Denbury Carbon Solutions

Denbury is uniquely positioned to leverage our experience and existing CO₂ infrastructure to lead in the evolving CCUS industry, deliver value to our stakeholders and facilitate a meaningful reduction in CO₂ emissions. The Denbury Carbon Solutions team was formed in January 2020 to advance Denbury’s leadership in the anticipated high-growth CCUS industry, leveraging our unique capabilities and assets.

Denbury has a long, successful history of safely managing and injecting large-scale volumes of CO₂ in conjunction with our EOR operations, utilizing our industry-leading CO₂ infrastructure position in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. Our team is building on this strong foundation to capitalize on the rapidly increasing demand for CCUS solutions, which are essential to meeting the challenge of providing affordable, reliable energy while addressing the risks of climate change.

Our highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team is actively growing this business and is engaged in negotiations with multiple potential customers to transport and store their captured CO₂ emissions. We are immediately able to utilize additional captured CO₂ in our existing EOR fields, and our team is also working to secure additional non-EOR CO₂ storage locations.

ESG – Capturing CO₂ for EOR and CCUS & Sustainably Leveraging the Denbury Difference

Our corporate responsibility strategy focuses on four areas: Our Company, Our People, Our Environment and Our Communities. Each of these areas are important and could impact Denbury's success and the well-being of our employees, investors, business partners and communities ("stakeholders"). These areas provide the foundation of our 2021 Corporate Responsibility Report ("Report") and are discussed in detail throughout the four sections of this Report.

This Report has been prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative's ("GRI") Sustainability Reporting Standards ("GRI Standards"). We have also consulted and included indicators from the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s (“SASB”) Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Sustainability Accounting Standards (“SASB Standards”) and recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”).

Our Company

The sustainability of our business is critical to our investors, employees and communities—they depend on, and benefit from, our continued successful operations. We recognize that in order to run a sustainable company, we must have successful, ethical and responsible operations. Maximizing investor value through sound corporate strategies, fostering our core values and integrating good corporate governance standards and practices are the most material issues for our business and our stakeholders when considering the sustainability of our business.

The specific GRI topics that we discuss in this section of the Report are:

GRI:
G4-OG1 Reserves GRI:
102-16 &
102-17 Ethics and
Integrity

Our People

Our employees are our greatest resource, and each individual helps shape Denbury into a unique and exceptional place to work. We recognize that our employees are crucial to Denbury’s future, and we care about our employees' and their families' well-being beyond the work environment. Safety, training and development, well-being and engagement and fostering a diverse and inclusive work culture are the most material issues for our business and our stakeholders when considering our employees.

The specific GRI topics that we discuss in this section of the Report are:

GRI:
401-1 &
401-2 Employee
Well-being GRI:
403-1 & 
403-2 Employee Health
& Safety GRI:
404-3 Employee
Training &
Development GRI:
405-1 Employee
Diversity & Equal
Opportunity

Our Environment

We and our stakeholders care about the environmental impact of our operations. We recognize that providing and integrating sound environmental policies, procedures and practices into our broader health, safety and environmental programs are key to our success as a company. We strive to be environmentally responsible in all aspects of our operations. Managing our carbon and environmental footprints, avoiding spills and releases, focusing on sound environmental policies, procedures and practices, and establishing Health, Safety and Environment (“HSE”) Management Systems are the most material issues for our business and our stakeholders when considering our environment. Denbury has a company-wide Emergency Response Plan that covers various types of emergencies, including spill response, well-control events, natural disasters, fire and pandemics.

The specific GRI topics that we discuss in this section of the Report are:

GRI:
305-1,
305-2
305-3,
305-4 Managing Our
Carbon Footprint GRI:
306-3 Spill Prevention

Our Communities

We are honored and privileged to be a part of the communities in which we operate. Rather than merely being a dependable and ethical business presence in our communities, we feel obligated to find ways to give, volunteer and invest in community campaigns and philanthropic organizations that stimulate local economies. Additionally, we believe that community engagement through open dialogue and communication is an essential part of being a responsible corporate citizen. Local economic investments, charitable giving and community engagement are the most material issues for our business and our stakeholders when considering our communities.

