Worldline - Registration Document 2016

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

Green initiatives implemented

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aim is to teach employees how to encourage biodiversity, introduce them to beekeeping, protect the ecosystem and produce Worldline’s own-label honey; started at the Blois and Seclin sites. In both countries, the things they can do every day to reduce their own environmental footprint, as well as the Company’s. Worldline continues to remind its employees of the little ● Employees are reminded to think before printing, and to download boarding passes to their smartphones when traveling. Other reminders include drinking coffee out of mugs rather than disposable cups, and sharing PowerPoint files electronically rather than printing them out after meetings; Various steps have been taken in the buildings to reduce ● energy consumption: more flexible ways of cooling rooms depending on their location, renewing equipment, virtualization, sleep modes for computers and energy-saving

embarked on a series of local and global green initiatives in 2016 to raise environmental awareness: With the environment considered a major issue, Worldline A weekly “veggie” day has been introduced in Belgium, ● resulting in 50% of Worldline’s employees eating a healthy flowerbed will be planted. The next phase will include a vegetable garden, where volunteers will be able to grow organic produce. In France, beekeeping clubs have been pollinators. In 2016, four bee colonies were introduced into the garden in partnership with Beeodiversity. The garden is due to be extended in the spring of 2017, when a large Belgium and France. Over the past few years, the Brussels site has had a 1,500 m2 garden designed to attract a variety of species (flora and insects) and to raise employee awareness of conservation and the importance of To protect biodiversity, Worldline and its employees have ● launched an ambitious conservation scheme for sites in vegetarian meal on Thursdays; over all its sites. In addition, internal communications have also been made to share Worldline’s sustainability strategy. As an example, some of the initiatives implemented during 2016 were: its employees’ awareness on environmental topics and encourage them actively to adopt eco responsible behaviors that will allow the Company to reduce its environmental impact Worldline has put in place several initiatives in order to increase The CSR team designed different infographics about key environmental challenges of the Company like the energy consumption, CO 2 emissions, waste production and water reply to the CSR team with their own proposals. These posters were very well perceived by auditors and a new version of them will be deployed on 2017. in place around all the Company sites and employees could that employees can perform in order to reduce these values. This “Worldline’s Environmental Engagement” posters were put consumption where it was highlighted the different values that each country represents and just down which where the actions A.5.5

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Educating and engaging our employees

Worldline has organized an online training course entitled “Sustainability Improvement” which is available in English, French, Spanish and German. It consists of four sustainability modules: What is sustainability? ● Who are the stakeholders of the Company? ● Sustainability in the IT sector; ● Presentation on the Atos group’s sustainability program. ● than 80% of employees took part in the quiz. Worldline Belgium held its second “Sustainability Quiz” this year, to coincide with the European Week for Waste Reduction. The quiz consists of a dozen online questions about the targets we set and the steps we take to protect the environment. A group of volunteers concerned about the environment organized events in the lobby during the lunch break. Participants were given help with answering questions and played the “Recycling Game”, which involved putting waste in the correct bin. More

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