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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
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
Risk on manage to data centers or disruption of power
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supply through extreme weather events: In order to
manage this, Worldline datacenters’ location has been
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
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Rising energy prices: long-term contracts have been signed
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via the Atos group regarding the energy supply and are
controlled by the Top Management and the Procurement
department;
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.
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
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Overviewof themain actions carried out
A.5.3
strategy
[GRI 305-4]
Evaluation of our carbon footprint
A.5.3.1
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
Calculation of scope 3 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
process externally verified has been in place since 2008;
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,
trains and taxis). For these emissions a sound reporting
Part A “Operational scope”: regroups categories covering
a)
Protocol Scope 3 evaluator.
For these emissions, estimations were made using the GHG
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
scope 3 B represent 338,340 tons CO
2
eq.
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
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
activities at the global level.
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