use of oil, tar sands, oil shale gas or natural gas
The mining, processing, sale, and combustion of coal
Companies that depend heavily on:
- Industrial land-use that results in extensive deforestation or other emissions-intensive land-use change (e.g., for palm-oil plantations or industrial livestock farming; see also Red Flags 12 & 13)
- Industrial processes that produce significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (e.g., steel and cement production, aluminum refining and smelting, fertilizer production)
- Intensive non-renewable fuel/energy use (e.g., technology data centers or large infrastructure in certain geographies, international shipping and aviation)
Companies whose principal products depend heavily upon non-renewable fuel/energy use (e.g., automotive, shipbuilding and aerospace manufacturing, energy inefficient products)

Oil and gas exploration, extraction and transportation
Coal mining, processing and transportation
Fossil fuel-based power generation (e.g., lignite, coal, oil and natural gas)
Carbon-intensive industrial sectors (e.g., petrochemicals, steel, iron, cement, aluminum and construction inputs)
Industrial-scale conventional agriculture (e.g., industrial livestock farming, palm oil plantations, and other commercial farming activities)
Forestry and forest products
Large-scale transportation (e.g., industrial land transport, marine shipping, aviation)
Transportation manufacturing (e.g., automotive, shipbuilding, aerospace)
Large-scale infrastructure, including real estate
Information and Communication Technology (see also Red Flag 21)
Financial institutions that are significantly financing higher-risk industries that lack robust transition planning