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CAPGEMINI: PEOPLE, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AND BUSINESS ETHICS
3.3 Managing our environmental impact
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Managing our environmental impact 3.3
We are committed to the continual reduction of our environmental
impacts, specifically energy use from offices and data centers, our
business travel and waste. Our drive to improve our own efficiency
generates innovative thinking in the business, bringing operational
improvements as well as cost reductions – all delivering value for
our stakeholders.
Digital sustainability can meet these challenges.
intensifying. We believe that companies like Capgemini have a
critical role to play beyond their own operations in addressing how
as the population and energy demands rise, resources are pushed
to the planet’s boundary and the impacts of climate change are
The need for efficiencies and innovation has never been so great:
We know our products and services will play a vital role in
already see this happening in the acceleration of the Internet of
Things (IOT), and the development of smart cities, enabled
supporting the transition to a low carbon economy. We can
through new technology solutions pioneered by Capgemini and
others.
Group environmental policy 3.3.1
entities in support of our Global Environmental Sustainability
program. It reinforces our commitment to the continual
The Group Environmental Policy, endorsed by Chaiman and CEO
Paul Hermelin, sets out the measures required by all Capgemini
waste management. The Policy can be found at:
improvement of environmental performance across our global
operations, specifically in the areas of energy, business travel and
Our environmental management approach 3.3.2
Advancing our environmental management
system
Capgemini entities in driving results. By streamlining our internal
accordance with ISO 14001. We have seen how this structured
approach towards continuous environmental improvement helps
Since 2009, a growing number of Capgemini entities have
implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS) in
the necessary corporate and local processes and tools that make
it possible to implement ISO 14001 and respond to revisions to
and encourage an increasing number of Capgemini entities
towards certification. We designed a Group EMS platform with all
capabilities on environmental management and establishing an
Environmental Center of Excellence, we have been able to support
complimented for the robustness of our EMS platform by external
auditors.
the standard in a very efficient and effective way, from the
perspective of both time and budget. We are regularly
and our IGATE operations in India and North America are now
certified under ISO 14001. Our certification now covers
Throughout 2016, Capgemini continued to extend the scope of its
environmental management systems with Capgemini Germany
13 countries and 73% of our operations as measured by
headcount.
the end of 2020.
We have a target to ensure all Capgemini entities with a
headcount of over 1,000 employees are ISO 14001 certified by
Capgemini’s material operational environmental impact results
water consumption and fugitive air-conditioning emissions are
measured and reported as part of our sustainability accounting
result of business-related travel and from the disposal of office
waste. These impacts, together with smaller impacts such as from
from our use of energy (in both offices and data centers), as a
are not currently considered significantly material to our operations
and consequently are not discussed further in this report.
and reporting processes. Other environmental impacts, such as
those on biodiversity and noise pollution, while regularly reviewed,