Worldline - Registration Document 2016

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Corporate and social responsibility report Annex III - Reducing our environmental footprint through eco-efficient operations

outsource with the Company. environmental challenges. In particular, Worldline carbon neutral services enable IT intensive clients like banks to drastically reduce their scope 3 emissions for the IT solutions they The Company is also aware of the business and environmental opportunities coming from the challenges that its clients face from consuming energy and emitting greenhouse gases. This is why Worldline constantly innovates and delivers digital solutions (smart solutions, green datacenters and carbon neutral hosting) that help its clients to tackle both their business and Concerning the specific risks and its relation with the main environmental challenges, Worldline monitors them through complementary tools and processes: the Enterprise Risk Management Process (monitoring main risks that can impair the achievement of the Group’s objectives); the Book of Internal control (BIC) and the Legal Risk Mapping. Some of the main risks and the way to manage them are: chosen on sites where there is not major risk of extreme supply through extreme weather events: In order to manage this, Worldline datacenters’ location has been Risk on manage to data centers or disruption of power ●

weather events. In addition, datacenters count with diesel emergency power aggregates that are tested every month having fuel autonomy for some days and daily control of systems are made and protected by security guards; compliance is essential, along with the impact of any new regulations. Therefore, compliance with national and local regulatory requirements is audited by an outside company and is of vital importance to obtain ISO 14001 certification; energy efficiency of the datacenters: environmental Tightening of regulatory requirements concerning the ● Rising energy prices: long-term contracts have been signed ● via the Atos group regarding the energy supply and are controlled by the Top Management and the Procurement department; technological race for ICT applications that reduce the energy use of customers and the public: Optimizations have Reputation damage and failure to complete in the ● been done in the datacenters like replacing when needed the components by more efficient ones, the use of adiabatic cooling and regulated fans to tune the power according the cooling needs among others. process externally verified has been in place since 2008; trains and taxis). For these emissions a sound reporting Part B “Other scope 3 emissions”: regroups other categories b) not under Worldline direct control or influence. The most significant emissions are coming from categories 1 and 2. related to their low-carbon strategy. regulatory context. The Company ensures compliance with the new obligations of the article 173 of the Energy Transition Act for green growth, which implies that companies report greenhouse gas emissions throughout their value chain and the measures Worldline’s carbon footprint approach is in line with the Regarding Scope 3 emissions, Worldline emitted 340,954 tons of CO 2 equivalent in 2016. Emissions of the scope 3 A category described above represent 2,614 tons of CO 2 eq and those of the Protocol Scope 3 evaluator. For these emissions, estimations were made using the GHG travel of employees or business travel and energy (scope 3A). The most significant emissions items for Worldline are the purchase of goods and services, the use of sold products, the Emissions in the purchasing category and Energy/business travel category accounted for more than 2/3 of the total scope and were estimated at 435,607 tons eq CO 2 for all Worldline scope 3 B represent 338,340 tons CO 2 eq.

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strategy [GRI 305-4] Evaluation of our carbon footprint and actions set to a low carbon

develop the confidence of its clients, investors and stakeholders at large. Reducing the carbon emissions is key to limit the impacts of the Company’s activities, but also to improve its efficiency and to and has contributed to the Atos group’s strategy to reduce a -50% carbon reduction between 2012 and 2015 in tons of CO 2 /€ million revenue. Since 2014, Worldline closely monitors its own carbon emissions fifteen different categories. For operational purpose, the scope 3 has been regrouped on: Worldline calculates its carbon footprint using the most widely adopted standard: the Green House Gas emissions protocol. As defined in this protocol, the emissions are sub categorized between scopes 1, 2 and 3 and the scope 3 is subdivided in Worldline main challenges and activities under operational control or direct influence. The categories include emissions from energy for offices, data centers and travel (planes, cars, Part A “Operational scope”: regroups categories covering a) Calculation of scope 3 emissions

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