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CAPGEMINI: PEOPLE, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) AND BUSINESS ETHICS
3.3 Managing our environmental impact
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Registration Document 2016 — Capgemini
Managing climate risk
3.3.3
Group for the first time, to complement those already in place in
remain focused on reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and in
2016 we set environmental targets for the whole Capgemini
Capgemini recognizes the importance of climate change and our
responsibility as a business to mitigate our own impacts. We
our larger entities.
only a future inevitability but are already being experienced. As
well as minimizing our own contribution to climate change and
Climate change impacts and global temperature increases are not
We have a number of mechanisms in place to identify, control and
manage climate-related risks, including:
means, for example, ensuring business continuity and supporting
the wellbeing of our people in the face of extreme weather events.
working with clients to enable carbon reductions, we need to
ensure we have the capability to adapt to climate change. This
what “impacts” these have (or could have) legally and
commercially for Capgemini, the risks associated with each
Register”, which is reviewed annually. This identifies key
environmental “aspects” (such as energy use or flooding),
all ISO 14001 certified entities have an “Aspects and Impacts
1.
and key mitigation steps taken;
India, with a focus on key assets and operations, supply chain
complete a Climate Change Risk Assessment. This looked at
the key risks and opportunities for Capgemini in the UK and
in 2014, we commissioned
NGO Forum for the Future
to
2.
risk and on the impacts within key sectors (such as retail and
the public sector) which Capgemini serves;
change mitigation, energy security and the continued need for
Capgemini to reduce its GHG emissions to our stakeholders.
the completion of a materiality assessment (refer to
3.
section 3.1.3) also highlighted the importance of climate
climate change risk into our corporate risk management. The
focus will be on evaluating climate change hazards (such as
To build further on this, we are currently in the early stages of
developing a Group-wide approach which will further integrate
clients and our industry and considering how our services can
support these.
assets, client workplace locations, suppliers and clients. We will
also be identifying new climate-related opportunities from our
shortages) and assessing our capacity to adapt to these. The
evaluation will assess the vulnerability to climate change of our
extreme weather events, changing weather patterns and water
in the
CDP Climate Change disclosure
, placing us in the top 23%
Our commitment to managing our climate risk effectively
continues to be recognized externally, this year with a score of A-
of companies in our sector.
Our environmental performance
3.3.4
Overall emissions
In 2015, Capgemini’s total GHG emissions for the entire Group
were 527,529 tCO
2
e. Comparison with the 2015 restated data
shows that total emissions have decreased very slightly by 0.5%,
in spite of a significant 4.4% increase in average headcount during
energy-related emissions per head of 6.6% and a reduction of our
travel emissions per head of 3.2%.
head in 2016 (from 2.98 tons CO
2
e per head to 2.84 tons of CO
2
e
per head
(1)
. Primarily this has been driven by a reduction in our
2016. As a result we have already made progress against our
headline Group target, with a 4.7% reduction in emissions per
Emissions per head by region
-4%
-11%
+8%
-2%
-6%
-4%
-8%
+9%
-6%
-5%
2015
2016
0
1
2
3
5
4
6
North
America
United Kingdom
& Ireland
Nordic
countries
Benelux
Germany &
Central Europe
France
Southern
Europe
Asia-Pacific
& Latin America
India
Total
sections of this report.
using the December 2015 head count as compared to the December 2016 headcount. As a consequence, the headcount stats here may vary slightly from the absolute figures quoted in other
For the purposes of measuring GHG emissions per head, an average headcount over the year has been calculated for both 2015 and 2016, which represents a more accurate calculation than
(1)