Atos - Registration Document 2016

D Corporate Responsibility

D.5 Managing the corporate environmental footprint and tackling climate change

Environmental Challenges

D.5.3

Main action plans and levers D.5.3.1

[G4-EN15] [G4-EN16] [G4-EN17] [G4-EN18] [G4-EN19]

services carbon neutral; offset 100% of our datacenters’ energy to make our hosting • consumption; take concrete steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce • it is practical; switch to renewable or decarbonized energy sources wherever • encourage low-carbon travel and new ways of working; • Atos operates; share our ambition with employees in all the countries where • objectives, progress and achievements. publicly communicate about climate and environmental • [G4-EN15], [G4-EN16], [G4-EN17] and [EN18] Absolute CO 2 emissions Due to the Group’s acquisition policy (new companies, new associated absolute emissions…), the absolute carbon emissions activities in new countries, additional production capacities and can hardly be compared from year to year. emissions, Scope 2 represented 40% and Scope 3 - part A activities worldwide. Scope 1 represented 12% of the overall represented 48%. (Operational Scope 3) amounted to 253,000 tons CO 2 , for all In 2016, Atos’ emissions covering Scopes 1, 2 and 3 - part A datacenters represented 48% of the overall emissions, the sub-categorized by business activities and in 2016, the offices 29% and travel 23%. Emissions covering these Scopes 1, 2 and 3 - part A are also 3 emissions”, the most significant categories representing circa In 2016, within the Scope 3 – part B covering the “Other Scope the upstream categories 1 “Goods and services” and 2 “Capital 90% of the total Group’s emissions (all scopes combined) were high and the results must be considered as orders of magnitude. all cases, in terms of emissions, the level of uncertainty remains categories 1 and 2 and sectorial surveys for the categories 11. In estimated using the GHG Protocol Scope 3 Evaluator for the progress is done through EcoVadis, as described in D.4.2. to Atos’ supply chain. The monitoring of Atos’ supply chain’s CSR The emissions linked to Scope 3 categories 1 and 2 are related sold products” (circa 20%). These emissions have been goods” (circa 70%) and the downstream category 11 “Use of

attention of the senior management and have been transformed Atos’ main environmental challenges have mobilized the into specific action plans: focus the environmental program on these main challenges first; • processes, entities, operations, Business Units and Divisions; involve internal functions to integrate the challenges into • program; environmental impacts through the ISO 14001 certification monitor main office sites’ and strategic datacenters’ • IT sector; set ambitious objectives about carbon, leading the way of the • during the Investors Day on November 8, as described in 2015, Atos took new public commitment at the end of 2016 Responsibility report. section 5.1 and in Environment Chapter of the Corporate After great achievement in carbon reduction between 2008 and growth rates, have direct impacts on its carbon absolute and The Group’s fast changes and both its internal and external rapid Atos needs to keep the flexibility to adjust its targets to take into intensity emissions. To stay in line with the reality of the Group, countries, and new additional production capacities with their account new companies joining the Group, new activities in new intervals. high-intensity activities will be considered at regular time new absolute emissions data available (e.g. > 15%) and/or new industrial activities versus services). Triggers such as the % of for leadership on climate change. In this framework, Thierry and the “We Mean Business Coalition” to act and be recognized On the long term, Atos is part of the platform designed by CDP emission targets in line with the world effort to Breton, CEO of Atos, has endorsed four initiatives concerning engagement with stakeholders and public information. limit the rise of climate change below 1.5°C /2°C; carbon price; acquisitions with very different intensity profiles (e.g. new possibility to realign its baseline to accommodate new associated absolute emissions. Similarly, Atos needs to keep the long-term CO 2 Carbon emissions and climate change D.5.3.2

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