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ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIETAL INFORMATION − HUMAN RESOURCES Act positively within communities and strengthen dialogue

them in 2017 (45% in 2010). It is increasingly identified as the consequence of human activity (77% compared with 73% the previous year). 85% of employees also believe that it is possible to fight against climate change (up 4 points). Nearly all employees declare that they for the use of renewables (88% for wind power and 96% for hydropower), but also for nuclear power (79%). Lastly, a large majority of employees declare that they are hostile to fossil fuels: 79% are against the use of oil, 83% are against shale gas and 90% are against coal. For nearly all the employees questioned (96%), energy distribution companies have a role to play in environmental protection. Moreover, 85% expect them to promote energy savings. 65% of them declare that they have already heard of corporate social responsibility commitments in their work, while 66% of them have heard of energy efficiency. Room for improvement: the concept that employees encounter the least is that of the circular economy (20%). EDF integrates three corporate responsibility criteria into variable compensation mechanisms when calculating employee profit-sharing, up to 40% of overall profit-sharing. For 2017-2019, it used the following criteria: a social criterion relating to participation in e-learning training in health and ■ safety, accounting for 20% of total profit-sharing (target of 3,500 e-learning courses in 2017); two “Sustainable Development and Digital Development” criteria: one concerns ■ the reduction of print jobs on the printers connected to the network (reduction target of 15% in 2017), and the other concerns the increased use of remote connection to replace physical connection (increase target of 20% in 2017), each accounting for 10% of total profit-sharing. For the general public 3.5.8.2 The issues of energy, the environment and sustainable development are often not well known by the Company’s various external stakeholders. This sometimes leads to less fluid dialogue, the formation of pre-conceived ideas or even, for EDF, unsuitable practices in terms of electricity consumption. That is why the Group contributes to informing and raising awareness in these areas, in particular with a special focus attention to young people. The Group, in connection with the CAP 2030 strategy, has focused for the past two years on raising the awareness of external audiences to its corporate social responsibility and the six areas covered by its Corporate Social Responsibility Goals: fight against climate change, human development, energy efficiency, energy poverty, dialogue and consultation, and biodiversity. These six themes have been included in the strategic communication plan for 2018-2020. Climate change and local actions An information campaign to prove the issue of climate change and the solutions that EDF and its subsidiaries need to implement to reduce carbon in the economy was continued in 2017 on the internet and relayed on the social networks (EDF Facebook and Twitter accounts, opinion leader networks specialising in sustainable development, etc.). Over and above the raising of awareness on the issues of climate change themselves, over 60 “EDF group solutions for the climate” which explain concretely and instructively how the Group reduces its own CO 2 emissions, steps up the development of renewable energies, helps its customers to consume better and less, and supports the energy transition of cities and regions, were published on-line. In France, this operation was supported by the continued cycle of “Energy Climate Encounters” started during the COP 21, where national and international experts share their approach towards climate issues and energy transition with targeted audiences (major companies, local authorities, government representatives, etc.). Three conferences were organised on the themes “Energy transition: from the why to the how?”, “Circular economy and climate change: performance obligations”, “The new Paris Climate Plan: how to build a fair, resilient and carbon neutral city?”. Each conference is preceded by an encounter with e-opinion leaders specialising in these fields, to increase the impact of this action. Lastly, the heart of EDF’s advertising communication to the general public in France was based on climate issues and the relationship between the choice of a mix primarily based on nuclear and renewable energies and generation that comprises 97% of zero carbon emissions.

Themes addressed in the SD community in 2017

6% Fuel poverty

Waste and circular economy

7%

Dialogue and consultation

9%

Climate change – CO 2 – Energy transition

10% Energy efficiency

47%

Sustainable development training

10%

Biodiversity

11%

The topics discussed are either “external” ones (the government’s 2017 Energy Climate Plan, the energy transition law, or the COP 23 in Bonn) or “internal” (the new “solutions for the climate” developed by the EDF group to fight against climate change, and the showcasing of the Group media: “Performance” documents, focus on Group CO 2 emissions, etc.). The community is also used to inform about events in which the Group’s companies and business lines take part each year. For example: La Fête de la nature: EDF has been a partner of this event for over ten years now. ■ It has enabled the Company to raise the awareness of its employees to the challenges of biodiversity. In 2017, a large number of EDF sites and business lines took part in this event. (see section 3.5.8.2 "For the general public"); the EWWR – The European Week for Waste Reduction organised in France by ■ the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME). In 2017, the Group’s divisions and business lines organised about thirty events for employees and service providers to raise their awareness about eco-gestures to better manage waste, reduce waste production and reuse or recycle waste; they reinforced the awareness of employees on the “waste” issue. Tiru signed a ■ partnership with the association Run Eco Team to raise the awareness of employees to producing less waste and reusing the waste produced. At Luminus, managers took advantage of team meetings to discuss topics related to social and environmental issues (for example, “the 12 good habits to adopt to avoid wastage"; “how to sort your waste for a better environment”); the EDF R&D Department organised workshops to teach employees to reduce and recover waste; the EDF Nuclear and Thermal Plant Division has developed and deployed learning tools about waste for its employees and service providers. It also organised workshops about the circular economy and raised the awareness of participants to environmental impacts and waste from sites. Measuring the impact of training and awareness raising actions The impacts of training and awareness raising on sustainable development are measured annually through an internal survey of over 3,000 employees of EDF and Enedis. Since 2014, nine out of ten employees declare that they are concerned by sustainable development; note the 4 percentage point increase in those who feel “very” concerned in 2017, bringing the percentage to 41%. The results of the survey follow on from the basic trends observed since 2010: increasing concerns of employees over climate change, even considered as “very worrying” by 65% of

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