Rosneft’s green investments increased by 4% in 2025, reaching almost 77 billion roubles. Over the past three years, the total has exceeded 215 billion roubles. These funds are being invested in major projects that benefit the environment, including reducing industrial emissions, improving water management and enhancing pipeline reliability.

Rosneft takes a comprehensive approach to environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources. The Company adheres to the UN Principles and Goals for Sustainable Development and is pursuing a long-term environmental agenda based on the Rosneft 2030 Strategy. Key events and achievements, including those relating to sustainable development, are detailed in the 2025 Annual Report.

Last year, Rosneft approved the Clean Air programme to support Russia’s national development goals and the federal project of the same name. The programme’s primary objective is to reduce industrial emissions at 41 of the Company’s sites across 13 cities. Furthermore, the Clean Water programme was developed and approved as part of the strategic objective to ensure the rational use of water resources, bringing together measures and projects to improve wastewater treatment quality at Rosneft’s sites.

Considerable attention is paid to land remediation and waste management. In the regions where it operates, the Company has continued its efforts to remediate heritage sites damaged during the Soviet era. In 2025, 360 hectares of land were remediated, with around 80% of this work carried out by the Company’s own environmental services team. Rosneft processed over 3.8 million tonnes of drilling waste and around 0.9 million tonnes of oil-containing waste in 2025, helping to reduce the volume of oil-containing waste from historical legacy sites.

Rosneft places particular emphasis on biodiversity conservation. As part of the Tamura programme, which was launched in 2024 to conserve Arctic ecosystem biodiversity, a full-scale aerial survey of the Kara Sea subpopulation of polar bears was conducted for the first time last year. Just two years since the programme began, 10 research expeditions have been organised in collaboration with Russia’s leading scientific institutions.

With Rosneft’s support, work also continued on other environmental projects. These included research into the Siberian musk deer population in Evenkia; a programme to monitor the Okhotsk grey whale population off the Sakhalin coast; studies of the Steller’s sea eagle population in the Khabarovsk Territory and the white-tailed eagle population in the Samara Region; and a programme aimed at increasing the Amur tiger population. The Company has also expanded its work on conserving rare animal species by taking a foal into care from Russia’s only semi-wild population of Przewalski’s horses.

Last year, scientists summarised the findings of the Company’s three-year, large-scale environmental project in the White Sea. The research confirmed the stability of the ecosystems and identified gaps in our understanding of the fauna. It also described species that were previously unknown to science.

Drawing on many years of experience in biodiversity research and conservation projects, as well as scientific data, the company’s ecologists have developed a standard corporate biodiversity conservation programme covering all regions of operation. This programme is the result of extensive work involving the compilation of a comprehensive list of significant species, including marine and terrestrial mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, terrestrial invertebrates, zooplankton, phytoplankton and terrestrial plants, each with a detailed description.

Rosneft’s subsidiaries regularly participate in forest conservation and reforestation activities, as well as various environmental campaigns, across different regions of the country. These include Green Spring, Forest Planting Day, Save the Forest and the international Garden of Remembrance campaign, which is dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Great Patriotic War.

As part of reforestation initiatives across different regions of the country, around 8 million trees of various species were planted by Rosneft’s employees in 2025. These initiatives took place in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area–Yugra, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and the Tyumen, Saratov, Samara, Sakhalin, Tomsk and Ryazan regions, as well as in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Moscow and elsewhere. In total, around 46 million trees have been planted over the last five years.

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May 19, 2026

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