蘇伊士發(fā)布新的可持續(xù)發(fā)展目標
· 今天,蘇伊士集團發(fā)布其面向2027年及之后的新的可持續(xù)發(fā)展目標。這些目標圍繞氣候、生物多樣性和社會責(zé)任三大支柱,共包含24項承諾。
· 在氣候承諾方面,集團正在制定一套適用于全球業(yè)務(wù)的方案。該方案包含三個重要的著力點:
1) 為能源脫碳作出貢獻:在2023年及整個規(guī)劃期內(nèi),實現(xiàn)集團歐洲業(yè)務(wù)用電的自給自足;在2030年前將可再生能源占集團能源消耗總量的比例從目前24%的平均水平提高到全球業(yè)務(wù)70%、歐洲業(yè)務(wù)100%。
2) 減少集團業(yè)務(wù)及其價值鏈上溫室氣體(GHG)的排放總量:在2030年前將集團水務(wù)業(yè)務(wù)的排放量減少近40%,在2030年前將固廢業(yè)務(wù)的排放量減少至少25%(不包括廢轉(zhuǎn)能業(yè)務(wù))。
3) 改造集團運營的最高優(yōu)先級和最具脆弱性的項目,使其適應(yīng)氣候變化的影響。
· 在社會責(zé)任方面,集團希望聯(lián)合各地社區(qū)促進本地就業(yè)和發(fā)展,為負責(zé)任的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展作出貢獻,并通過員工持股計劃鼓勵員工的發(fā)展和參與。
· 除了氣候和社會責(zé)任兩大支柱之外,集團還在生物多樣性領(lǐng)域加大投入力度,并就此提出了10項具體的承諾。
· 集團制定了43項績效指標,并建立了一套堅實的治理框架,專門用于監(jiān)督上述承諾的履行。集團每年將公開披露所有指標,以報告其在上述承諾方面所取得的進展。
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蘇伊士集團董事長兼首席執(zhí)行官蘇冰嵐(Sabrina Soussan)表示:“通過發(fā)布新的路線圖,我們重申了可持續(xù)發(fā)展在蘇伊士發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略中的核心地位。如今,蘇伊士已在氣候變化政策和社會責(zé)任方面提出了新的承諾,其中還包括生物多樣性和自然資源保護方面雄心勃勃的目標。”
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蘇伊士通過開展水的循環(huán)管理以及固廢資源管理業(yè)務(wù),在解決社區(qū)的可持續(xù)發(fā)展問題方面發(fā)揮著關(guān)鍵的作用。
按照2022 年 9 月提出的新企業(yè)發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略,蘇伊士決意邁出更大的步伐,進一步為三大支柱制定雄心勃勃的目標。這是蘇伊士首次在氣候、生物多樣性保護和社會責(zé)任三大領(lǐng)域做出同等堅定的承諾。
集團做出的承諾具體如下:
(一) 氣候
- 擬采取以下措施,推動能源脫碳:
o 提高可再生能源占集團能源消耗總量的比例:利用集團自有發(fā)電裝機容量和新的可再生能源(太陽能和風(fēng)能)供應(yīng)合同,力爭在2030年前將可再生能源占集團能源消耗總量的比例從目前24%的平均水平提高到全球業(yè)務(wù)70%、歐洲業(yè)務(wù)100%。
o 增加集團自有設(shè)施的發(fā)電量:集團的雄心目標是在2023年實現(xiàn)歐洲業(yè)務(wù)用電的自給自足,并在規(guī)劃期內(nèi)長期保持這一自給率。
o 為社區(qū)的低碳轉(zhuǎn)型作出貢獻:集團將通過其固廢管理業(yè)務(wù)供應(yīng)本地生產(chǎn)的可再生能源,造福社區(qū),并進一步減少自身能源消耗所產(chǎn)生的溫室氣體排放。
- 減少集團自身業(yè)務(wù)活動以及代表客戶運營的項目所產(chǎn)生的溫室氣體排放量:
o 通過優(yōu)化運營和提高能效,集團擬在 2030 年前將其水務(wù)業(yè)務(wù)的排放量減少 40%。
o 集團擬在 2030 年前將其固廢業(yè)務(wù)的排放量減少 25% (不包括廢轉(zhuǎn)能業(yè)務(wù))。
o 集團擬通過創(chuàng)新提升其廢轉(zhuǎn)能業(yè)務(wù)的環(huán)?冃В集團將在其研發(fā)預(yù)算中追加4000萬歐元的投入,專門用于碳捕集和封存(CCS)項目。
- 改造集團最具脆弱性的項目,使其能夠適應(yīng)氣候變化帶來的影響:集團承諾從現(xiàn)在起至2027年,通過既定和新投資的行動方案,為其所有最高優(yōu)先級和最具脆弱性的項目設(shè)施開展適應(yīng)氣候變化的改造。
(二) 保護生物多樣性
為減少其業(yè)務(wù)對生態(tài)環(huán)境產(chǎn)生的影響,集團承諾采取行動,以應(yīng)對由“生物多樣性和生態(tài)系統(tǒng)服務(wù)政府間科學(xué)政策平臺”(IPBES)確定的生物多樣性喪失的五個直接驅(qū)動因素:
- 對抗土壤退化:集團承諾從現(xiàn)在起到2027年,每年將其運營的土壤修復(fù)面積翻番。
- 資源利用和過度開發(fā):從現(xiàn)在起到2027年,集團將在其所有新訂立的飲用水供應(yīng)合同中提出一項節(jié)水計劃,旨在節(jié)約高達10% 的供水量。對于缺水地區(qū),集團還計劃在其開展的飲用水供應(yīng)業(yè)務(wù)中全方位落實節(jié)水計劃。針對固廢管理,集團計劃進一步完善其設(shè)施的固廢分類工作。
- 氣候變化:見集團的氣候承諾部分。
- 污染:從現(xiàn)在起到2027年,集團擁有或經(jīng)營的所有項目場地都將停止使用植物檢疫產(chǎn)品。同時,集團所有新簽的污水處理合同將盡可能包含清除微塑料和微量污染物的解決方案。
