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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
Business Travel Emissions by Type
0
50.000
100.000
150.000
200.000
2015
2016
+4%
-11%
+20%
Air
Car
Hotel
Taxi, Rail & Others
-2%
Whilst recognizing the importance of face-to-face time with our
integrated mobile, audio and video conferencing technology
enables our people to work more flexibly without the need to
clients, we continue to take pragmatic steps to reduce our
travel-related impacts. Across the Group, the deployment of
travel. At the country level, the main results were:
average headcount of 7% within the same period;
In India, emissions from business travel slightly reduced by 2% in
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2016, a positive achievement given a corresponding increase in
where a Mobility Plan has been developed at our new site in
Lyon, electric vehicle charging points were installed at
business travel emissions have decreased by 1% in France
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Capgemini’s headquarters in Suresnes and five car pooling only
parking spaces were established in Montbonnot;
car pooling and a Sustainable Business Travel focus week;
topic of sustainable travel have helped reduce travel emissions
per head by around 4.3%. Initiatives included the promotion of
in North America, communications and engagement on the
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long haul flights;
Whilst there has been a reduction in car and rail journeys within
the UK, this is counterbalanced by the significant increase in
in the UK, business travel emissions have increased by 1.7%.
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a sustained focus on reducing emissions from business travel in
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The Netherlands has contributed to a further 7.4% reduction in
business travel emissions since 2015. Capgemini Netherlands is
part of the Dutch Business Sustainable Mobility Pledge and
the Company car fleet is only 95 g CO
2
per km.
2016 and was awarded the Cleaner Car Contracts Award in
March, in recognition of the fact that the average emissions of
helped initiate the program
Anders Reizen (“Travel Differently”)
.
Sogeti Netherlands introduced a new “Bike to Work” Day in
Group included:
Other initiatives implemented to reduce business travel across the
an eight-week Green Commuting Challenge in Sweden, to
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promote more sustainable modes of transport;
new controls to the expenses system in Brazil – so that only
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CEO of Capgemini Brazil can approve travel expenditure once
the business unit budget has been exceeded;
budget.
been identified near each office location and a feasibility study
was completed on the introduction of a personal mobility
flight routes and new policies introduced to control these and
provide alternatives. More sustainable hotel choices have also
in Germany, an analysis has been carried out on the top five
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Waste and circular economy
largely generated from office consumables and packaging and
makes up a relatively small portion of our overall GHG emissions
As a provider of consulting and technology services, our waste is
sending Zero Waste to Landfill by 2017.
and some of our larger entities have ambitious waste reduction
targets in place, such as Capgemini India which is committed to
(less than 0.15%). Nonetheless we are taking steps to minimize
and reduce the volume of waste we generate across the Group
disposal is of course to not generate waste in the first place. The
The most efficient way of reducing our impacts from waste
development cycle for as long as possible to ensure as much
value as possible can be extracted. As a provider of services, we
concept of “circular economy” is the idea of effectively “closing the
loop” – maintaining products and materials in a positive
a few examples:
thinking has influenced the way we buy goods and our overall
waste strategy in various different ways across the Group. To give
have limited opportunities to practice circular economy principles
as part of our core business model. However, circular economy
in various Capgemini entities including the UK, India and North
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such as Netherlands and the UK has also significantly reduced
the amount of paper printed;
bottles reduces the use of disposable cups. The deployment of
follow-me-printing and double-sided printer settings in entities
America, the provision of reusable mugs and water glasses or
reused it is recycled to the latest environmental standards. As
smartphones at a competitive price for reuse and recycling. We
ensure personal data is erased and where a phone cannot be
in France, in 2016 we launched a program called
Je recycle & Je
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gagne
, through which we arrange the purchase of employees’
to re-use more than 75% of our waste Electronic Equipment
which is used to create reconditioned computers. This initiative
70% cheaper than buying a new one. In addition, since 2014, a
collaboration with the company Nodixia has enabled Capgemini
part of the same program, our people can buy reconditioned
PCs or smartphones from Capgemini employees at prices up to
projects;
also has social benefits, with Nodixia employing people with
disabilities and reinvesting part of the profits in innovative social
principles;
assessment tool during 2016 gives us a better ability to identify
and engage with suppliers who have strong circular economy
for a number of years to minimize packaging on the goods we
buy. In addition, the development and launch of a new supplier
the need for paper towels. We have been working with suppliers
in the UK, the provision of energy-efficient hand dryers avoids
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