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D
Corporate Responsibility
D.5
Managing the corporate environmental footprint and tackling climate change
Atos
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Registration Document 2016
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D
Environmental Challenges
D.5.3
[G4-EN15] [G4-EN16] [G4-EN17] [G4-EN18] [G4-EN19]
Main action plans and levers
D.5.3.1
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;
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processes, entities, operations, Business Units and Divisions;
involve internal functions to integrate the challenges into
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program;
environmental impacts through the ISO 14001 certification
monitor main office sites’ and strategic datacenters’
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IT sector;
set ambitious objectives about carbon, leading the way of the
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services carbon neutral;
offset 100% of our datacenters’ energy to make our hosting
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consumption;
take concrete steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce
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it is practical;
switch to renewable or decarbonized energy sources wherever
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encourage low-carbon travel and new ways of working;
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Atos operates;
share our ambition with employees in all the countries where
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objectives, progress and achievements.
publicly communicate about climate and environmental
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Carbon emissions and climate change
D.5.3.2
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
intervals.
high-intensity activities will be considered at regular time
acquisitions with very different intensity profiles (e.g. new
possibility to realign its baseline to accommodate new
new absolute emissions data available (e.g. > 15%) and/or new
industrial activities versus services). Triggers such as the % of
countries, and new additional production capacities with their
account new companies joining the Group, new activities in new
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,
associated absolute emissions. Similarly, Atos needs to keep the
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
long-term CO
2
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;
[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
high and the results must be considered as orders of magnitude.
all cases, in terms of emissions, the level of uncertainty remains
sold products” (circa 20%). These emissions have been
goods” (circa 70%) and the downstream category 11 “Use of
categories 1 and 2 and sectorial surveys for the categories 11. In
estimated using the GHG Protocol Scope 3 Evaluator for the
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
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