- 外來物種入侵:從現(xiàn)在起到2027年,集團將在其所有修復(fù)及景觀美化業(yè)務(wù)中系統(tǒng)性地使用本地物種。
(三) 社會責(zé)任
集團與合作伙伴和客戶共同承諾:尋求社會民生和經(jīng)濟發(fā)展之間的平衡,并擴大其業(yè)務(wù)活動的積極影響,尤其是在以下領(lǐng)域:
- 在職業(yè)安全和健康領(lǐng)域保持“零”嚴重事故的目標。
- 聯(lián)合各地社區(qū)促進本地就業(yè)和發(fā)展,為負責(zé)任的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展作出貢獻,具體措施包括:
o 提高本地企業(yè)在集團供應(yīng)商中的占比;
o 從現(xiàn)在起到2027年,通過集團的社會整合項目每年造福5000人;
o 增加用于包容性組織的支出占比,例如優(yōu)先雇用弱勢群體的組織。
- 鼓勵員工的發(fā)展和參與:繼2022年邁出第一步,即將員工持股比例提高至公司股本的3%之后,集團將在2029年前將員工持股比例進一步提高至10%。此外,集團也為自身設(shè)定了目標,即從2023 年起,每年為 80%的員工提供培訓(xùn)機會。
集團將在所有業(yè)務(wù)條線和經(jīng)營區(qū)域內(nèi)落實上述承諾,并以集團層面堅實的治理框架為配套。集團執(zhí)委會將負責(zé)監(jiān)督路線圖的實施,而集團股東將通過由股東代表每季度組成的一個企業(yè)社會責(zé)任委員會監(jiān)督路線圖的部署。集團將在其非財務(wù)業(yè)績年報的框架內(nèi)編制對路線圖的年度審議報告,其中包括由獨立第三方機構(gòu)出具的對集團主要承諾落實的審計意見。
關(guān)于蘇伊士
面對日益嚴峻的環(huán)境挑戰(zhàn),160多年來,蘇伊士集團一直致力于提供保障和改善民生的基礎(chǔ)性服務(wù),并憑借其富有韌性和創(chuàng)新性的解決方案,為客戶提供水務(wù)和固廢服務(wù)。集團在40個國家的44000名員工積極賦能客戶,為客戶在資產(chǎn)和服務(wù)的全生命周期內(nèi)創(chuàng)造價值,并與最終用戶共同推動生態(tài)轉(zhuǎn)型。2021年,蘇伊士集團為全球6600萬人生產(chǎn)飲用水,為3300多萬人提供環(huán)衛(wèi)服務(wù),通過污水和固廢處理轉(zhuǎn)化生產(chǎn)3.6太瓦時的能源,并避免了380萬噸二氧化碳的排放。2021年,蘇伊士集團的營收為75億歐元。更多資訊請瀏覽官網(wǎng): www.suez.com 或關(guān)注推特 @suez.
SUEZ unveils its new sustainability goals
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· SUEZ has unveiled today its new sustainable development goals for 2027 and beyond, through 24 commitments revolving around three pillars: climate, biodiversity and social responsibility.
· In terms of climate commitments, the Group is developing a global approach across three levers:
1) Contributing to decarbonising energy: reaching electrical self-sufficiency in Europe in 2023 and throughout the duration of the plan; between now and 2030, raising the proportion of renewable energy as a share of the Group’s total electricity consumption to 70% worldwide and 100% in Europe, compared to the current average of 24%.
2) Reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as those of its value chain: reduction of emissions from its water activities by almost 40% by 2030 and from its waste activities by more than 25% by 2030 (excluding energy from waste).
3) Adapting top-priority and vulnerable sites operated by the Group to the effects of climate change.
· On the social front, the Group wishes to contribute to a responsible economy through employment and local development within communities, as well as encourage the development and engagement of its people through employee share ownership.
· Alongside the climate and social responsibility pillars, the Group is stepping up its initiatives in the field of biodiversity, with 10 specific commitments.
· A solid governance framework has been created through 43 performance indicators dedicated to monitoring the implementation of these commitments. All the indicators will be shared once a year to publicly communicate on the progress made by the Group with respect to these commitments.
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Sabrina Soussan, Chairman and CEO of SUEZ, says: “With this new roadmap, we are reaffirming the central role of sustainable development in the SUEZ strategy. SUEZ is today setting out its pledges with a fresh new ambition around climate change policy and social responsibility, also including ambitious goals in terms of preservation of biodiversity and natural resources.”
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Through its business activities in water cycle management and waste recycling and recovery, SUEZ plays a key role in addressing communities’ sustainability issues.
Under its new corporate strategy presented in September 2022, SUEZ wishes to go even further by setting ambitious goals on each of the three pillars. For the very first time, SUEZ is making equally strong commitments in each of the three areas of climate, biodiversity and the preservation of social responsibility.
The Group consequently makes the following commitments:
a) Climate
- Contribute to decarbonising energy, by:
o Increasing the proportion of renewable energy as a share of the Group’s total consumption, to 70% worldwide and 100% in Europe by 2030, compared to the current average of 24%, by harnessing its own power generation capacities and new renewable energy supply contracts (solar and wind power).
o Increasing electricity generation on the Group’s own sites with the ambitious target of becoming self-sufficient for electricity in 2023 in Europe, and to remain as such throughout the plan.
o Contributing to communities’ low-carbon transition, by enabling communities to benefit from a locally sourced and renewable energy generated by the Group’s waste management activities and, furthermore, by reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by its own energy consumption.
- Reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its own activities and from the sites that the Group operated on behalf of its clients:
o Cut the emissions of its Water activities by 40% by 2030, by improving the operational and energy efficiency of its operational process.
o Cut the emissions of its Waste activities by 25% by 2030 (excluding energy from waste).
o Improve, through innovation, the environmental performances of its energy from waste activities: the Group will invest an extra 40 million euros in its R&D programme dedicated to carbon capture and storage (CCS).
- Lastly, adapt the most exposed sites to the consequences of climate change: the Group undertakes to cover 100% of its high-priority and vulnerable sites between now and 2027 through an established and funded action plan.
b) Conservation of biodiversity
To reduce the impact of its activities, the Group is making commitments that address the five direct drivers of biodiversity loss as identified by IPBES:
- Combating soil artificialization: the Group pledges to double each year up to 2027 the restored land that it operates.
- Resource use and over-exploitation: between now and 2027 in all its new drinking water supply contracts, the Group will propose a water saving programme aiming to save up to 10% of water supplied. The Group also aims to ensure that 100% of drinking water activities in water stressed zones are covered by a water saving plan. In terms of waste management, the Group intends to improve waste sorting in its facilities.
- Climate change: see Group’s commitments on climate.
- Pollution: between now and 2027, the Group will stop using phytosanitary products on all the sites that it owns or operates, and will propose whenever possible, in all its new wastewater treatment contracts, solutions to eliminate microplastics and micropollutants.
- Invasive exotic species: between now and 2027, the Group will systematically use local species in all its restoration and landscaping operations.
c) Social responsibility
With its partners and clients, the Group undertakes to seek a balance between human and economic development, as well as increase the positive impact of its activities, in particular in the following areas:
- Meet the target of zero severe accidents in the area of occupational health and safety.
- Contribute to a responsible economy through employment and local development within communities, specifically:
o by increasing the proportion of local companies among the Group’s suppliers,
o by allowing 5,000 people per year by 2027 to benefit from our social integration programs,
o by increasing the proportion of expenditure channelled towards inclusive organisations, for example those which employ disadvantaged people.
- Encourage the development and engagement of its employees: following a first step in 2022 which took employee share ownership to 3% of the company’s share capital, the Group will increase the employee shareholding to 10% by 2029. Furthermore, the Group has set itself the goal, as of 2023, of offering 80% of its employees an annual training opportunity.
These commitments will be implemented across all the Group’s activities and in all the geographies in which it operates. It will be supported by a solid governance framework at Group level. The Executive Committee will oversee the delivery of the roadmap, and the Group’s shareholders will monitor its deployment by means of a quarterly CSR committee made up of representatives. Within the framework of the annual non-financial performance statement of the Group, an annual review of the roadmap will be prepared including an audit by an independent third party of the main commitments.
About SUEZ:
Faced with growing environmental challenges, for more than 160 years, SUEZ has been acting to deliver essential services that protect and improve the quality of life. SUEZ enables its customers to provide access to water and waste services, with resilient and innovative solutions. With its 44 000 employees present in 40 countries, the Group also enables its customers to create value over the entire lifecycle of their assets and services, and to drive their ecological transition, together with their end-users. In 2021, SUEZ produced drinking water for 66 million people worldwide and sanitation services for more than 33 million people. The Group generates 3.6 TWh of energy from waste and wastewater per year and avoided the emission of 3.8 million tons of CO2. In 2021, SUEZ generated revenues of 7.5 billion euros. For more information: www.suez.com/ Twitter @suez
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