The specific GRI topics that we discuss in this section of the Report are:

GRI:
201-1 &
203-2   Economic
Investments & 
Impacts

Unless otherwise noted, this Report covers our operations during the 2019 and 2020 calendar years. Following the publication of our last five reports in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019, we received feedback and input from both internal and external stakeholders regarding our report and our sustainability initiatives which aided in our development of this Report. As a reflection of our commitment to economic, environmental, and social and governance issues, and in an effort to enhance our disclosure to our stakeholders, we currently intend to release an updated report at least biennially.

This is our sixth report to be prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards, an internationally recognized framework for sustainability reporting that focuses on economic, environmental and social issues and efforts and enables all companies and organizations to measure, understand and communicate this information. The GRI is a non-profit organization that promotes the use of sustainability reporting as a way for organizations to become more sustainable and contribute to sustainable development. We have continued to utilize GRI’s updated GRI Standards, including the G4 Oil and Gas Sector Disclosures, and have developed this Report in accordance with the GRI Standards' “Core” reporting option. However, we have included disclosures beyond the “Core” reporting requirements to increase our disclosures to our stakeholders. For example, we have addressed many of the GRI Standards' General Disclosure items related to corporate governance, which are only required under the “Comprehensive” reporting option.

We also consult and include indicators from the SASB Standards and recommendations from the TCFD. SASB is a non-profit, independent standards-setting organization that establishes and maintains industry-specific standards which assist companies in providing voluntary disclosures to investors on environmental, social and governance issues. TCFD is a global task force that developed a set of voluntary, consistent climate-related financial risk disclosures that enable companies to inform their investors and other stakeholders about the risks they face related to climate change.

Denbury Inc. and its subsidiaries operate as “Denbury.” Throughout this Report, unless otherwise noted, “Denbury,” “Company,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Denbury Inc. and its subsidiaries.

Reporting Principles

We prepared this Report in accordance with the reporting principles suggested in the GRI Standards. We also incorporated reporting principles suggested in the SASB Standards and recommendations from TCFD where applicable. These principles guided us, both in defining the content of this Report and in defining the quality of this Report.

The principles for defining report content are:

• Stakeholder Inclusiveness—We sought input from our key stakeholders and sought to report on issues which are important not only to our business, but also to our stakeholders;
• Sustainability Context—This Report presents our performance in the wider context of sustainability issues, including our long-term strategy;
• Materiality—The areas discussed and disclosures included in this Report pertain to those economic, environmental, social and governance factors which are most impactful to our business and key stakeholders; and
• Completeness—In preparing this Report, we included issues and disclosures broad enough to reflect the significant economic, environmental, social and governance impacts of our Company, both inside and outside of our organization, and to enable our stakeholders to assess our performance.

The principles for defining report quality are:

• Balance—This Report reflects our overall performance, including both the positive aspects of our performance and those areas in which we are striving for improvement;
• Comparability—The issues discussed and disclosures included in this Report under the GRI Standards, SASB Standards, and TCFD-related disclosures will allow us to report on these issues consistently in the coming years which will enable comparison of our performance over time;
• Accuracy—The information included in this Report is sufficiently accurate and detailed to allow for the proper assessment of our sustainability performance;
• Timeliness—We will report at least on a biennial basis so that information will be sufficiently current for stakeholders to make informed decisions;
• Clarity—We have prepared this Report in such a way as to present information that is understandable, accessible and usable by our stakeholders; and
• Reliability—We have gathered, recorded, compiled, analyzed and disclosed information in a way that establishes the quality and materiality of the information in this Report.

Materiality Assessment

This Report focuses on sustainability issues and activities that are most material to Denbury as a company and to our stakeholders, as determined by a materiality analysis. Input was solicited and received from our key stakeholders, including interviews with investors and feedback from senior management and our Board of Directors. The data and comments received during the materiality analysis were then used to create lists of the most material issues where Denbury has a significant sustainability impact, based on both the impact the issues have on our business success and the importance of those issues to our stakeholders. This Report includes the issues which are most important to our business success and which are most important to our stakeholders. For example, our employees indicated that safety of our employees and contractors is one of the most material issues of our business. We heard from various investors interested in learning about our carbon emissions. All of our stakeholders believed that avoiding spills and releases, and limiting the impact of any that do occur, is a material issue.

