VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT : Building Together for sustainable development
September 05, 2014 at 10:19 am EDT
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Veolia, partner of the 7thConvergences World Forum organised from 8th to 10th September at the Palais Brongniart and Paris City Hall, will participate in three days of exchanges around the theme of "Objective 2030: Building Tomorrow's World Together".
For the 4th year, Veolia is a partner of the Convergences World Forum, the first platform in Europe for exchanges and debates on the subject of the United Nations' development goals, bringing together more than 5000 participants.
In this 7th Forum, Veolia will be an active participant in debating ideas and discussing experiences about the necessity to implement a sustainable system of consumption and production.
For the first time, Veolia is joining together with 3 large companies - Unilever, Rexel and Crédit Agricole - to express their common vision on the essential role of the private sector in the implementation of post-2015 development objectives. This involves promoting the process of working together through concrete examples.
As Antoine Frérot, CEO Managing Director of Veolia, emphasises: "Our Business, deeply rooted in the regions, has taught us that room for new creativity emerge when different stakeholders work together to build concrete solutions. These are translated by the development of new models: moving towards an efficient circular economy, making more out of less, serving people without harming the environment".
Veolia Environnement is the world leader in environmental management services. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- water-related services (40.6%; No. 1 worldwide): water resources management, drinking water distribution and delivery, wastewater collection, treatment and recovery, engineering, design, construction of water treatment facilities and customer relationship management, etc.;
- waste management services (32.4%; no. 1 worldwide): collection, treatment and recycling of liquid, solid, non-hazardous and hazardous waste, waste treatment and recovery through composting, energy recovery from waste, etc. Veolia Environnement also provides urban waste management services (maintenance and cleaning of public spaces, provision of mechanized street cleaning and façade treatment services), maintenance of industrial sites, and dismantling of industrial facilities and equipment at the end of their useful life;
- energy services (27%; No. 1 in Europe): delegated management of urban heating and air conditioning networks, management of thermal and multi-technique services (operation of heating systems, facility design, construction, and maintenance, etc.) and industrial services (industrial process analysis, production equipment operation, service, and maintenance), general management of buildings and public lighting.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (21.5%), Europe (41.9%), North America (7.4%), Asia (5.6%), Africa and the Middle East (4.9%), Pacific (4.3%), Latin America (4%) and other (10.4%).
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