Responding to Climate Change

Anadarko is a partner in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Natural Gas STAR Program and a member of the American Petroleum Institute's Climate Challenge Program and Canada's Climate Change Voluntary Challenge and Registry, Inc. As such, the company supports ongoing scientific research on this debate while implementing measures to reduce atmospheric carbon emissions and integrating air quality safeguards into its business practices around the world.

Climate change is a much debated and discussed environmental issue in our global community. Evolving scientific debate centers around the relative impact of human activities versus natural causes on the world's climate. The impact of greenhouse gas emissions - particularly carbon dioxide and methane - has emerged as a specific concern. As a good corporate citizen, Anadarko is committed to responsible environmental stewardship. Anadarko continually looks for innovative ways to minimize the environmental impacts of its activities, including reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Anadarko applies generally accepted scientific principles to all of its operational activities - geological, geophysical, in engineering and production, and environmental. In the environmental arena, Anadarko is a partner in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Natural Gas STAR Program and a member of the American Petroleum Institute's Climate Challenge Program and Canada's Climate Change Voluntary Challenge and Registry, Inc. As such, the company supports ongoing scientific research on this debate while implementing measures to reduce atmospheric carbon emissions and integrating air quality safeguards into its business practices around the world.

In 2003, Anadarko formed a Climate Change Committee to organize, evaluate and advise on climate change and greenhouse gas issues. More recently, the company approved a Greenhouse Gas Management Plan, recommended by the Climate Change Committee, which addresses the management of emissions of CO2 and CH4 on all of Anadarko's worldwide operating locations.

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Anadarko Climate Change Committee
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Greenhouse Gas Management Plan
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