Those material issues are the foundation of this Report. Using the GRI Standards as our guide and including indicators from the SASB Standards and recommendations from the TCFD, we determined the topics that aligned with our material issues. This Report includes discussion, disclosures and analysis of our material sustainability issues and, to the extent those material issues dovetail with GRI, SASB, and/or TCFD topics, we have responded to the appropriate general disclosure or topic-specific standard. Our Index includes a list of all of our GRI Standards, SASB Standards, and TCFD-related disclosures and indicates the location in this Report where information about each disclosure can be found.

This Report also contains statements based on hypothetical or adverse scenarios and assumptions, and these statements should not necessarily be viewed as being representative of current or actual risk or forecasts of expected risk. While future events discussed in this Report may be significant, any significance should not be read as necessarily rising to the level of materiality of the disclosures required under U.S. federal securities laws. We may have used definitions of materiality in the course of creating this Report that do not coincide with or rise to the level of the definition of materiality for the purposes of U.S. federal securities laws.

Feedback

We believe Denbury must seek to continuously improve in all areas of operations, implement high standards of environmental protection and ethical conduct, and work proactively to be a good corporate citizen by aligning our interests as a company with the interests of our stakeholders. Our Board of Directors and management, both local and at our headquarters in Plano, Texas, want to hear from you so we can address any concerns and continuously improve in the areas important to us and our stakeholders.

Please reach out to the appropriate contact if you have a concern about our operations, an idea about how we can improve, or anything you want to bring to our attention. Additionally, we would like to hear your thoughts on this Report. As we prepare future reports, we will consider input from a wide range of stakeholders with respect to their expectations for our sustainability reporting and performance.

Below are a few contacts but more can be found at Denbury.com.

Forward-Looking Statements and Other Information

This Report is being provided in an effort to respond to specific investor requests and to further enhance our collective understanding of Denbury Inc.’s sustainability efforts. Our approaches to the disclosures included in this Report are different from those included in mandatory regulatory reporting, including under SEC regulations. This Report contains, and references other documents (e.g., our Annual Report on Form 10-K) that contain, forward-looking statements that reflect Denbury Inc.’s views about future events as of the date of this Report or the date of the referenced document. The forward-looking statements included in and referenced by this Report speak only as of the date they are made, are based upon management’s current plans, expectations, estimates and assumptions and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, changes in circumstances and assumptions that are difficult to predict, are often beyond our control and could significantly affect current or future plans, anticipated actions, the timing of such actions and our financial condition and results of operations. Actual results and outcomes may differ materially from expectations, estimates or assumptions expressed in or implied by any forward-looking statement made by us or on our behalf due to a variety of known and unknown factors, including, among others global socio-demographic and economic trends, energy prices, technological innovations, climate-related conditions and weather events, legislative and regulatory changes, and other unforeseen events or conditions. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement. We do not assume, and expressly disclaim, any duty or obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management’s estimates or opinions change.

Investors are urged to closely consider the disclosure and risk factors in our most recent Annual Report on
Form 10-K and in other reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available at Denbury’s website, www.denbury.com.

This Report also contains statements based on hypothetical or adverse scenarios and assumptions, and these statements should not necessarily be viewed as being representative of current or actual risk or forecasts of expected risk. While future events discussed in this Report may be significant, any significance should not be read as necessarily rising to the level of materiality of the disclosures required under U.S. federal securities laws. We may have used definitions of materiality in the course of creating this Report that do not coincide with or rise to the level of the definition of materiality for the purposes of U.S. federal securities laws.

Statement Regarding CO₂ Storage Associated with EOR: Our CO₂ EOR operations provide an environmentally responsible method of utilizing CO₂ for the primary purpose of oil recovery that also results in the associated underground storage of CO₂. Any reference in this Report to storage of CO₂ associated with our EOR operations is not meant to encompass CO₂ stored for the primary purpose of carbon sequestration.