INTEGRAL MANAGEMENT OF BIODIVERSITY IN ISA ENERGY TRANSMISSION BUSINESS GROUP
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INTEGRAL MANAGEMENT OF BIODIVERSITY
IN ISA ENERGY TRANSMISSION BUSINESS GROUP
Connections with sustainable value
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Integral Management of Biodiversity – IMB –
Our Manifesto
• If we recognize that our planet is fragile and needs our
care, there is a connection
• If we understand that our actions, no matter how small,
have an impact, there is a connection
• If we realize that in each of us lies the change that we
want for the world, there is a connection
• Knowing and protecting the diversity of ecosystems
each country where we are present is a privilege that goes
hand in hand with the nature of our daily work
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Focus of our Integral Management of
Biodiversity
Designs that
minimize the
impacts on the
environment and
biodiversity
ISA and its subsidiaries have a clear and
determined intention towards the conservation
of biodiversity, through legal and voluntary IMB
actions directed to manage the possible impacts Environmental Portfolio of
on biodiversity during the entire assets life cycle, as Corporate compensations
well as to contribute to its conservation. Policy
“Jaguar
Connection”
Program
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PROCESS OF BIODIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT
As part of the strategies for the management of
biodiversity, we implement responsible actions in favor
of the environment, avoiding the affectation of
sensitive species and ecosystems, mitigating and
compensating the impacts that our activities cause on
ecosystems and biodiversity. Therefore, we combine
efforts and create strategic inter-institutional alliances
with environmental authorities and key actors, allowing
us to explore and motivate synergies aimed at the
conservation and protection of biodiversity in
accordance with national and regional priorities.
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Biodiversity
Management in
Assets Life Cycle
In ISA and its companies,
biodiversity management is
a material issue and
therefore is an integral
part of environmental
management in the life
cycle of the asset.
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Internal Procedures for Biodiversity
Management
MANUAL FOR LEGAL ENVIRONMENTAL
SIPOC MANAGEMENT IN ASSETS LIFE CYCLE
It is a tool in tabular format to characterize the
process of execution of environmental Its objective is to establish the regulatory
management in the projects, from the requirements and voluntary commitments,
identification of key elements in the domains of such as the activities that must be fulfilled to
suppliers - inputs - process - output – customers. carry out environmental legal management
during the life cycle of the projects, in order
to ensure the obtaining of licenses, permits
This tool contains the instructions for the or corresponding environmental
development of the necessary processes in the authorizations.
environmental management of the projects.
These processes include the preparation of a
work plan, the presentation of the Evironmental This manual applies to the activities of
Management Plans (PMA) including control and supply, design, construction, operation and
monitoring, the making of ICAs reports and the maintenance and decommissioning and
elaboration of the social management plan. modification of electrical infrastructure
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Tools for Mitigation Hierarchy
ARPEX and ARA
In the planning stage of the projects, biodiversity-restricted areas included in Restrictions Analysis of the
Expansion Plan and Analysis
the ARPEX are identified. The ARPEX aims to contribute to the selection and of Environmental Restrictions
prioritization of the offerings of the group business portfolio, through the
analysis of environmental, social and property issues of future projects, using
the technology of GIS, in order to generate mitigation actions; and it is
performed for all projects of the Expansion Plan of the countries where ISA is
DAA
present.
Environmental Diagnosis of
Alternatives
During the ARA, a preliminary route of a project is selected for the
preparation of an offer, considering environmental, engineering and property
issues. These processes contribute to the prioritization of those projects that
minimize impacts on biodiversity. EIA and PMA
Environmental Impact
Assesment and Environmental
Management Plan
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PROCESS OF BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Mitigation Hierarchy
ARPEX and ARA
The purpose of the DAA is to evaluate and compare the different options of the Restrictions Analysis of the
devolopment of a project presented by the company. Expansion Plan and Analysis
of Environmental Restrictions
These options must take into account the geographical environment, the biotic,
abiotic and socioeconomic characteristics, the comparative analysis of the effects
and risks of the project; as well as the possible solutions and control and mitigation
measures for each of the alternatives. DAA
Environmental Diagnosis of
Alternatives
For the physical-biotic characterization of the area of influence of the project,
databases of threatened species of national and regional order are consulted such as
Red Books of the IUCN and checklist of CITES species
EIA and PMA
The above provides the elements required to select the alternative that optimize and Environmental Impact
rationalize the use of natural resources and avoid or minimize the risks, effects and Assesment and Environmental
negative impacts that may be generated. Management Plan
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PROCESS OF BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Mitigation Hierarchy
Once the environmental authority selects the best alternative for the project, the EIA
is elaborated. ISA and it companies have manuals, procedures and instruments to ARPEX and ARA
manage the impacts identified in the EIA, which is the basic instrument for decision Restrictions Analysis of the
making in projects that require an environmental license and is publicly available for Expansion Plan and Analysis
of Environmental Restrictions
anyone. In general, this study includes:
