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Annex III -
Reducing our environmental footprint through eco-efficient operations
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Worldline
2016 Registration Document
Green initiatives implemented
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embarked on a series of local and global green initiatives in 2016
to raise environmental awareness:
With the environment considered a major issue, Worldline
vegetarian meal on Thursdays;
A weekly “veggie” day has been introduced in Belgium,
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resulting in 50% of Worldline’s employees eating a healthy
aim is to teach employees how to encourage biodiversity,
introduce them to beekeeping, protect the ecosystem and
produce Worldline’s own-label honey;
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
started at the Blois and Seclin sites. In both countries, the
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
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launched an ambitious conservation scheme for sites in
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
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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;
lights.
Various steps have been taken in the buildings to reduce
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energy consumption: more flexible ways of cooling rooms
depending on their location, renewing equipment,
virtualization, sleep modes for computers and energy-saving
Educating and engaging our employees
A.5.5
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
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
The CSR team designed different infographics about key
that employees can perform in order to reduce these values.
This “Worldline’s Environmental Engagement” posters were put
environmental challenges of the Company like the energy
consumption, CO
2
emissions, waste production and water
consumption where it was highlighted the different values that
each country represents and just down which where the actions
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?
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Who are the stakeholders of the Company?
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Sustainability in the IT sector;
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Presentation on the Atos group’s sustainability program.
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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