Veolia is one of the 89 signatory companies to the French Business Climate Pledge: "French businesses are committed to the climate!"
December 11, 2017 at 01:04 pm EST
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11 december 2017
On the eve of the One Planet Summit initiated by the President of the French Republic, 89 French companies, including Veolia, this morning signed the French Business Climate Pledge. 39 of them had already signed a Climate Manifesto during COP21.
The level of ambition means accelerating our actions
The 89 French signatory companies of the 2017 French Business Climate Pledge affirm the need to collectively change course in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) on a planetary scale.
Together, these companies represent 6 million jobs and global revenue of 1,500 billion euros. Between 2016 and 2020 they will commit more than 320 billion euros in funding, research and development and innovation in order to develop low carbon projects.
Veolia's commitments to reduce its carbon footprint:
- Capture more than 60% of methane from managed waste storage facilities.
- Achieve 100 million tonnes of CO equivalent reduced emissions over the 2015-2020 period.
- Achieve 50 million tonnes of CO equivalent avoided emissions over the 2015-2020 period.
- Reach more than €3.8 billion in circular economy related turnover in 2020.
After COP21, Veolia set up an internal 'Strategy and Climate' task force to strengthen the Group's positioning on a 2°C trajectory. Among the actions initiated is the introduction of an internal CO price set at €31 / t in 2030 which is taken into account in the Group's investment decisions.
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>The MEDEF site(in French only): Medef press release - 'French Business Climate Pledge - les French business are committed to the climate' and 'They've joined us', the presentation of the contributions of companies that have joined the pledge
>The Climate Manifesto, signed on 26 November 2015
>One Planet Summit
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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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