1. Project location, infrastructure and activities.
2. Characterization of abiotic, biotic and socioeconomic media of the ifluence area.
3. Demand of natural resources by the project
DAA
4. Environmental impacts and risk analysis.
Environmental Diagnosis of
5. Economic evaluation of the positive and negative impacts of the project. Alternatives
6. PMA and its implementation costs. The PMA describes the activities aimed at
preventing, mitigating, correcting and compensating environmental and social
effects of the project.
7. Monitoring programs for abiotic, biotic and socioeconomic media (ICAs). These EIA and PMA
monitoring are performed periodically and presented to the environmental Environmental Impact
authority for its aproval. Assesment and Environmental
Management Plan
8. Contingency plan for the construction and operation of the project.
9. Biodiversity offset plan with the objective of not having a net loss of biodiversity
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Mitigation of impacts on biodiversity
Forestry Optimization – Business Case
ISA and its companies incorporate the concept of Ecoefficiency and minimization of environmental impacts
and risks, especially on biodiversity. We established indicators to reduce the intervention on the vegetation
cover through the whole lifecycle of the assets. After calculating the baseline and the achievements of the
initiatives we established the target to reduce by 10% the area of plant cover cleared for the construction
of projects.
• Lower costs in the lifecycle of • Manages business risks and • Improves the opportunity at the entrance of
the asset interest groups the projects
• Saving time in the process • It contributes to social • Improves quality
• Avoid fines, penalties or acceptance by community • Increase the use of assets (Availability, usage
compensation rate)
• Applies to financial assistance • Improving the effectiveness of the operation
from the state grant, bond, and maintenance
incentive for investment • Decreases impact or contamination
• Decreasing applied tax • Minimizes waste and consumption of resources
• Early warning of risks and energy
• Reputation • Friendly products with the environment
• Open green market or qualified
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Regulation
We abide by and respect the legislation established in every country in which we operate, as well as all relevant covenants,
agreements and treaties and voluntary commitments acquired by ISA and its companies. These regulations establish the
procedure and mechanisms to obtain No Net Loss or Net Improvement. In addition, we go further with the protection of
biodiversity with our voluntary program “Jaguar Connection”
COLOMBIA PERU CHILE BRAZIL
According to Supreme
Federal Decree
Decree No. 40 of 2012,
The Resolution 0256 of 4,340/2002 establishes
The General Law of the compensation measures can
2018 approves de update of that for purposes of the
Environment (Law N° only be applied when it is
the Manual of Compensation 28611), in its article 6, environmental compensation
not possible to mitigate or
of the Biotic Component, establishes that (defined in Law 9,985 /
repair a significant impact.
