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4 AN EFFICIENT AND RESPONSIBLE GROUP
2. Operational excellence policies
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scope concerned are ISO 50001 certified, compared to 77 a
year earlier.
and is introducing an energy management system based on
ISO 50001 certification. At the end of 2016, 85 sites of the
Saint-Gobain favors the conduct of energy audits on its sites
performance by eliminating losses, known as World Class
Manufacturing (WCM) (see chapter 4, section 2.3), is another
progress lever.
The application on all the Group’s industrial sites of a
management system designed to improve business
greenhouse gas emissions.
CO2 footprint”, was created to coordinate and increase
research and development efforts dedicated to improving the
manufacturing processes, with a view to reducing
In 2016, a cross-functional R&D program, “Improvement in our
prioritize actions to reduce CO2 emissions.
potential impact of a regulatory carbon price on the Group’s
activities, to identify opportunities for growth in low-carbon
sectors, to redirect industrial and R&D investments and to
At the beginning of 2016, an internal carbon price was
introduced to speed up the Group’s transition to low-carbon
technologies. This makes it possible to evaluate the real or
far exceed the impact associated with their production (see
chapter 2, section 2.2.2).
The results of the Lifecycle Analyses also make it possible to
demonstrate that the benefits provided by the Group’s
solutions, particularly in terms of energy consumption, often
7.4% reduction in CO2 emissions, i.e. progress of 37% toward
achieving the objective.
The goal for reducing CO2 emissions in 2010-2025 period is
set at 20%. Between 2010 and 2016, the Group recorded a
scope 3
Evaluate the value chain emissions including b)
categories forming scope 3 of the Group’s industrial activities:
In 2016, Saint-Gobain have continued to evaluate the CO2
emissions of the entire value chain of its Activities. This initial
stage made it possible, in particular, to identify the main
purchases of raw materials; ‹
transport; ‹
energy excluding scopes 1 and 2; ‹
use of products sold. ‹
lower than that of the categories identified above, i.e. less
than 5% of the total emissions (scopes 1, 2 and 3).
The impact of business travel and home-to-work travel is
the Group’s purchases.
The first evaluations of the scope 3 have estimated Soda ash
and cement are the 2 main sources of scope 3 emissions of
With regard to the use of products sold, the approach
adopted by Saint-Gobain involves two points of view:
reduce vehicle CO2 emissions;
products sold were evaluated, for example, for automobile
windows in 2016 and Saint-Gobain Sekurit is constantly
progressing in its measures to lighten windows in order to
impact: the scope 3 emissions resulting from the use of ‹
with EY, that made it possible to estimate the greenhouse
gas emissions avoided thanks to the insulation sold by the
Group (see chapter 2, section 2.2.3).
construction on the climate and to reduce the users’
energy bill. In order to highlight this contribution, in 2015
Saint-Gobain developed a methodology, in partnership
benefits: the innovating solutions developed by the Group ‹
to improve the energy efficiency of the buildings make it
possible both to reduce the negative impact of
evaluation while estimating the reliability of the methodology
and the data for each category.
In the next stage, the Group will extend the scope 3
Manage the risks connected with climate c)
change
The Group has identified its main risks connected with
climate change in order to be able to manage them.
footprint and to reduce their impact.
production risks and penalize local populations, are
incorporated into the Water policy. Saint-Gobain forms part
of the Alliance of Businesses for Water and Climate Change.
This Alliance encourages signatories to measure their water
The modification to the water systems and, in particular, the
development of water stress areas, which give rise to
supplies. The degree of exposure and vulnerability of the sites
to natural events is updated regularly together with the
action plan with a view to improving their level of prevention
and protection.
into account the increase in extreme climate events, which
specifically lead both to damage that may be caused to the
facilities or stock and to interruptions in production or
The Group deals with increased risks of loss due to climate
change (flooding, rainfall or storm) within the scope of its
industrial and distribution risks prevention policy. This takes
Limit other atmospheric emissions d)
Energy and Climate Managers coordinate this measure within
their Activities.
Saint-Gobain has undertaken an active measure to control its
atmospheric emissions other than greenhouse gases. The
precipitators or bag filters, depending on the type of
industrial facility. This equipment also makes it possible to
filter the heavy metals resulting from impurities contained in
certain raw materials.
When the primary measures are not sufficiently effective,
dust emissions are controlled by investments in electrostatic