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15 INFINITY POWER 2024 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT | PROTECTING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

Protecting the

natural environment

We depend on Africa’s abundant natural Our teams focus on reducing carbon emissions, energy,

water use and waste, and we’re aiming to achieve net Highlights
resources including sun and wind to
gain for biodiversity across our sites.
power our projects, and we seek to • Completed two years of carbon emissions

assessment (2023 and 2024), bringing our
protect the natural world we depend on. As climate impacts intensify across the continent, from
reporting up to date
prolonged droughts to devastating floods, we’re working

Our business exists to scale renewable energy across with project partners to demonstrate that large-scale • Launched a group-wide biodiversity strategy

the continent while protecting the environment and renewable projects can address Africa’s energy needs to achieve biodiversity net gain across our

supporting the shift to a low-carbon future. We take care while enhancing the environment and building climate portfolio by 2030

to minimise our environmental impact at every project resilience for communities.

stage, from construction to decommissioning.

Challenges and learning

2030 commitments Performance in 2024 Progress • Remedial works completed at our West Bakr

• Achieve a 35% reduction in carbon • Emissions intensity currently above 2020 site in Egypt led to a significant but temporary

emissions intensity* baseline but have decreased 7% since 2023 increase in our water use and waste
production this year

• Achieve no net loss to biodiversity as defined • Biodiversity strategy approved by the Board
• Increase in development activity has led to
by IFC Performance Standard 6 and implemented across group
an increase in emissions intensity until new

• Replant more than double the trees removed • Taiba N’Diaye project in Senegal has projects begin generating energy

during project construction exceeded targets, planting 6,500 trees

*compared to Lekela Power’s historic emissions baseline of 2.58g of CO e produced per kWh generated during 2020
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