which allows us to design environmental management 2000), environmental
Biodiversity compensation
measures to manage the has as priority objectives to authority will establish the
requires the execution of
negative impacts of a prevent, monitor and avoid degree of impact from the
environmental degradation. measurable actions that
project: preventing EIA made in the process of
When it is not possible to offset residual impacts of a
environmental impacts, environmental licensing. It
eliminate the causes that project on biodiversity (after
minimizing and correcting considers the negative, non-
generate it, the appropriate having established mitigation
those that can not be mitigable impacts and
mitigation, recovery, and repair measures), aimed
avoided and, ultimately, restoration or compensation possible risks that may
at producing an alternative
carrying out the necessary measures are adopted. compromise the quality of
and equivalent positive
compensation measures. life of a region or cause
effect to obtain no net loss
damage to natural resources
or a net gain of biodiversity
© TODOS LOS DERECHOS RESERVADOS POR INTERCONEXIÓN ELÉCTRICA S.A. E.S.P. 11Avoid possible impact on
biodiversity (Articulation
Integral Management of
engineering and Biodiversity, in the framework of
environment)
high-voltage electric power
transmission
Integral
Management of
Biodiversity
Offset portfolio with
integral and long-term Synergies aimed at the
vision Inter-institutional
strategic alliances conservation and
protection of biodiversity
© TODOS LOS DERECHOS RESERVADOS POR INTERCONEXIÓN ELÉCTRICA S.A. E.S.P. 12IMB, in the framework of high-voltage
electric power transmission
Important strategic alliances in Colombia
• Prioritize compensations in National Natural Parks
National Natural Parks • Exchange of information
• Training
Regional System of Protected • Identification of potential compensation areas
Areas in the Caribean
Terrasos - Company dedicated
• Structuring of the first Tropical Dry Forest Habitat Bank
to the implementation of
compensation and
environmental investment
strategies
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• Strategy aimed at positively impacting and with guarantees of permanence over time, hand in hand
with communities and regions. These compensations are close to giving the order to start the contract for
the preparation and structuring of a portfolio that will be part of the basic inputs for the specific plans of each
project.
Conservation of
Identification of protected areas
areas
Compensation strategies
Offset Portfolio Protection of biodiversity
10.872 ha Payments for
environmental services
Potentialize conservation
In compensation for / restoration initiatives in
the intervention of Habitat banks
coordination with
1,273 ha of natural communities, authorities
Identification of coverages and other stakeholders
efficient and
“PeaceForests”
sustainable
compensation
mechanisms over
time Acquisition of
properties
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INTERCOLOMBIA
Maintenance carried out in 2016 and
38.6 Plantation Finished
2017
Acquisition of properties of
The properties were given to the
158 strategic importance for Finished
Municipality of Yacopí in 2017
conservation
Voluntary protection for GHG
1230 Finished. Protection of tropical humid forest with degraded land by mining and livestock 2017
compensation
Pending Biodiversity Next to give order to start the contract by the environmental authority for the preparation
10872 2022
Compensation and structuring of a portfolio
REP
Pending approval by the national authority. In the initial permit, 200 ha of compensation
Plantation for biodiversity
were envisaged, however the actual impact was 30 ha thanks to the optimization of Start planting at the end of 2018 and do
30 compensation of MAMO
vegetation cutting. Most projects in Peru cross through desert areas where there was no annual monitoring for 30 years
project
vegetation damage and compensation activities did not have to be done.
CTEEP
Plantation for biodiversity
50.4 compensation of CTEEP and it Finished. These areas were delivered and closed by the competent environmental agency 2018
subsidiaries
It will be monitored in accordance with
Plantation for biodiversity
2 Monitoring stage SMA 32/2014 and it is expected to
compensation of CTEEP
address all indicators in up to 20 years
INTERCHILE
This compensation is due to forest intervention of the Polpaico project. The Encuentro-
2020 to complete the implementation
150 Reforestation Lagunas project has EIA but because it is located in the desert it has no impacts on the flora,
and 10 years of monitoring
fauna management is done, especially birds, using flight deviators
The establishment is during the
Voluntary planting of arboreal
290 Approximately 80% progress has been made in the rescue of succulents and shrub species construction phase of the project and
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the monitoring is for 10 yearsJaguar Connection is our voluntary sustainability program, a corporate initiative aimed at contributing to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, by implementing forestry projects for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in priority areas for the protection, recovery, connection of natural habitats and corridors of the Jaguar in Latin America. Jaguar Connection is the legacy of ISA and its companies for the planet and new generations, the way in which we reaffirm our commitment towards sustainability.
OUR ROL
“Jaguar Connection” Program
We create and lead the implementation of the Jaguar
Connection program and provide the resources for its
development. We ensure the sustainability of the Program and
its permanent growth to increase coverage in the Jaguar
Corridor.
