Gulf understands that sustainability refers to the company’s long-term success which must be achieved through sound business practice, ethical competitiveness, social and environmental responsibility, and creation of shared value for all our stakeholders. As such, we have adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda as the foundation upon which our approach to sustainability has been built.

The United Nations Agenda is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and lays out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were developed to further the successes of the Millennium Development Goals introduced at the start of the millennium. At its heart, the Sustainable Development Agenda aims to eradicate poverty, protect the environment, and create prosperous societies free from inequality and discrimination. The SDGs thus cover issues pertaining to the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainable development and encourage the fostering of peaceful societies and strong partnerships.

Gulf endeavors to do our part in helping to achieve the SDGs by encouraging responsible business practices, taking into account our social and environmental obligations to the local communities around our power plants as well as the society at large. As risk is an inherent part of business, we have adopted a precautionary approach in our decision-making in order to ensure that we minimize any negative impacts that may occur to the society or environment as a result of our actions. More importantly, we have set out to increase our positive impact on the country, supporting initiatives that we believe will create benefits in all three aspects of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental.