苏伊士发布新的可持续发展目标
· 今天，苏伊士集团发布其面向2027年及之后的新的可持续发展目标。这些目标围绕气候、生物多样性和社会责任三大支柱，共包含24项承诺。
· 在气候承诺方面，集团正在制定一套适用于全球业务的方案。该方案包含三个重要的着力点：
1) 为能源脱碳作出贡献：在2023年及整个规划期内，实现集团欧洲业务用电的自给自足；在2030年前将可再生能源占集团能源消耗总量的比例从目前24%的平均水平提高到全球业务70%、欧洲业务100%。
2) 减少集团业务及其价值链上温室气体（GHG）的排放总量：在2030年前将集团水务业务的排放量减少近40%，在2030年前将固废业务的排放量减少至少25%（不包括废转能业务）。
3) 改造集团运营的最高优先级和最具脆弱性的项目，使其适应气候变化的影响。
· 在社会责任方面，集团希望联合各地社区促进本地就业和发展，为负责任的经济发展作出贡献，并通过员工持股计划鼓励员工的发展和参与。
· 除了气候和社会责任两大支柱之外，集团还在生物多样性领域加大投入力度，并就此提出了10项具体的承诺。
· 集团制定了43项绩效指标，并建立了一套坚实的治理框架，专门用于监督上述承诺的履行。集团每年将公开披露所有指标，以报告其在上述承诺方面所取得的进展。
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苏伊士集团董事长兼首席执行官苏冰岚（Sabrina Soussan）表示：“通过发布新的路线图，我们重申了可持续发展在苏伊士发展战略中的核心地位。如今，苏伊士已在气候变化政策和社会责任方面提出了新的承诺，其中还包括生物多样性和自然资源保护方面雄心勃勃的目标。”
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苏伊士通过开展水的循环管理以及固废资源管理业务，在解决社区的可持续发展问题方面发挥着关键的作用。
按照2022 年 9 月提出的新企业发展战略，苏伊士决意迈出更大的步伐，进一步为三大支柱制定雄心勃勃的目标。这是苏伊士首次在气候、生物多样性保护和社会责任三大领域做出同等坚定的承诺。
集团做出的承诺具体如下：
（一） 气候
- 拟采取以下措施，推动能源脱碳：
o 提高可再生能源占集团能源消耗总量的比例：利用集团自有发电装机容量和新的可再生能源（太阳能和风能）供应合同，力争在2030年前将可再生能源占集团能源消耗总量的比例从目前24%的平均水平提高到全球业务70%、欧洲业务100%。
o 增加集团自有设施的发电量：集团的雄心目标是在2023年实现欧洲业务用电的自给自足，并在规划期内长期保持这一自给率。
o 为社区的低碳转型作出贡献：集团将通过其固废管理业务供应本地生产的可再生能源，造福社区，并进一步减少自身能源消耗所产生的温室气体排放。
- 减少集团自身业务活动以及代表客户运营的项目所产生的温室气体排放量：
o 通过优化运营和提高能效，集团拟在 2030 年前将其水务业务的排放量减少 40%。
o 集团拟在 2030 年前将其固废业务的排放量减少 25% （不包括废转能业务）。
o 集团拟通过创新提升其废转能业务的环保绩效：集团将在其研发预算中追加4000万欧元的投入，专门用于碳捕集和封存（CCS）项目。
- 改造集团最具脆弱性的项目，使其能够适应气候变化带来的影响：集团承诺从现在起至2027年，通过既定和新投资的行动方案，为其所有最高优先级和最具脆弱性的项目设施开展适应气候变化的改造。
（二） 保护生物多样性
为减少其业务对生态环境产生的影响，集团承诺采取行动，以应对由“生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台”（IPBES）确定的生物多样性丧失的五个直接驱动因素：
- 对抗土壤退化：集团承诺从现在起到2027年，每年将其运营的土壤修复面积翻番。
- 资源利用和过度开发：从现在起到2027年，集团将在其所有新订立的饮用水供应合同中提出一项节水计划，旨在节约高达10% 的供水量。对于缺水地区，集团还计划在其开展的饮用水供应业务中全方位落实节水计划。针对固废管理，集团计划进一步完善其设施的固废分类工作。
- 气候变化：见集团的气候承诺部分。
- 污染：从现在起到2027年，集团拥有或经营的所有项目场地都将停止使用植物检疫产品。同时，集团所有新签的污水处理合同将尽可能包含清除微塑料和微量污染物的解决方案。
- 外来物种入侵：从现在起到2027年，集团将在其所有修复及景观美化业务中系统性地使用本地物种。
（三） 社会责任
集团与合作伙伴和客户共同承诺：寻求社会民生和经济发展之间的平衡，并扩大其业务活动的积极影响，尤其是在以下领域：
- 在职业安全和健康领域保持“零”严重事故的目标。
- 联合各地社区促进本地就业和发展，为负责任的经济发展作出贡献，具体措施包括：
o 提高本地企业在集团供应商中的占比；
o 从现在起到2027年，通过集团的社会整合项目每年造福5000人；
o 增加用于包容性组织的支出占比，例如优先雇用弱势群体的组织。
- 鼓励员工的发展和参与：继2022年迈出第一步，即将员工持股比例提高至公司股本的3%之后，集团将在2029年前将员工持股比例进一步提高至10%。此外，集团也为自身设定了目标，即从2023 年起，每年为 80%的员工提供培训机会。
集团将在所有业务条线和经营区域内落实上述承诺，并以集团层面坚实的治理框架为配套。集团执委会将负责监督路线图的实施，而集团股东将通过由股东代表每季度组成的一个企业社会责任委员会监督路线图的部署。集团将在其非财务业绩年报的框架内编制对路线图的年度审议报告，其中包括由独立第三方机构出具的对集团主要承诺落实的审计意见。
关于苏伊士
面对日益严峻的环境挑战，160多年来，苏伊士集团一直致力于提供保障和改善民生的基础性服务，并凭借其富有韧性和创新性的解决方案，为客户提供水务和固废服务。集团在40个国家的44000名员工积极赋能客户，为客户在资产和服务的全生命周期内创造价值，并与最终用户共同推动生态转型。2021年，苏伊士集团为全球6600万人生产饮用水，为3300多万人提供环卫服务，通过污水和固废处理转化生产3.6太瓦时的能源，并避免了380万吨二氧化碳的排放。2021年，苏伊士集团的营收为75亿欧元。更多资讯请浏览官网： www.suez.com 或关注推特 @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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