Who are we?
As a global leader in the water and waste management sectors, we have been operating for over 160 years all over the world. We provide essential services to protect the resource and improve quality of life wherever we operate.
Contribute to decarbonising energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting our most exposed sites to climate change
Our "Climate" approach is based on 3 levers :
> Contributing to energy decarbonisation
2021 baseline updated including 2022 acquisitions (R&R UK, EnviroServ and IWS France) and in line with GHG protocol principles.
| COMMITMENT | INDICATOR | 2021 PRO FORMA |
OBJECTIVE | RESULTS 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make our own electricity consumption more sustainable |
Share of sustainable electricity (renewable and recycled) consumption over total Group electricity consumption (%) |
Group: 28% Europe: 27% |
By 2030 Group: 70% Europe: 100% |
23%
|
| Reach European electricity self sufficiency |
Share of electricity production (renewable and recycled) over electricity consumption in Europe |
1.36 | By 2027 >1 |
1.53 |
| Contribute to the low-carbon energy transition of territories: more emissions avoided (thanks to energy production) than emitted (from consumption |
Share of GHG avoided from energy production over GHG emitted by energy consumption | 0.99 | By 2027 >1 |
0.92 |
> Decarbonising our value chain
| COMMITMENT | INDICATOR | 2021 PRO FORMA |
OBJECTIVE | RESULTS 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 (market-based) emissions |
GHG from Water activities: Scope 1 + Scope 2 (kilotons of CO2 eq.) |
1,023 | By 2030 - 39% |
1,069 or +4% |
| GHG from Waste activities excluding waste to energy: Scope 1 + Scope 2 (kilotons of CO2 eq.) |
2,113 | By 2030 - 26% |
1,875 or -11% |
|
| GHG from energy from waste activities: Scope 1 + Scope 2 (kilotons of CO2 eq.) |
2,388 | By 2030 - 2% (2) |
2,346 or -2% |
|
| Energy from Waste(1) activities: investment in carbon capture |
- | By 2030, investment of tens of millions € for carbon capture | Feasibility studies launched. Several initiatives underway in France and the UK | |
| Reduce Scope 3 emissions | Share of Scope 3 covered by GHG mitigation action plans (%) | 2% | By 2030, 50% of Scope 3 covered by an action plan | 6% |
1) Energy recovery from non-hazardous waste, hazardous waste and RDF/SRF.
(2) This target will be revised upwards depending on the inclusion of energy recovery in the EU ETS and the definition of a sectoral trajectory.
> Adapting all priority and vulnerable sites to climate change
| COMMITMENT | INDICATOR | 2021 PRO FORMA |
OBJECTIVE | RESULTS 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adapt our priority and vulnerable sites to climate change | Share of priority and vulnerable sites with a defined action plan |
5% | By 2027 100% |
The exposure to the 28 climate change hazards has been assessed on 100% of the sites |
Our commitments are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Our actions for Climate
Sustainability
Decarbonising waste collection in Limoges
In 2023, the Limoges metropolitan area in France entered a “performance contract”, a new form of...
Sustainability
A dumpsite converted into a green energy production centre in Meknes
Since 2014, we have transformed what used to be a dumpsite outside the city of Meknes in Morocco.
Sustainability
Assessing risks to adapt water treatment sites to climate change in France
Extreme climate events can affect water and wastewater facilities: for example, plants can flood in...
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Our 2023 - 2027 Sustainable Development Roadmap
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