# IPIECA

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{{Short description|Non-profit gas industry association (est. 1974)}}{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Ipieca
| formation                = 1974
| purpose                  = The global oil and gas association for advancing environmental and social performance across the energy transition
| headquarters             = [London](/source/London), [United Kingdom](/source/UK)
| leader_title             = CEO
| leader_name              = Brian Sullivan
| website                  = https://www.ipieca.org/
}}

'''Ipieca''' is a global [not-for-profit](/source/not-for-profit) [oil and gas industry](/source/oil_and_gas_industry) [association](/source/industry_association) for [environmental](/source/environmental_issue) and [social issues](/source/social_issues), headquartered in London. The association was established in 1974 at the request of the [United Nations Environment Programme](/source/United_Nations_Environment_Programme) (UNEP) as the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association and changed its name in 2002.

Company members contribute to Ipieca's budget according to an individually agreed percentage based on the volume of [crude oil](/source/crude_oil) produced and [petroleum products](/source/petroleum_products) sold by each company and the number of geographical areas where the company has interests.

Ipieca is the industry channel into UN's [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change](/source/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change) (IPCC) and the [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change](/source/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change) (UNFCCC), both concerned with [climate change](/source/climate_change). 

Its geographical coverage encompasses North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Western and Eastern Europe and the global [energy market](/source/energy_market).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://climateinitiativesplatform.org/index.php/International_Petroleum_Industry_Environmental_Conservation_Association_(IPIECA)|title=International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) - Climate Initiatives Platform|website=climateinitiativesplatform.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-22}}</ref>

Beginning in the 1980s, the organization was involved in efforts to dispute climate science and weaken international climate policy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bonneuil|first=Christophe|last2=Choquet|first2=Pierre-Louis|last3=Franta|first3=Benjamin|date=2021|title=Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021|url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03390521/file/Bonneuil-Choquet-Franta_GEC2021_Early%20warnings...Total%E2%80%99s%20responses_GEC.pdf|journal=Global Environmental Change|language=en|doi=10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102386|issn=0959-3780|doi-access=free}}</ref>

==See also==
*[International Association of Oil & Gas Producers](/source/International_Association_of_Oil_%26_Gas_Producers), set up at the same time and in the same place

==References==
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==External links==
*https://www.ipieca.org
*[https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/en/corporate/pdf/sustainability-report/tables/bp-ipieca-guidance-2016.pdf Ipieca reporting table BP Sustainability Report 2016]

Category:Petroleum industry

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