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Our sustainability performance data provides annual (Jan. 1 to Dec. 31) environment, social and governance data for 2020, with five-year performance trends where possible. Data reflects assets owned and operated by Suncor unless otherwise stated. Not all data is consistent with our 2020 Annual Report due different reporting boundaries. Footnotes provide additional information for specific boundary conditions, changes in methodology, restatements, and definitions, where applicable, which can be found in the 2021 Report on Sustainability data download below.

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Detailed information on our 2020 performance can be downloaded below.

2021 Report on Sustainability Performance Data

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Indicators – Suncor company totals	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Operational performance
Total upstream and downstream productionmillion m³/yr	44.71	48.53	53.95	55.85	47.54
Total upstream and downstream productionmillion BOE/yr	281.22	305.24	339.33	351.28	299.02
Upstream processed volumes and net productionmillion m³ OE/yr	24.23	27.22	34.19	36.00	28.80
Upstream processed volumes and net productionmillion BOE/yr	152.40	171.21	215.05	226.40	181.15
Downstream net productionmillion m³ refined product/yr	27.23	27.98	26.92	27.57	25.25
Downstream net productionmillion BOE/yr	171.27	175.99	169.32	173.42	158.81
Ethanol productionmillion litres of ethanol product/yr	414.39	407.80	402.00	399.57	335.95
Wind energy generatedMWh	106,912	76,589	100,850	98,419	96,952
Greenhouse gas (GHG) and energy
GHG (Scope 1 and 2) emissionsthousand tonnes CO₂e	18,739	19,874	21,990	22,722	20,856
Operated total GHG emissions intensitykg/BOE	63	63	62	62	66
Operated total GHG emissions intensityg/MJ	10.5	10.3	10.0	10.1	10.9
Equity total GHG (Scope 1 and 2) emissionsthousand tonnes CO₂e	24,783	25,945	27,997	28,997	27,703
Equity total GHG emissions intensitykg/BOE	64	64	68	68	71
Equity total GHG emissions intensityg/MJ	10.8	10.7	11.2	11.2	11.7
GHG (Scope 3) emissionsthousand tonnes CO₂e	-	-	-	-	122,900
Energy usemillion GJ	285.80	301.98	336.10	346.31	320.05
Energy IntensityGJ/BOE	1.02	0.99	0.99	0.99	1.07
Air emissions
SO₂ emissionsthousand tonnes	21.10	20.51	20.50	20.78	21.93
SO₂ emissions intensitykg/BOE	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.07
NO_x emissionsthousand tonnes	24.90	26.64	33.29	36.98	33.66
NO_x emissions intensitykg/BOE	0.09	0.09	0.10	0.11	0.11
VOC emissionsthousand tonnes	19.50	23.14	25.96	21.30	22.55
VOC emissions intensitykg/BOE	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.06	0.08
PM₁₀ emissionsthousand tonnes	-	-	-	2.60	2.39
H₂S emissionsthousand tonnes	-	-	-	0.05	0.04
Water use
Water withdrawalmillion m³	162.18	105.07	144.69	143.43	133.96
Water withdrawal intensitym³/BOE	0.58	0.35	0.43	0.41	0.45
Water returnedmillion m³	105.12	65.99	77.44	77.10	77.35
Water consumptionmillion m³	57.19	39.07	67.24	66.33	56.61
Water consumption intensitym³/BOE	0.20	0.13	0.20	0.19	0.19
Fresh water consumptionmillion m³	36.80	22.40	46.52	51.60	31.04
Fresh water consumption intensitym³/BOE	0.13	0.07	0.14	0.15	0.10
Land disturbance and reclamation
Total land disturbedcumulative hectares	23,613	23,960	33,772	34,525	34,993
Total land reclaimedcumulative hectares	2,140	2,239	2,621	2,795	2,850
Waste
Total waste generatedthousand tonnes	2,148	2,123	2,487	2,420	2,683
Hazardous waste generatedthousand tonnes	1,982	999	983	1,049	1,006
Non-hazardous waste generatedthousand tonnes	167	1,124	1,503	1,371	1,676
Waste recycled, reused or recoveredthousand tonnes	123.00	71.00	96.18	151.82	82.37
Environmental compliance
Environmental non-compliance#	5	5	9	9	4
Environmental regulatory finesthousand CND$	275	413	282	113	5,439
Significant spills#	0	0	0	0	0
Economic
Revenues and other income$ millions	26,968	32,079	38,986	38,989	25,052
Operating, selling and general expense (OS&G)$ millions	9,150	9,245	10,573	11,244	9,927
Employee costs$ billions	3.40	3.20	3.30	3.60	2.80
Royalties and taxes paid$ millions	105	1,489	1,695	2,555	933
Distribution to shareholders and bondholders$ millions	2,889	3,069	3,230	3,439	2,554
Economic value retained$ millions	14,789	18,249	23,488	21,751	11,638
Enterprise value$ billions	89	89	76	81	52
Capital and exploration expenditures$ millions	6,582	6,551	5,406	5,558	3,926
Political donations$ thousands	3	0	0	0	0
Supply chain
Total supplier base#	8,463	7,997	6,497	5,768	4,870
Indigenous supplier base#	58	55	85	88	104
Purchases of goods and services$ billions	11.91	11.64	10.62	9.90	8.60
Total Indigenous supplier-spend$ millions	445	521	703	836	911
Community investments
Total contributions to charitable, non-charitable and community groups$ thousands	33,800	26,557	28,980	33,102	36,278
Suncor's donation to the Suncor Energy Foundation (SEF)$ thousands	10,164	16,600	18,455	20,255	19,000
Suncor Energy Foundation (SEF) donations$ thousands	14,881	16,649	15,817	15,143	17,637
SunCares Employee Program
Employee participation%	-	27	26	29	34
Organizations supported#	-	1,271	1,377	1,501	1,935
Value of Suncor and SEF donations$ thousands	-	1,668	2,822	2,660	2,954
Value of employee personal donations$ thousands	-	1,313	2,719	3,138	2,802
Volunteer hours#	-	80,706	73,259	96,067	73,979
Health and safety
Total lost-time injury frequency# per 200,000 hours worked	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.04	0.04
Total recordable injury frequency# per 200,000 hours worked	0.33	0.40	0.37	0.39	0.32
Serious injury and fatality# (actual)	4	1	1	1	1
Fatalities#	0	1	0	1	2
Tier 1 and 2 Loss of Primary Containment Events#	87	46	45	39	38
Workforce
Suncor employees#	13,243	12,649	12,626	13,483	13,035
Long-term contractors#	757	809	559	534	235
Unionized workforce%	34.60	32.80	33.20	31.58	31.78
New employee hires%	5.10	7.70	7.70	8.25	3.34
Employee turnover%	7.00	5.80	6.00	4.76	4.60
Diversity
All Employees
Women%	24.50	23.80	23.20	24.58	23.71
Men%	75.50	76.20	76.80	75.27	76.15
Indigenous Peoples%	1.90	3.00	3.10	3.27	3.40
Visible minorities%	12.60	14.70	12.60	11.81	12.88
Persons with disabilities%	0.82	0.68	0.67	0.74	0.76
Age less than 30%	11.32	8.81	7.96	8.48	7.53
Age 30-50%	61.96	63.92	64.26	65.82	65.71
Age greater than 50%	26.71	26.10	26.11	25.56	26.77

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Performance index

Operational performance

Greenhouse gas (GHG) and energy

Air emissions

Water use

Land disturbance and reclamation

Waste

Environmental compliance

Economic

Supply chain

Community investments

Health and safety

Workforce

Diversity