For the integral development of Jaguar Connection, we have
the technical support of the South Pole Group and Panthera,
two world leaders in climate change, sustainability and
conservation of big cats.OUR TECHNICAL ALLIES
“Jaguar Connection” Program
Develops projects and activities that contribute to mitigation and
adaptation to climate change. It is a leader in the voluntary carbon
bond market. In the last 7 years, it has sold more than 28 million
carbon credits, many of them under the Verified Carbon Standard
(VCS), the Climate, Communities and Biodiversity Standard (CCBS),
and the Gold Standard (GS).
Within the program our ally focuses on:
Analyze the proposed projects and develop their carbon cycle.
Issue carbon credits certified under standards.
Commercialize the carbon credits of the program.OUR TECHNICAL ALLIES
“Jaguar Connection” Program
Is the leading organization worldwide, which is dedicated
exclusively to the conservation of the 38 existing species of big
wild cats and their ecosystems, with focus on the largest and
threatened, including the jaguar and the puma.
Within the program our ally is responsible for:
• Provide scientific information on identification of areas that
serve as Jaguar Corridor
• Perform the monitoring of biodiversity in the areas of the
projects with emphasis on large vertebrates.
• Accompany the implementation of good practices of coexistence
and conflict management between humans and jaguars or
pumas.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the conservation measures of the
Jaguar and its associated biodiversity.Mitigation of
climate change
Development of rural
communities
Conservation of
biodiversity
Ecosystemic
services
20
©Todos los derechos reservados por Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P.Advances and Contribution
of the “Jaguar Connection”
Program
Mitigation of climate Ecosystemic services
change
• Emission reduction potential • Improvement of soil and water
of 278,569.82 tCO2 2017 in conditions.
Colombia
Conservation of Development of rural
biodiversity communities
• Sensitization and
• Protection of about 400 environmental education to
hectares of forests and water communities.
sources • Reduction of poverty and
• Recovery of about 2,200 improvement of the quality
hectares of degraded land Presence of ISA of life (improvement of
• Contribution to the recovery of infrastructure, roads, health
Jaguar Corridors
the connectivity of the jaguar centers, among others).
corridor. • Empowerment of women,
• Protection of endemic species through the generation of
employment.
21Highlights of the “Jaguar Connection” Program
• Sighting of endemic species and critically endangered species
Paujil de pico azul (Crax alberti) Tití cabeciblanco (Saguinus oedipus)
22Presence of the
“Jaguar Connection”
Program
Mitigation of Climate
2018 in Latin America Change
Mitigación del
Stage I cambio of
Conservation climático
• COL - Cimitarra Biodiversity
• COL - Tierralta
Stage II
• 2 in Colombia Ecosystemic Services
• Chile
• Perú
• Brasil Development of rural
communities
23TARGETS
“Jaguar Connection” Program
TARTGET TARGET YEAR ADVANCES IN 2017
Three projects implemented in Two projects in implementation of the carbon technical cycle
2017
Colombia and one project for the purchase of carbon credits
Three (3) projects implemented in Convocatory process, selection and prioritization of projects.
2018
Peru, Chile and Brazil Pre-selection of three projects in Latin America
ISA and its Energy Transmission
2020 ISA, XM and INTERCOLOMBIA are carbon neutral since 2016.
companies will be Carbon Neutral
Offset of 100,000 tCO2 2020 Offset of 5,161 tCO2e of 2016.
12 projects implemented 2020 Two projects in implementation of the carbon technical cycle
Protection of about 400 ha of forests and water sources.
180,000 hectares of protected Recovery of about 2,200 ha of degraded land. Contribution to
2020
jaguar corridors the recovery of the connectivity of the jaguar corridor.
Improvement of soil and water conditions.Challenges of our Integral Management of
Biodiversity
• Continue with the articulation of engineering and the environment,
seeking to avoid as much as possible the impact on biodiversity
(designs that minimize interventions on natural resources and the
environment)
• Prevent, minimize and compensate the impacts on biodiversity during
assets life cycle (implementation of good practices in the construction and
operational stage)
• Identify areas and compensation mechanisms that are more
efficient and sustainable over time
• Strengthen in a continuous manner the synergies with public and
private entities
• Involve and strengthen relationships with communities in the
framework of compensation, generating great benefits for them
• Advance in the development of the “Jaguar Connection” Program
and achieve its autonomy and sustainability
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