This Executive Webinar introduces the potential impacts on environmentally sensitivity areas from oil and gas operations, and the management approaches that can support a positive relationship between oil and gas development and social and environmental objectives in and around these areas. The 90-minute webinar is aimed at practitioners in the oil and gas sector including policymakers, regulators, civil society, academia and the public. There will be live discussion with environmental experts involved in the oil and gas industry.

The Executive Webinar is organized by the UN Environment Programme, in partnership with the Government of Norway’s Oil for Development Programme. While the long-term goal of UNEP is to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels to fight climate change, it is also recognized that oil and gas will remain part of the global energy mix in the foreseeable future. Ensuring that oil and gas are produced in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner and do not impact negatively on local communities are therefore an integral part of UNEP’s work in this sector.